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Cosmic Threads
Worldings
Complementarities
Live(s) on Air
Cloud Cities: mise-en-Aéroscène
Tomás Saraceno in collaboration: Web(s) of Life
Oceans of Air
Entangled Air
Silent Autumn
Particular Matter(s)
Aerocene: Free the Air. “Orbit-s” For a Post-Fossil Fuel Era
Inter + Play 2
we do not all breathe the same air
AnarcoAracnoAnacroArcano
Play-Ground
Life(s) of Webs
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
Songs for the Air
Moving Atmospheres
Event Horizon
Art Collaboration Kyoto, Online Artist Talk with Tomás Saraceno
Aerocene Forum
Who qualifies as a Subject of Rights? We no longer want to be a sacrifice zone!
Reparationen und Reparatur. Über Klimagerechtigkeit, Kolonialismus und Kapitalozän
7×7 2024
Life(s) of Webs, Panel Discussion and Film Screening
Aerocircus – eine circensische karnevaleske mit planwagen entgegen aller linearitäten
“The Crisis of Relationships” Masterclass
The Climate Hub, Climate Week NYC, Panel Discussion
Infinite Ecologies Marathon: The Prelude
Towards an Ecosocial Energy Transition: A Conversation and Manifesto
BBC HARDtalk Interview
Aria
Fly with Aerocene Pacha
Matter(s) for Conversation and Action
Invertebrate Rights for “Down to Earth”
Tomás Saraceno
Drift: A cosmic web of thermodynamic rhythms
Cloud Cities: du sol au soleil
Cloud Cities Barcelona
More-than-humans
Nggamdu.org
Ha Chi Ki
Tomás Saraceno
Lignes de possibles: Arachnophilia with Tomás Saraceno at the Festival La Manufacture d’idées
Interspecies Conversations
ON AIR
Movement
Aerographies
The Art of Noticing – Louisiana Channel Interviews Tomás Saraceno
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
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
Tomás Saraceno. Aria at Cinema Odeon
Solar Rhythms
ALBEDO
A Thermodynamic Imaginary
Spider/Web Pavilion 7
Arachnomancy Cards
Acqua Alta: en Clave de Sol
On the Disappearance of Clouds
Arachnophilia Community Meeting with MIT Professor Markus J Buehler
Sundial for Spatial Echoes
2-Dimensional Webs Archive/Maps and Traces
How to Entangle the Universe in a Spider Web
Gravitational Waves
Entangled Orbits
Tomás Saraceno at the Venice Biennale 2019
Event Horizon
Beyond the Cradle 2019: Space and the Arts
Engadin Art Talks: Grace and Gravity
Art Basel Miami – Albedo | Hans Ulrich Obrist in conversation with Tomás Saraceno
Solar Bell Ensemble
How to entangle the universe in a spider/web?
Printed Matter(s)
Webs of At-tent(s)ion
“ON AIR live with…”
Our Interplanetary Bodies
Many suns and worlds
Aerosolar Journeys
The Politics of Solar Rhythms: Cosmic Levitation
Living at the bottom of the ocean of air
Sounding the Air
Spider/Web Oracle Readings Program
Stillness in Motion — Cloud Cities
Algo-r(h)i(y)thms
Cloud City
163,000 Light Years
Passages of Time
Particular Matter(s) Jam Session
Dark Cosmic Web
Hybrid solitary… semi-social quintet… on cosmic webs…
Cosmic Jive: The Spider Sessions
Becoming Aerosolar
Hybrid Webs
Irisdescent Planet
Arachnid Orchestra. Jam Sessions
Solar Bell
Silent Autumn
Ring Bell — Solar Orchestra and the Wind Structures
On the Roof: Cloud City
On Space Time Foam
Air-Port-City/Cloud Cities
Cloud-Specific
Cloud Cities
Tomás Saraceno’s Cloud Cities and Solar Balloon Travel – Interview with The Creators Project
14 Billions (Working Title)
Observatory, Air-Port-City
Moving Beyond Materiality – MIT Visiting Artist Tomás Saraceno
In Orbit
Aerocene at COP21
Galaxies Forming along Filaments, like Droplets along the Strands of a Spider’s Web
Biospheres
Lighter than Air
Flying Garden/Air-Port-City
Poetic Cosmos of the Breath
Cumulus
Play-Ground
Spider/web vibration, divination…
for the terrestrial and cosmic web(s) of life
Evarcha arcuata, Steatoda bipunctata, Araneus diadematus, Pardosa lugubris, Holocnemus pluchei… with Nggamdu.org (Bollo Pierre ‘Tadios’, Iréné Nguea, ŋgam), Arachnophilia and Tomás Saraceno
Connect with Spider/web vibrations, playing the ground with inaudible yet sensible frequencies…
amplified through Cobblestones, five shakers in four clusters vibrating;
while Autumn leaves, fallen from the trees, were kept on-site in Gropius Hain,
sharing their microbiota, fertile play-grounds for spiders/webs;
two Park benches to unleash your shoes, and if you have more questions ask Nggamdu.org,
a Postbox for enquiries to the spiders and diviners in Somié.
One way of apprehending Earth and its ecosystems is through the medium of vibration. All living and non-living matter contains energy, a force that connects every particle of the Universe—be it a blade of grass, a stone, an insect, a human body or a comet. For the spider, its Umwelt is one of vibration. Essentially blind, the web-building spider creates an image of the world with the vibrational tremors it sends and receives through the web, functioning as an instrument for transmission and reception.
Together with spiders and their webs, scientists, and those who engage situated knowledges, Tomás Saraceno and the project-community Arachnophilia has expanded possibilities for inter- and intra-species relations. The installation for Radical Playgrounds translates onto the ground the vibrations of Evarcha arcuata, Steatoda bipunctata, Araneus diadematus, Pardosa lugubris, and Holocnemus pluchei, opening possibilities for attuning to non-human ways of being. Developed in conversation with Arachnophilia member Roland Mühlethaler, Play-Ground is a walk-in installation where cobblestones shake according to frequencies of the spiders’ and cosmic web. If playgrounds are places where we learn through play, this area offers other lessons in planetary re/creation.
Like the so-called butterfly effect, which posits a causal relation between a butterfly flapping its wings in one place and winds that swirl to form a tornado in another, this installation directs vibrations elsewhere. From the play-ground of Gropius Hain, to the spiders and diviners of Somié, Cameroon, where the practice of ŋgam dù spider divination helps humans seek knowledge about their lives. During a consultation, a species of ground-dwelling spider is asked binary questions, passed from human to nonhuman comprehension, into the language of vibration as understood by the spiders. Bollo Pierre ‘Tadios’ is one interlocutor with Heteroscodra crassipes, or ŋgam as they call her—a ground-dwelling species. Spiders may be open for questions through post box on-site where Play-Ground resides, or via the web/site nggamdu.org, initiated in 2021 with the funds of Berliner Festspiele.