![]() Developed in close collaboration Rasmus Koch Studio and KWY.studio. As an apparatus that combined the mobile with the virtual (3) cinema and other forms of moving images and gazes have been often associated with travelling. Originally conceived for the Hyundai Commission 2017 in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall. As the beliefs of the bishops and priests were set in stone, so too seems our current belief in a fixed system of commodified life. Designed with a colour scheme inspired by a selection of national banknotes, the carpet appears as a flickering bed of currency where the participants can indulge in a state of apathy. And Yet It Moves consists of a gigantic swinging steel pendulum that the audience is invited to lie under on an expansive, soft carpet. Within the paper-collage you can jump, run and last but certainly not. We are unable to even fathom alternatives to the current system, as if we were hypnotised into believing only in a market-driven ideology. And Yet It Moves is a puzzle-platformer, set in a unique world, made of ripped paper. Today the major global power – and perhaps religion – is capitalism. ![]() Threatened with torture and death by the major spiritual, political and economical force of that time, the Catholic church, Galilei was forced to retract his conclusion, but afterwards supposedly uttered the words: “And yet it moves.” ![]() Using a simple telescope as well as observing the movement of a pendulum, Galileo Galilei concluded that the Earth is rotating around the sun. We can probably attribute incredible popularity of the quote to widespread animosity against the Catholic Church, prevalent in 18.th century, bound with efforts to create martyr-like figures from the Church’s past adversaries and victims.During the 16th century, the long-held view that Earth was the stationery centre of the universe was challenged by Renaissance scientists. If he was sane, Galileo wouldn’t even consider uttering “And yet it moves” right in front of the inquisition. Learn how to apply the physical consequences of rotation to master the many tricky situations you may encounter. Within the paper-collage you can jump, run and last but certainly not least: rotate the world. If the Galileo really said these words, we can readily take for granted that it would ruin all his efforts to be proven innocent, and probably denounce him to life in prison. And Yet It Moves - And Yet It Moves is a puzzle-platformer, set in a unique world, made of ripped paper. Galileo Galilei facing the Roman Inquisition(Cristiano Banti, 1857) “The moment Galileo was set free, he looked up to the sky and down to the ground, and, while stamping his foot, in a contemplative mood, he said, Eppur si muove, that is, and yet it moves, meaning the planet earth.“ ![]() However, there is a very high probability that he either imagined this event himself, or took it from other dubious sources. 168 Share 42K views 12 years ago And Yet It Moves is an award-winning physics-based platform game in which players rotate the game world at will to solve challenging puzzles. They are not mentioned in judiciary files from the trial, neither in Galileo’s own letters and other writings.įirst recorded mention of this famous quote being said by Galileo comes from more than 120 years later, from notoriously inaccurate work “ The Italian Librar y”, written by Giuseppe Baretti. According to available evidence, Galileo Galilei never said these notoriously famous words. ![]()
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