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Heteropoda saracenoi
From arachnophobia to Arachnophilia
Flashing Toilets
Sal de Acá
tomás saracenoi
The Seeds of Flight
Play-Ground: Spider/web vibration, divination… for the terrestrial and cosmic web(s) of life
Recording Aerosolar
A letter from the communities of Salinas Grandes and Laguna de Guayatayoc to Pope Francis
Conviviality
ANIMA∞LE
Cosmic Threads
Aerocene Seoul
Live(s) on Air
Worldings
Radical Playgrounds
Fly with Pacha, Into the Aerocene
Complementarities
Live(s) on Air
Corona Australis 38.39
Life(s) of Webs
Cloud Cities: mise-en-Aéroscène
Tomás Saraceno in collaboration: Web(s) of Life
Crux Australis 68.0
Entangled Air
Oceans of Air
Silent Autumn
Aerocene: Free the Air. “Orbit-s” For a Post-Fossil Fuel Era
Particular Matter(s)
Inter + Play 2
we do not all breathe the same air
AnarcoAracnoAnacroArcano
Du sol au soleil
Webs of Life
Museo Aero Solar: for an Aerocene era
How to hear the universe in a spider/web: A live concert for/by invertebrate rights
Multicultural resonances towards a better future
Life(s) of Webs, publication launch at Palazzo Ducale
In Conversation: Tomás Saraceno
Art Collaboration Kyoto, Online Artist Talk with Tomás Saraceno
Aerocene Forum
Songs for the Air
“Climate Crisis, a Crisis of Imagination”, The G20 International Seminar on Culture and Climate Change
“Culture, cosmologies and climate: building bridges between worldviews for a sustainable future”, The G20 International Seminar on Culture and Climate Change
Moving Atmospheres
Who qualifies as a Subject of Rights? We no longer want to be a sacrifice zone!
Event Horizon
Reparationen und Reparatur. Über Klimagerechtigkeit, Kolonialismus und Kapitalozän
7×7 2024
Life(s) of Webs, Panel Discussion and Film Screening
“The Crisis of Relationships” Masterclass
The Climate Hub, Climate Week NYC, Panel Discussion
Aerocircus – eine circensische karnevaleske mit planwagen entgegen aller linearitäten
Infinite Ecologies Marathon: The Prelude
Towards an Ecosocial Energy Transition: A Conversation and Manifesto
BBC HARDtalk Interview
The Alfarcito Gathering
Matter(s) for Conversation and Action
Tomás Saraceno
Drift: A cosmic web of thermodynamic rhythms
Cloud Cities: du sol au soleil
Cloud Cities Barcelona
Particular Matter(s)
Silent Autumn / Silent Spring
Arachne’s handwoven Spider/Web Map
Lignes de possibles: Arachnophilia with Tomás Saraceno at the Festival La Manufacture d’idées
Interspecies Conversations
Spatial Echoes of Breath
Avec qui venez-vous? Vinciane Despret in conversation with Tomás Saraceno
Ha Chi Ki
The Art of Noticing – Louisiana Channel Interviews Tomás Saraceno
Free the Air: Aerocene – Tomás Saraceno holds keynote speech at Herald Design Forum
Invertebrate Rights for “Down to Earth”
Fly with Aerocene Pacha
Radio Galena
Up Close: Tomás Saraceno in conversation with Harriet A. Washington
Tomás Saraceno. Aria at Cinema Odeon
Aria
Arachnophilia Community Meeting with MIT Professor Markus J Buehler
Beyond the Cradle 2019: Space and the Arts
Engadin Art Talks: Grace and Gravity
More-than-humans
Cosmic Filaments
Tomás Saraceno
Spider/Web Pavilion 7
Arachnomancy Cards
Acqua Alta: en Clave de Sol
On the Disappearance of Clouds
Aerographies
Spider/Web Oracle Readings Program
Sundial for Spatial Echoes
Tomás Saraceno at the Venice Biennale 2019
2-Dimensional Webs Archive/Maps and Traces
ON AIR
ALBEDO
A Thermodynamic Imaginary
Solar Rhythms
Omega Centauri 3.9
Our Interplanetary Bodies
Art Basel Miami – Albedo | Hans Ulrich Obrist in conversation with Tomás Saraceno
“ON AIR live with…”
How to entangle the universe in a spider/web?
Printed Matter(s)
Webs of At-tent(s)ion
The Politics of Solar Rhythms: Cosmic Levitation
Living at the bottom of the ocean of air
Sounding the Air
Algo-r(h)i(y)thms
Passages of Time
Particular Matter(s) Jam Session
3 Airborne Self-Assemblies
Event Horizon
How to Entangle the Universe in a Spider Web
Gravitational Waves
Entangled Orbits
Aerosolar Journeys
Nebulous Thresholds
Behind the Artist’s Idea: Aerocene, Lecture at WEF, Davos, Switzerland
Aerocene at the Antarctic Biennale
Architektur als vermutete Zukunft — Symposium im Rahmen der Ausstellung »Frei Otto. Denken in Modellen«
Dark Cosmic Web
Stillness in Motion — Cloud Cities
Solar Bell Ensemble
163,000 Light Years
Cloud City: HAT-P-12
Cloud City
Many suns and worlds
Hybrid solitary… semi-social quintet… on cosmic webs…
Caelum Dust
Becoming Aerosolar
Iridescent Planet
Aerocene at COP21
Hybrid Webs
Tomás Saraceno’s Cloud Cities and Solar Balloon Travel – Interview with The Creators Project
Cosmic Jive: The Spider Sessions
Solar Bell
Ring Bell — Solar Orchestra and the Wind Structures
Cloud Cities
On the Roof: Cloud City
In Orbit
On Space Time Foam: a Conversation
On Space Time Foam
Moving Beyond Materiality – MIT Visiting Artist Tomás Saraceno
Air-Port-City/Cloud Cities
Cloudy Dunes. When Friedman Meets Bucky on Air-Port-City
Cloud-Specific
14 Billions (Working Title)
Cloud Cities Connectome
From Camogli to San Felipe, spiders weaving stars…
Galaxies Forming along Filaments, like Droplets along the Strands of a Spider’s Web
Biospheres
Tomás Saraceno
Cloudy House
Lighter than Air
Observatory, Air-Port-City
Microscale, Macroscale, and Beyond: Large-Scale Implications of Small-Scale Experiments
Poetic Cosmos of the Breath
Flying Gardens
Cumulonimbus/Air-Port-City
Cumulus
Infinite Actives
When Spheres Meet Spheres From Miami to Cuba
On Air
Aerocene Albedo, 2018
Installation view on the occasion of ‘Audemars Piguet presents Tomás Saraceno for Aerocene’ at Art Basel Miami 2018.
Courtesy Aerocene Foundation. Image by Aerocene Foundation licensed under the open-source Creative Commons CC BY-SA 4.0.
During Art Basel Miami 2018 Tomás Saraceno presented “Albedo” for Aerocene, in collaboration with Audemars Piguet. Throughout the duration of the art fair, several talks took place, activating the major themes that make up Saraceno’s practice with a special focus on Aerocene.
The large-scale temporal open-air pavilion, “Albedo”, was comprised of 40 reflective, out-turned umbrellas of various sizes, creating a hemispheric sundial on the oceanfront. The experimental structure, which is a continuation of the artist’s work with the Aerocene Foundation, harnessed solar energy to lift an Aerocene Explorer sculpture into the air whilst keeping it suspended.
On December 7th of 2018, a conversation was held between Tomás Saraceno and international curator and Serpentine Gallery artistic director Hans Ulrich Obrist. The talk created an arch that connected Saraceno’s work to the tangible, “cosmic” connections that drive him in his practice.
The two exchanged a lively and engaging conversation revealing the mutual admiration that has grown since they met, years ago, in Venice; Obrist was taking his first steps as a teacher, and Saraceno his student.
Saraceno then went on to explain the concept behind Albedo, bringing on stage the everyday version of the umbrellas to demonstrate their utility. In fact, the repurposed umbrellas were meant to be used as cooking stations, where local chefs were invited to use them, facilitating up to two-hundred meals each day throughout the course of the fair.
For Saraceno, the concept of community, appropriation and sharing is as important as the spontaneity on which they can occur. Albedo aimed to further this spirit of collaboration through cooking and eating together, adding to the community projects already upheld by Aerocene and Museo Aerosolar. Participants were welcome to join in the food being cooked or to bring their own food and experiment with the sun cookers/aero reflectors.
Given that Saraceno was working in a public space, the idea of appropriation, that passersby confronted with the sculptures, could take the idea as if it were their own, is very important to him; “this is how you connect and enlarge the community”, Saraceno explains during the talk.
For the artist, anytime a public intervention takes place, part of the process is to build awareness of the human, non-human and non-living actors that already inhabit the space. By connecting fairgoers and residents of Miami, exploring their relationship with the sun and what it would feel like to breathe in a post fossil-fuels era.
“How can we really engage in new languages?… and try to become sensitive to each other, to be able to perceive beyond our (own) world.”
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