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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
ON AIR is an emerging ecosystem that hosts a choreography of multiple voices belonging to human and non-human universes and in which works reveal common, fragile and ephemeral rhythms and trajectories linking these worlds. ON AIR is comprised of the myriad presences, animate and inanimate, that meet and cohabit within it.
The exhibition functions as an ensemble, revealing the strength of the various entities floating in the air and the ways in which they interact with us: from CO2 to cosmic dust, from radio waves to reimagined corridors of movement. Thus, when breath becomes air, the invisible histories that compose the nature of which we are a part of invite us to poetically reimagine our ways of inhabiting the world—and of being human.
As industrial extraction mines the Earth for resources, threatening entire ecologies, ON AIR celebrates new ways of thinking and new modes of knowledge production that point the way to a planet free of borders and fossil fuels. In so doing, the exhibition responds to the debate and global challenges posed by the Anthropocene, a word coined to define an epoch in which human activity leaves an impact so great that it profoundly modifies terrestrial ecosystems.
ON AIR gathers numerous collaborators and collaborations, bringing together scientific institutions, research groups, activists, local communities, visitors, musicians, philosophers, non-human animals and celestial phenomena, all of whom collectively take part in the evolution of the exhibition. Workshops, concerts, and public talks will regularly transform the exhibition into a ‘cosmic jam session’, animating ON AIR with new encounters and assemblies that appear out of this togetherness as part of nascent rhythms of interspecies solidarity …
Eclipse of the Aerocene Explorer, 2016. Performance in Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia, January 2016, during Tomás Saraceno’s artistic expedition.
W7029E16, 2018. From the series Printed Matter, printed with black carbon pm 2.5 pollution, extracted from the air. Image from a special issue of NASA Cosmic Dust Catalogue, April 1982, p85.
… the cosmic web is a vibrant superorganism—its filamentary networks of assembling dark matter providing the mesh on which the large-scale structure of the universe is composed …
Aerocene, launches in White Sands (NM, United States), 2015.
… when breath becomes air, the invisible histories that compose the nature of which we are a part of, invite us to poetically reimagine our ways of inhabiting the world—and of being human …
A Thermodynamic Imaginary, 2018. Installation view at ON AIR, Carte Blanche exhibition to Tomás Saraceno, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2018.
A Thermodynamic Imaginary, 2018. © Photography by Andrea Rossetti, 2018.
Quasi-social musical instrument IC 342 built by: 7000 Parawixia bistriata – six months, 2017. Installation view, How to Entangle the Universe in a Spider Web at Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires.
Sounding the Air, 2018. Installation view at ON AIR, carte blanche exhibition to Tomás Saraceno, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2018. With the generous support of IRCAM and FOCAL. Courtesy of the artist and neugerriemschneider (Berlin).
“The ability of the spider to use as little as possible to suspend herself in air with a barely visible architecture of threads spun out of her body is a model for suspending ourselves above the planet in bubbles energized only by the sun.”
Aerocene Tata Inti performance. Salinas Grandes, Jujuy, Argentina, August 7, 2017.
Aeolus 483.8, 2018.
Webs of At-tent(s)ion, 2018. Installation view at ON AIR, carte blanche exhibition to Tomás Saraceno, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2018. Courtesy of the artist and neugerriemschneider (Berlin).
Webs of At-tent(s)ion, 2018. Installation view at ON AIR, carte blanche exhibition to Tomás Saraceno, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2018. Courtesy of the artist and neugerriemschneider (Berlin).
What do you see when you look at an interplanetary dust particle? Is there anything at all given to sight or to thought while you contemplate it? […] Sure, you can try to conjure up the period when our solar system was coming together, condensing from gaseous and dusty clouds, their singular survivor now physically captured by you. But what do 4.6 billion years (the approximate duration that separates your “now” from space dust’s “then”) say to you?
The Politics of Solar Rhythms: Cosmic levitation, 2018. Installation view at ON AIR, carte blanche exhibition to Tomás Saraceno, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2018. With thanks to Heinrich Jaeger (Jaeger Lab, James Franck Institute at the University of Chicago). © Photography by Andrea Rossetti, 2018.
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