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Tomás Saraceno in collaboration: Web(s) of Life
Oceans of Air
Silent Autumn
Drift: A cosmic web of thermodynamic rhythms
Aerocene: Free the Air. “Orbit-s” For a Post-Fossil Fuel Era
Cloud Cities Barcelona
Matter(s) for Conversation and Action
Particular Matter(s)
From Arachnophobia to Arachnophilia
Inter + Play 2
Ha Chi Ki
we do not all breathe the same air
Nggamdu.org
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
Cloud Cities Barcelona: Rotating Selection of Books
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
Moving Atmospheres
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art – Atrium Commission
Moscow, Russia
September 11, 2020 – February 14, 2021
Curated by Iaroslav Volovod
We live in a remarkable geological moment in history, the anthropogenic era, when spontaneously over the course of millions of years, and increasingly in recent centuries, humans are becoming, intermittently yet inevitably, a geological force that changes the face of our planet. – Vladimir Vernadsky
Moving Atmospheres, the tenth Garage Atrium Commission curated by Iaroslav Volovod, is a partially mirrored sphere suspended in the air, propelling us towards an Aerocene epoch. We call towards this new era with Aerocene. For more than a decade we have been imagining a world free from the carbon, extractivism, capitalism and patriarchy that fuels some forms of life, a new way of being with the atmosphere and emissions-free travel, free from solar panels, lithium, helium, hydrogen and fossil fuels. This new era stands in stark contrast to the lingering eco-traumas of the Anthropocene, the current geological age in which some human capitalistic activity has been the dominant influence on climate and the environment.
This unique artwork, conceived of for Garage, takes us a step closer toward this new era, integrating for the first time a material that posits the sculpture as a working prototype for a balloon that could float around the world, fueled only by the air we breathe and the heat of the sun. The use of ETFE, an extremely durable translucent polymer, means the artwork performs a crucial next step in the development of aerosolar flights.
The installation Moving Atmospheres is a modeled version of a larger structure, also made of ETFE, proven to sustain long-distance flights, while floating at altitudes between 20 and 40 km. The design of this sculpture builds on scientific experiments begun by the French Centre National d’Études Spatiales (CNES), where Tomás Saraceno was artist-in-residence throughout 2012. Beginning in the late 1970s CNES began to launch Infrared radiation balloons (montgolfière infrarouge, or MIR) into the upper levels of the atmosphere. These structures are made of two different lightweight materials: transparent and mirror foils, through which the latter reflects part of the sun’s radiation preventing the air envelopes from overheating. At night, the transparent section tempers the temperature inside the envelope, absorbing infrared radiation emitted from the Earth’s surface: the solar heat that the planet accumulated during the day.
The project for Garage resonates with the most daring concepts of the Russian avant-garde, of which suggested that people and buildings—and even entire cities—should become airborne. Yet, while the visionary ideas of the Russian cosmists foreshadowed a speedy relocation to new extraterrestrial habitats, we propose an alternative that enables us to attune to the air, its movements and the role we each play as co-creators of the atmosphere. Leading cosmist Nikolai Fedorov saw the museum as fundamentally contradicting the idea of progress, and sought to unite the space of life with the space of the museum.
The future is in the air!! As we float at the bottom of the ocean of air, we move into Aerocene, an era that resists the gravity of today by keeping the temperature of the air stable so all passengers may stay aboard this journey!! As you know we need to find alternative ways to move within the planetary boundaries and out of the colonialist, extractivist and patriarchal practices that keep fueling our economies, and find alternative social, environmental and mental ecologies of practice among all of us…to open up our thermodynamic imaginations, to float within an envelope of sun-heated air, to move with the wind…towards a movement of other orbits of interaction to keep us all together on this journey aboard this flying earth!!
Tomás Saraceno