Pierre Huyghe's "Liminals," Reviewed: A Monster at Halle am Berghain

Pierre Huyghe's A.I. Art Monster Takes Over a Night Club in Berlin In "Liminals," a terrifying, overwhelming new installation, the artist erases the boundary between humans and the void. At the heart of the new piece is a fifty-five-minute film looped on an enormous screen. My preparation for "Liminals," an art work by Pierre Huyghe showing in Berlin, at Halle am Berghain, involved a small suitcase of books and articles about quantum physics, the science of sound, post-1968 France, relational aesthetics, and the sociology of techno. In the end, none of them proved useful. Among the heady possibilities dangled by the press release was an environment that would feature video, sound, light, and dust; exist outside of space and time; and operate in a state of quantum flux where "every moment is a maybe."