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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
Particular Matter(s), 2021
Light beam, cosmic dust, PM2.5 (particulate matter), stellar wind, air movement, kinesthetic feedback, sonic waves
Dimensions variable
What is circulating throughout the very air we breathe, and who has the right to breathe, knowing that not all breathe the same air?
The air is constantly in motion. A cubic inch of air holds 25 billion molecules, colliding and dispersing faster than the speed of sound. Hidden in the dust we breathe is particulate matter 2.5 (PM2.5), or pollution particles less than 2.5 micrometers in diameter, a deadly substance created by burning fossil fuels. PM2.5 is the most dangerous of the particulate matter in our atmosphere because of its size: its small diameter means it is able to pass through our body’s defenses, infiltrating our lungs and blood streams. How will we free the air from particulate matter?
In Particular Matter(s), a beam of light illuminates the air as it is: dust particles of domestic, earthly, and cosmic origin whose trajectories are influenced by visitors’ movements. A call to action in a moment of ongoing ecological crises, Particular Matter(s) is an exercise in attunement to bodies and forces on air, inviting us to heighten our capacity to notice that which floats around and moves within us. It also offers an apt example of situated knowledge: though the beam of light is the same, it reveals new information floating in the air each time the work is turned on for new visitors to experience.
For more than a decade the artwork Particular Matter(s) has been exhibited internationally, evolving and expanding since it was first shown in 2014.
Initially, the movement of the dust particles were sonified by an optical tracker, resulting in sound waves, acoustic turbulences, and sympoetic cosmic choreographies. The artist developed a groundbreaking methodology for the flow detection of miniscule particles floating in the air based on stereoscopic camera vision. Cameras would record the position and velocity of the particles in real time as they traveled through space, transforming them into musical tones that were voiced through a set of speakers spread out across the space.
Some interactions of the artwork were also exhibited with spider/webs. The frequencies produced by the choreographies of particles of dust resounded in the threads of a spider/web, while the vibratory movements produced by the spider in its web were amplified through a speaker that was positioned below the beam of light. This reverberation further animated the particles, causing fluctuations and collisions.
multiple future
1st Ennova Art Biennale. Langfang, China. 2024.
27.10.2024 – 30.04.2025
Complementarities
Red Brick Art Museum. Beijing, China.
22.03 – 07.10.2024
Entangled Air
Haggerty Museum of Art. Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
20.01 – 21.05.2023
Oceans of Air
Museum of Old and New Art (MONA). Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
17.12.2022 – 24.07.2023
Unknown Unknowns
Triennale di Milano. Milan, Italy
15.07.2022 – 8.01.2023
Particular Matter(s)
The Shed. New York, New York, USA.
11.02 – 17.04.2022
We do not all breathe the same air
neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany.
18.09 – 31.10.2021
All exhibited as:
Particular Matter(s), 2021
Light beam, cosmic dust, PM2.5 (particulate matter), stellar wind, air movement, kinesthetic feedback, sonic waves
Dimensions variable
Song for the Air
Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt. Darmstadt, Germany.
25.09.2020 – 28.03.2021
Exhibited as:
Songs for the Air, 2020
Live performance for the duration of Songs for the Air, with light beam, cosmic dust, terrestrial dust, PM2.5, PM10, black carbon, stellar wind, sonic waves, 20 loudspeakers, one set of passive bass speakers, 3D camera system, video camera, video projector, computer, projected score, molton curtain, illuminated circle, exit sign, museum participants.
Dimensions variable
Aria
Palazzo Strozzi. Florence, Italy.
22.02.2020-01.11.2020
Exhibited as:
Particular Matter(s) Jam Session, 2020
Local live spiders already living in Palazzo Strozzi, spider silk, carbon fiber, light beam, cosmic dust, terrestrial dust, pm2.5, pm10, black carbon, stellar wind, sonic waves, 3D tracking software, computer, video camera, speakers, video projector.
Dimensions variable
ON AIR: carte blanche à Tomás Saraceno
Palais de Tokyo. Paris, France.
17.10.2018-06.01.2019
Exhibited as:
Particular Matter(s) Jam Session, 2018
Nephila senegalensis and Cyrtophora citricola silk. carbon frame. lightbeam, cosmic dust. terrestrial dust. stellar wind. sonic waves. video camera. loudspeakers, video projector.
Dimensions variable
How to entangle the universe in a spider web
Museo de Arte Moderno (MAMBA). Buenos Aires, Argentina.
06.04.2017-18.03.2018
Exhibited as:
The Cosmic Dust Spider Web Orchestra, 2017
Nephila senegalensis silk, carbon frame, light beam, meteoritic dust, stellar wind, sonic waves, 24 loudspeakers, one set of passive bass speakers, 3D camera system, video camera, video projector, dark matter detector software
Dimensions variable
Gravity. Imaging The Universe After Einstein
MAXXI, Rome, Italy.
02.12.2017 – 06.05.2018
Exhibited as:
Echoes of the Arachnid Orchestra with Cosmic Dust, 2017
Nephila senegalensis silk, carbon frame, light beam, meteoritic dust, stellar wind, sonic waves, loudspeakers, one set of passive bass speakers, 3D camera system, video camera, video, projectors, real time tracking software.
Dimensions variable
Floating Worlds
14th Lyon Biennale for Contemporary Art. Lyon, France.
20.09.2017 – 7.01.2018
Exhibited as:
Hyperweb of the Present, 2017
Two light flashes (future light cone, past light cone), space, time, an endemic observer – living spider, a hybrid web by Nephila senegalensis, playful playback mechanism.
Dimensions variable
Our Interplanetary Bodies
Asia Culture Centre (ACC). Gwangju, South Korea.
15.07.2017 – 25.03.2018
Exhibited as:
The Cosmic Dust Spider Web Orchestra, 2017
Nephila senegalensis silk, carbon frame, light beam, meteoritic dust, stellar wind, sonic waves, 24 loudspeakers, one set of passive bass speakers, 3D camera system, video camera, video projector, dark matter detector software
Dimensions variable
The Anthropocene-Project. A Report.
Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW). Berlin, Germany.
16.10 – 8.12.2014
Exhibited as:
Cosmic Dust and the Breathing Ensemble – Havoc music by Porus Chondrite, 2014
light beam, cosmic dust, stellar wind, sonic waves, video camera, loudspeakers, video projector
Dimensions variable
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