Stills from Libby Heaney, Sip My-Our Multiverse, and Nip My-Our Multiverse, 2026.
Sip My-Our Multiverse, 2026, 4k video portrait with stereo sound, 4min06
Nip My-Our Multiverse, 2026, 4k video portrait with stereo sound, 3min48
Sip/Nip My-Our Multiverse, both 2026, continues Heaney’s ongoing inquiry into quantum forms of self as unbounded, unstable, paradoxical, multiple and deeply interconnected.
Extending from Nibble My Multiverse, 2025, these works move further into the distributed and intimate, approaching the self not as a fixed entity but as something relational and continuously forming. Rather than illustrating quantum science, Heaney uses quantum materially and conceptually as a prism through which to reimagine seeming fixed identities. For Heaney, quantum is a way of feeling through contradictory entanglements without flattening them to a singular form.
Selected clip from Sip My-Our Multiverse, 2026. 25 seconds, with or without sound. Courtesy of Libby Heaney.
Each work is anchored by a spoken poetic narrative that unfolds as both confession and incantation. The voices overlap and fold into one another, tracing a self that exceeds the body, unstable and overflowing, spilling outward and merging with others and environments. Disembodied lips appear on screen, dissolving into and emerging from natural, cosmic and bodily forms. The subconscious becomes expansive and ecological, continuous with the wildness of nature itself.
Visually, the works are composed through layered moving images: AI-generated forms that appear viscous and fleshy, continuously morphing between states of matter and meaning. These are interwoven with close-up footage of Heaney’s mouth – a portal – where language and body become sites of transformation and entanglement.
Selected clips from Nip My-Our Multiverse, 2026. 25 second, with or without sound. Courtesy of Libby Heaney.
Across both videos, images pulse in and out of visibility, modulated by wave-like patterns derived from quantum entanglement data generated on an IBM quantum computer. This dynamic structuring resists stable composition, producing a fluctuating perceptual field in which no single layer dominates. The result is a space that feels at once intimate and disorienting, where boundaries between self and other, body and environment, observer and observed begin to dissolve.
Sip and Nip operate as entangled counterparts: two partial perspectives that never resolve into a unified whole. Together, they suggest a mode of being in which identity is distributed across multiple, coexisting states, continuously shaped through relation.
Stills from Libby Heaney, Sip My-Our Multiverse, and Nip My-Our Multiverse, 2026.
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