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Matter(s) for Conversation and Action

Particular Matter(s)

Silent Autumn

From Arachnophobia to Arachnophilia

Inter + Play 2

Ha Chi Ki

we do not all breathe the same air

Nggàm dù

Lignes de possibles: Arachnophilia with Tomás Saraceno at the Festival La Manufacture d’idées

AnarcoAracnoAnacroArcano

Du sol au soleil

Webs of Life

Movement

Museo Aero Solar: for an Aerocene era

Interspecies Conversations

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

The Art of Noticing – Louisiana Channel Interviews Tomás Saraceno

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

How to hear the universe in a spider/web: A live concert for/by invertebrate rights

Songs for the Air

Moving Atmospheres

Event Horizon

Aria
Fly with Aerocene Pacha

Invertebrate Rights for “Down to Earth”

Spider/Web Pavilion 7

Arachnomancy Cards

Acqua Alta: en Clave de Sol

On the Disappearance of Clouds

Tomás Saraceno. Aria at Cinema Odeon

Sundial for Spatial Echoes

2-Dimensional Webs Archive/Maps and Traces

Algo-r(h)i(y)thms

Tomás Saraceno at the Venice Biennale 2019
More-than-humans

Arachnophilia Community Meeting with MIT Professor Markus J Buehler

Beyond the Cradle 2019: Space and the Arts

Engadin Art Talks: Grace and Gravity

How to entangle the universe in a spider/web?

Printed Matter(s)

Webs of At-tent(s)ion

Art Basel Miami – Albedo | Hans Ulrich Obrist in conversation with Tomás Saraceno

ON AIR

The Politics of Solar Rhythms: Cosmic Levitation

Living at the bottom of the ocean of air

Sounding the Air

“ON AIR live with…”

Spider/Web Oracle Readings Program

Algo-r(h)i(y)thms

Passages of Time

Particular Matter(s) Jam Session

Solar Rhythms

A Thermodynamic Imaginary

Hybrid Webs

How to Entangle the Universe in a Spider Web
Silent Autumn
Gravitational Waves

Our Interplanetary Bodies

Aerosolar Journeys

Stillness in Motion — Cloud Cities

163,000 Light Years

Tomás Saraceno’s Cloud Cities and Solar Balloon Travel – Interview with The Creators Project

Cosmic Jive: The Spider Sessions

Solar Bell

In Orbit

Ring Bell — Solar Orchestra and the Wind Structures

Moving Beyond Materiality – MIT Visiting Artist Tomás Saraceno

On the Roof: Cloud City

On Space Time Foam

Cloud Cities

14 Billions (Working Title)

Galaxies Forming along Filaments, like Droplets along the Strands of a Spider’s Web

Observatory, Air-Port-City

Poetic Cosmos of the Breath

Flying Garden/Air-Port-City
The Argyroneta aquatica is a spider that lives mostly underwater. Contrary to most aquatic animals, it is not equipped with gills. Its breathing apparatus comes from terrestrial life forms.
To survive underwater, the Argyroneta aquatica dwells in a diving bell embracing its abdomen and most of its legs. The bead is secured with a few threads of silk in order to resist contact with plants or predators.
Over time, the oxygen content of the diving bell eventually becomes depleted, at which point the spider returns to the surface to collect more air to replenish its underwater home.
Rather than separating the aqueous from the atmospheric, this floating droplet of air is a permeable membrane across which the junction of those two worlds occurs. It allows the spider to breathe underwater.
This unique behaviour tackles the capacity of certain species to transform their way of life to adapt to new environments. The underwater spider is an invitation for biospeculation. It questions the possible future of our environment. Will humans someday be able to live in and with the air?
Living at the bottom of the ocean of air, 2018 (excerpt)
Single-channel video, 16:9, FullHD, black and white, Dolby 5.1 sound, 8’36’’.
Courtesy of the artist, Andersen’s, Copenhagen.
The artwork benefits from the support of Christian Just Linde.