Ent- (many paths version)

Ent- (many paths version), 2022, playable (gaming) experience with single screen, Xbox controller, gaming PC, Unreal engine 4 environment with quantum computing; duration variable. 

Ent- (many paths version) is a playable adaptation of Heaney’s immersive projection Ent- 2022.  Ent- (many paths version) refers to the unwritten future of non-binary quantum tech & its inherent ability to dissolve the seemingly binary systems. 

In this playable version, audience members use an Xbox controller to navigate plural landscapes, encounter entangled forms & quantum generated hybrid creatures. Heaney is interested in hybridity and monsters as they are quantum-like as they straddle categories and sit outside the ‘natural’ order of things.

The computer game adaptation of Heaney’s immersive artwork Ent- allows audiences to experience and play through the inner workings of quantum physics – the innate queerness at the heart of all matter. Deconstructing Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights, this non-binary universe portrays the incredible possibilities of quantum computing to dissolve and entangle seemingly fixed identities. 

The playable artwork brings audiences closer to quantum’s materiality, to see and feel what it means to be in a superposition – in two or more states at once. These new quantum ways of being are starting points to reimagine our material existence and contemplate possible futures away from binary categorisations. 

Ent- (many paths version) was commissioned by Nahmad Contemporary for their Calder and the 21st Century exhibition.

Ent- (many paths version) was exhibited at Nahmad Contemporary, New York, 2022; Gazelli Art House, London, 2023; CPH:DOX, Copenhagen, 2023; 0xCollection, Prague, 2023, HEK, Basel, 2024 and Phoenix Art Space x Brighton Festival, Brighton, 2024.