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Cosmic Threads
Worldings
Complementarities
Live(s) on Air
Cloud Cities: mise-en-Aéroscène
Tomás Saraceno in collaboration: Web(s) of Life
Oceans of Air
Entangled Air
Silent Autumn
Particular Matter(s)
Aerocene: Free the Air. “Orbit-s” For a Post-Fossil Fuel Era
Inter + Play 2
we do not all breathe the same air
AnarcoAracnoAnacroArcano
Play-Ground
Life(s) of Webs
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
Songs for the Air
Moving Atmospheres
Event Horizon
Art Collaboration Kyoto, Online Artist Talk with Tomás Saraceno
Aerocene Forum
Who qualifies as a Subject of Rights? We no longer want to be a sacrifice zone!
Reparationen und Reparatur. Über Klimagerechtigkeit, Kolonialismus und Kapitalozän
7×7 2024
Life(s) of Webs, Panel Discussion and Film Screening
Aerocircus – eine circensische karnevaleske mit planwagen entgegen aller linearitäten
“The Crisis of Relationships” Masterclass
The Climate Hub, Climate Week NYC, Panel Discussion
Infinite Ecologies Marathon: The Prelude
Towards an Ecosocial Energy Transition: A Conversation and Manifesto
BBC HARDtalk Interview
Aria
Fly with Aerocene Pacha
Matter(s) for Conversation and Action
Invertebrate Rights for “Down to Earth”
Tomás Saraceno
Drift: A cosmic web of thermodynamic rhythms
Cloud Cities: du sol au soleil
Cloud Cities Barcelona
More-than-humans
Nggamdu.org
Ha Chi Ki
Tomás Saraceno
Lignes de possibles: Arachnophilia with Tomás Saraceno at the Festival La Manufacture d’idées
Interspecies Conversations
ON AIR
Movement
Aerographies
The Art of Noticing – Louisiana Channel Interviews Tomás Saraceno
Avec qui venez-vous? Vinciane Despret in conversation with Tomás Saraceno
Prototype of Maratus volans (peacock spider), Web of Life (2020) | for a real Augmented Reality
Radio Galena
Free the Air: Aerocene – Tomás Saraceno holds keynote speech at Herald Design Forum
Up Close: Tomás Saraceno in conversation with Harriet A. Washington
Tomás Saraceno. Aria at Cinema Odeon
Solar Rhythms
ALBEDO
A Thermodynamic Imaginary
Spider/Web Pavilion 7
Arachnomancy Cards
Acqua Alta: en Clave de Sol
On the Disappearance of Clouds
Arachnophilia Community Meeting with MIT Professor Markus J Buehler
Sundial for Spatial Echoes
2-Dimensional Webs Archive/Maps and Traces
How to Entangle the Universe in a Spider Web
Gravitational Waves
Entangled Orbits
Tomás Saraceno at the Venice Biennale 2019
Event Horizon
Beyond the Cradle 2019: Space and the Arts
Engadin Art Talks: Grace and Gravity
Art Basel Miami – Albedo | Hans Ulrich Obrist in conversation with Tomás Saraceno
Solar Bell Ensemble
How to entangle the universe in a spider/web?
Printed Matter(s)
Webs of At-tent(s)ion
“ON AIR live with…”
Our Interplanetary Bodies
Many suns and worlds
Aerosolar Journeys
The Politics of Solar Rhythms: Cosmic Levitation
Living at the bottom of the ocean of air
Sounding the Air
Spider/Web Oracle Readings Program
Stillness in Motion — Cloud Cities
Algo-r(h)i(y)thms
Cloud City
163,000 Light Years
Passages of Time
Particular Matter(s) Jam Session
Dark Cosmic Web
Hybrid solitary… semi-social quintet… on cosmic webs…
Cosmic Jive: The Spider Sessions
Becoming Aerosolar
Hybrid Webs
Irisdescent Planet
Arachnid Orchestra. Jam Sessions
Solar Bell
Silent Autumn
Ring Bell — Solar Orchestra and the Wind Structures
On the Roof: Cloud City
On Space Time Foam
Air-Port-City/Cloud Cities
Cloud-Specific
Cloud Cities
Tomás Saraceno’s Cloud Cities and Solar Balloon Travel – Interview with The Creators Project
14 Billions (Working Title)
Observatory, Air-Port-City
Moving Beyond Materiality – MIT Visiting Artist Tomás Saraceno
In Orbit
Aerocene at COP21
Galaxies Forming along Filaments, like Droplets along the Strands of a Spider’s Web
Biospheres
Lighter than Air
Flying Garden/Air-Port-City
Poetic Cosmos of the Breath
Cumulus
Cloud Specific
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
09.09.2011 – 09.01.2012
Cloud Specific transformed the Kemper Art Museum into a laboratory space, reflecting both materially and theoretically the artist’s experimental ethos—a form of spatial practice driven by the belief that the most significant innovations emerge not from within singular disciplines but by working across realms of expertise. Saraceno’s interdisciplinary process has led him to successful collaborations with scientists at NASA as well as with a range of engineers, chemists, botanists, astrophysicists, and spider researchers, among others. The dialogues he enters into and the ideas sparked by his practice-based research are as much a part of the work as the finished art objects and installations he produces.
Tomás Saraceno’s cloud sculptures and installations stem from his long-standing artistic inquiry—Cloud Cities—a proposal for a common imaginary for an ethical re-alliance with the environment, the planet and the cosmic/web of life beyond Anthropocentrism. The cluster-like artworks are composed of a number of interconnected modules constructed with black and reflective panels, forming constellations out of geometric structures inspired by the Weaire-Phelan structure, evocative of aggregating foam or soap bubbles.
The reflective and iridescent surfaces of the modules become illuminative complements to the natural environment in which the cloud is installed, redirecting and expanding the reflections of the sky and its ever-changing, boundary-blurring weather patterns.
Some clouds have web-like structures set with them, resonating with the woven habitats of spiders and the cosmic web. This analogy gives rise to imagery of the structure of the observable universe, reminding us that we are all floating on cosmic clouds of galaxies, the perfect major fields of inspiration for Saraceno. These cloud-like shapes host delicate filaments, interlaced in a complex system. The further metaphor considers asterisms, constellations of cosmic celestial bodies and their everlasting “deep-time” impression. Visually transparent, it sheds a light on our own entangled and interdependent being on Earth and the cosmos.