New Aga Khan Museum exhibition combines art and science to tell Covid-19 story through ‘Dance of the Molecules’
New Aga Khan Museum exhibition combines art and science to tell COVID-19 story through ‘Dance of the Molecules’
Toronto Star
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Article Author: New Aga Khan Museum exhibition combines art and science to tell Covid-19 story through ‘Dance of the Molecules’
Media Source: The Toronto Star (Canada)
Date: 11 March 2021
Visual artist Radha Chaddah has always had an abiding interesting in science so when artistic opportunities dried up as the pandemic hit, Chaddah got inspired. The result is a four-act dance performance - the first part "IAM: Dance of the Molecules" premiered as a digital exhibition on the Aga Khan Museum (AKM)’s website on 5…
Visual artist Radha Chaddah has always had an abiding interesting in science so when artistic opportunities dried up as the pandemic hit, Chaddah got inspired. The result is a four-act dance performance - the first part "IAM: Dance of the Molecules" premiered as a digital exhibition on the Aga Khan Museum (AKM)’s website on 5 March and runs for eight weeks. Subsequent acts - human, planetary and universal, all using the Covid virus as an entry point - will be unveiled over the coming months until the final instalment in December 2022. Following that, all four acts will be presented as a 50-minute live performance. Amirali Alibhai, head of performing arts at AKM, said the museum had been looking for ways to collaborate with Chaddah pre-pandemic.