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Worldings
Complementarities
Play-Ground
Life(s) of Webs
Live(s) on Air
Tomás Saraceno in collaboration: Web(s) of Life
Entangled Air
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: du sol au soleil
Particular Matter(s)
Cloud Cities Barcelona
Matter(s) for Conversation and Action
Inter + Play 2
From Arachnophobia to Arachnophilia
we do not all breathe the same air
Ha Chi Ki
AnarcoAracnoAnacroArcano
Nggamdu.org
Lignes de possibles: Arachnophilia with Tomás Saraceno at the Festival La Manufacture d’idées
Du sol au soleil
Webs of Life
Museo Aero Solar: for an Aerocene era
Movement
How to hear the universe in a spider/web: A live concert for/by invertebrate rights
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
Radio Galena
The Art of Noticing – Louisiana Channel Interviews Tomás Saraceno
Free the Air: Aerocene – Tomás Saraceno holds keynote speech at Herald Design Forum
Up Close: Tomás Saraceno in conversation with Harriet A. Washington
Songs for the Air
Moving Atmospheres
Event Horizon
Aria
Fly with Aerocene Pacha
Invertebrate Rights for “Down to Earth”
Tomás Saraceno
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
More-than-humans
Tomás Saraceno at the Venice Biennale 2019
Arachnophilia Community Meeting with MIT Professor Markus J Buehler
Beyond the Cradle 2019: Space and the Arts
Engadin Art Talks: Grace and Gravity
Tomás Saraceno
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
Aerographies
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
ALBEDO
A Thermodynamic Imaginary
How to Entangle the Universe in a Spider Web
Hybrid Webs
Gravitational Waves
Silent Autumn
Entangled Orbits
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
Arachnid Orchestra. Jam 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
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.