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Songs for the Air

Radio Galena

Invertebrate Rights for “Down to Earth”

Moving Atmospheres

Event Horizon

Aria
Fly with Aerocene Pacha

Printed Matter(s)

Arachnomancy Cards
More-than-humans

Acqua Alta: en Clave de Sol

Spider/Web Pavilion 7

Tomás Saraceno at the Venice Biennale 2019

Arachnophilia Community Meeting with MIT Professor Markus J Buehler

On the Disappearance of Clouds

Spider/Web Oracle Readings Program

Sundial for Spatial Echoes

ON AIR

Webs of At-tent(s)ion

Beyond the Cradle 2019: Space and the Arts

Engadin Art Talks: Grace and Gravity

A Thermodynamic Imaginary

The Politics of Solar Rhythms: Cosmic Levitation

Living at the bottom of the ocean of air

Sounding the Air

Particular Matter(s) Jam Session

How to entangle the universe in a spider/web?

Art Basel Miami – Hans Ulrich Obrist in conversation with Tomás Saraceno

“ON AIR live with…”

Algo-r(h)i(y)thms

Hybrid Webs
Gravitational Waves

Our Interplanetary Bodies

Aerosolar Journeys

Stillness in Motion — Cloud Cities

How to Entangle the Universe in a Spider Web

163,000 Light Years

Cosmic Jive: The Spider Sessions

Ring Bell — Solar Orchestra and the Wind Structures

Solar Bell

In Orbit

14 Billions (Working Title)

On Space Time Foam

Poetic Cosmos of the Breath

Galaxies Forming along Filaments, like Droplets along the Strands of a Spider’s Web

Flying Garden/Air-Port-City
“The subliminal depths of radio are charged with the resonating echoes of tribal horns and antique drums. This is inherent in the very nature of this medium, with its power to turn the psyche and society into a single echo chamber.” —Marshall McLuhan.
Radio Galena is a mineral sonic sculpture. It comprises a stone wrapped in wire, which is not connected to the electrical grid. It uses neither batteries nor solar panels, and yet, it can function as a radio in certain parts of the atmosphere, entering into reverberation and receiving radio waves. It acts like a traditional crystal receptor, one of the first radio receptors ever invented. This “talking stone” focuses our attention on early and neglected forms of sound technology and tunes us into ecological frequencies. In the recent past, crystal radios were used as clandestine receivers in times of war, when regular radios were confiscated from civilians. Radio Galena can receive signals from the Mapuche radio station, which is used by a group of indigenous inhabitants in southern Argentina who advocate for their legal claim to land autonomy.
The concept of this stone reflects the multiplicity of our existence on Earth, and its signals can sometimes sound like a murmured warning against its undermining temporariness. One can imagine that geological strata are forming the book of Earth’s history. Each stone then becomes one sentence telling the history of its deep time. This radio stone questions us: How could the Earth reverberate differently if we attuned to “geological broadcasting” in a post–fossil fuel regime?

Radio Galena
Galena Stone, copper wire, epoxy resin, high impedance headphones, AM Transmitter.
Tomás Saraceno thanks Rafael Railaf and Mapuche Foundation FOUL.
Courtesy of the artist and Radio Mapuche at Multicultural Amsterdam Radio and Television,
Andersen’s, Copenhagen; Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York/Los Angeles; Pinksummer Contemporary Art, Genoa; Esther Schipper, Berlin.
© Tomás Saraceno
With Radio Galena, Tomás Saraceno was the 2017 recipient of the OGR Award, the sound art prize awarded by Artissima.