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Web(s) of Life
Spiders in Motion, Rainy Commotion
Aerocene Newspaper II
Oceans of Air
From Arachnophobia to Arachnophilia
Particular Matter(s)
Tomás Saraceno: Aria
Event Horizon
Songs for the Air
Aerocene — Movements for the Air, Munich Landing
PALAIS #28: ON AIR
Marble Breeze
How to Entangle the Universe in a Spider Web
Aerographies
Our Interplanetary Bodies
Aerosolar Journeys
Notes on Aerocene
Aerocene
Flying Plaza Work Journal 2012 – 2016
Arachnid Orchestra. Jam Sessions
Aerocene. Exhibition Road
163,000 Light Years
Becoming Aerosolar
Aerocene Newspaper I
Cloud Specific
Cosmic Jive: The Spider Sessions
Cloud Cities
14 Billions (Working Title)
CLOUD CITIES / AIR-PORT-CITY
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