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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
Composed of works in diverse media, the exhibition at neugerriemschneider, Berlin surveys the artist’s social, scientific and philosophical enquiries into breath, spirit and regeneration. Sensing cosmic forces, inanimate particles and living beings, Saraceno’s exhibition portrays environmental concerns while celebrating the complexity of existence and looking for ways to live together differently.
The entire exhibition is powered by renewable energy via six solar panels that have been installed on the roof of the gallery. neugerriemschneider’s opening hours will also shift with daylight, from 11 am – 6 pm through September to 10 am – 5 pm through October, optimizing solar radiation to illuminate certain parts of the exhibition with direct sunlight.
As part of the exhibition a special screening of Pacha, from the film and photography series Fly with Aerocene Pacha, will take place at Kino International (Karl-Marx-Allee 33, 10178 Berlin) at 10:30am Sunday, September 19, during Gallery Week Berlin. The screening will be followed by a discussion with the artist, Antonia Alampi and Ute Meta Bauer.
Entering the exhibition from the gallery’s usual exit is a symbolic gesture by the artist to suggest that ‘point-of-no return’ discourses about our fragile world can be overcome.
We do not all breathe the same air (2018-ongoing), the continuing artwork from which the exhibition earns its title, has been carried out in numerous cities around the world. Visualizing air quality, the spectrum of dots in varying hues are samples of what we breathe. These dots reveal the spatial, racial, social, and political factors that determine whether one can exercise their right to clean air.
This unequal distribution is more important than ever, as environmental racism has proven once again to have disastrous, deathly consequences during the COVID-19 crisis.
Though inherently a virus cannot discriminate, the social systems in place can, and they guarantee that some will be infected while others will not and some will recover while others will not.
We do not all breathe the same air, 2018- ongoing.
Installation view at We do not all breathe the same air,
neugerriemschneider, Berlin, 2021. Courtesy of the artist and neugerriemschneider.
Particular Matter(s), 2021,
Installation view at We do not all breathe the same air,
neugerriemschneider, Berlin, 2021. Courtesy of the artist and neugerriemschneider.
Bringing together particles of daily life with distant dust of the cosmos is Printed Matter(s) (2018), a series of photo giclée prints using special ink made of pollution extracted from the air in Mumbai. Depicting images of cosmic dust from the NASA Cosmic Dust Catalog, April 1982, this series unites vast spans of time and scale, from the depths of space to our current world.
The hidden particles of our atmosphere are brought to life by a single beam of light for Saraceno’s new installation Particular Matter(s) (2021), where earthly and cosmic dust particles are illuminated like millions of suspended galaxies and are stirred by visitors’ movements and breath.
Move from darkness into light in the final space for this gallery tour. Here, traces of breath are held in molten glass turned solid shaped by exhaled air. A method of glass blowing that has been used since the 1st century BC, Pneuma, Aeolus, Aeroscale, Aerosolar Serpens (2018-2021) seek to heighten our consciousness of breath and its layered meaning across cultures.
For Saraceno, this entanglement of breath and spirit filling and forming these glass shapes also helps to construct the question: who has the right to breathe?
Printed Matter(s) , 2018,
Installation view at We do not all breathe the same air,
neugerriemschneider, Berlin, 2021. Courtesy of the artist and neugerriemschneider.
Installation view at We do not all breathe the same air, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, 2021. Courtesy of the artist and neugerriemschneider.
Installation view at We do not all breathe the same air, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, 2021. Courtesy of the artist and neugerriemschneider.
Saraceno’s works Hybrid Spider/Webs (2019-2020) and Spider/Web Maps (2018-2020) tell stories of layered relationships, entangling not only different arachnid webbed ecosystems, but also human and non-human worlds. Black carbon can cling to a spider’s web, altering and damaging it and the spider over time. The blackened spider/webs then demonstrate how all endure the effects of human caused air pollution. In the context of Saraceno’s research community Arachnophilia (2017–), these works furthermore aim to change people’s perceptions of spiders and webs within the context of the current ecological crisis.
Completing the show, Radio Galena (2020) sits before a barred window. It is a stone wrapped in wire that can function as a radio in certain parts of the atmosphere, using neither electricity, batteries or solar panels. This radio stone earth enters into reverberation and receives radio waves, attuning to “geological broadcasting”. For Saraceno, this work recalls clandestine radios used in times of political strife, and reminds us of human power to overcome structures of control using the simple, nonharmful materials and natural energies of our planet.
We do not all breathe the same air poses questions surrounding a heightened consciousness of breath, air, and atmosphere, with its many injustices but also possibilities for transformation in the future.
Moving forward will require both the realization and recognition that, not only do we not all breathe the same air, but that not all have the right to breathe.
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