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Tomás Saraceno in collaboration: Web(s) of Life
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 Barcelona
Matter(s) for Conversation and Action
Particular Matter(s)
From Arachnophobia to Arachnophilia
Inter + Play 2
Ha Chi Ki
we do not all breathe the same air
Nggamdu.org
Lignes de possibles: Arachnophilia with Tomás Saraceno at the Festival La Manufacture d’idées
AnarcoAracnoAnacroArcano
Du sol au soleil
Webs of Life
Movement
Museo Aero Solar: for an Aerocene era
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
The Art of Noticing – Louisiana Channel Interviews Tomás Saraceno
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
How to hear the universe in a spider/web: A live concert for/by invertebrate rights
Songs for the Air
Moving Atmospheres
Event Horizon
Aria
Fly with Aerocene Pacha
Invertebrate Rights for “Down to Earth”
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
Algo-r(h)i(y)thms
Tomás Saraceno at the Venice Biennale 2019
More-than-humans
Arachnophilia Community Meeting with MIT Professor Markus J Buehler
Beyond the Cradle 2019: Space and the Arts
Engadin Art Talks: Grace and Gravity
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
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
A Thermodynamic Imaginary
Hybrid Webs
How to Entangle the Universe in a Spider Web
Silent Autumn
Gravitational Waves
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
Cloud Cities Barcelona: Rotating Selection of Books
Cosmic Jive: The Spider 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
Spider/Web Pavilion 7
Oracle Readings, Weaving Arachnomancy, Synanthropic Futures: At-ten(t)sion to invertebrate rights!
Spider/webs are nonhuman pavilions, transcending national representation. Weaving in the interstices between branches and door frames after a rain shower, they are oracles of living bodies, scripts of fortune divination, always in dislocation between national pavilions. Entangling cooperative constellations, these multi-being life forms trace maps of attunement to the astral scores.
In the context of the current ecological crisis, named the Sixth Mass Extinction, invertebrates such as arachnids and insects are disappearing at an accelerated pace, with major consequences for the environment and ecosystems. While invertebrates make up more than 95% of animal species, most countries lack ethical guidelines and regulations regarding their nonhuman rights.
Intensive agro-farming and pesticides, global warming and the industrial exploitation of resources add up to the widespread arachnophobia nourished by horror movies and other negative representations of invertebrates, accelerating their biological annihilation and perpetuating an ecological disaster.
Against the mass commodification of nature and the self-destructive cultural and economic power structures of the present, Spider/Web Pavilion 7 engages with different forms of knowledge and echoes spider divination methods practiced in different parts of the world. It celebrates the ability to forecast meteorological events, or extraordinary ones such as tsunamis, through the observation of other species’ behaviour.
Spider/webs are synanthropic: by living among us, they blur the boundaries between inside and outside, between nature and culture and between what is alive and what is not. The Spider/Web Pavilions are an invitation to attune to our sympoietic futures, the radical interconnectedness of all things, both living and nonliving.
Spider/webs are the mouths through which the spider eats and the oracle speaks. The oracle is a messenger between perceptual worlds, transcending the reciprocal blindness between spider/webs and humans. Extending your senses towards new forms of embodied cognition, Spider/Web Pavilion 7 tries to attune to a non-verbal language that amplifies our response-ability to each other. Its floor shakes at very low frequencies, at the rhythm of vibrating spider/webs, inaudible and yet sensible for the voices we might need to hear.
The sun’s rays are guided by a series of mirrors, directly illuminating the spider/web, extending its reverberation into a cosmic web of connections. Over the course of the Biennale Arte 2019, spider/webs from the Giardini and the Venetian Lagoon may appear and leave new threads. As a sensitive interface constantly modified by different sociabilities, the pavilion serves as a space of care and attention, to multiply perspectives and weave a participatory storytelling against extraction and extinction.
Amid the hills and galaxies, starlight exposure, she sews together earth and sky to illuminate the night and help wandering beings find their paths. Please remember that baser passions could interrupt her balance of ecosystemic forces when asking your question.
The Arachnomancy Cards (2019) are an invitation to attune to our sympoietic futures: created on the occasion of the 58th International Art Exhibition – Biennale Arte 2019, curated by Ralph Rugoff, they celebrate the radical interconnectedness of all things, both living and nonliving.
This deck of 33 cards is an instrument of mediation, one of the many ways to consult spider/web oracles. Spider/webs are the mouths through which the spider eats and the oracle speaks. The oracle is a messenger between perceptual worlds, transcending the reciprocal blindness between life forms. Spider/webs weave worlds of vibration in tune to the astral scores. Sense new threads of connectivity, or else face the eternal silence of extinction. As life draws lines on your hands, so the spider draws lines on your future. The Arachnomancy reading is written through the silken threads of the spider/web…
You are invited to participate in this chorus of voices, to join in the proliferation of spider/web stories and worlds, to weave the fabric of an Arachnocene! Download the Arachnomancy App (iOS/Android) to help you find the other Spider/Web Pavilions and encounter their oracles, joining a collective exercise of mapping against extinction.
For more information visit www.arachnophilia.net, a living archive of coexistences.