Making-of Cascade, 2018

“During his CERN residency, Yunchul Kim learned how physicists have detected cosmic rays using Geiger–Müller tubes. When placed one above the other, the gas-filled ionization detectors can register the downward trajectories of muons produced when charged particles from space strike the atmosphere.

Inspired, Kim decided to build a far more visually pleasing set of particle detectors, in the form of a trio of networked structures. The trio, called Cascade, aims to portray the invisible events of the cosmic world. “I am very interested in these cosmic events which cannot be perceptible,” Kim says.”

Read more on Kim’s practice here.

INSTALLATION COMPONENTS

“When cosmic rays come to Earth and reach its atmosphere, they collide with an atomic nucleus in the air and produce secondary particles which are called air showers, like a waterfall pouring down to the ground. I am interested in the implications of these events from the invisible world and their relation to my works–both semantically and physically.” Yunchul Kim

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EXPERIMENTS IN THE STUDIO

“Now, in material engineering, we have structure color made by the structure of molecules. In science labs such structure color meets various synthetic materials, resulting in the creation of materials that change color from temperature variation or stretching.

This experience of new colors and materials can provide inspiration, not only for myself but for other artists too.” Yunchul Kim

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