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Matter(s) for Conversation and Action

Particular Matter(s)

Silent Autumn

From Arachnophobia to Arachnophilia

Inter + Play 2

Ha Chi Ki

we do not all breathe the same air

Nggàm dù

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

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
Webs of At-tent(s)ion is a constellation of three-dimensional sculptures interwoven by unrelated spider species. In these hybrid webs, different sensory worlds collide to create speculative architectures, encouraging the imagination of interspecies relations, communication and cooperation. Individual threads and sensory worlds combine to form a floating landscape, materialising the multiple entanglements and connections between spiders and their living connections with humans and non-humans alike, together within ecosystems. The webs are like a musical instrument through which earthly and cosmic tremors resound.
These spider/webs are an extension of the spider’s senses – becoming its ears, eyes and mouth – while at the same time providing a home for their body. Through the filaments, spiders send and receive vibrations, and perhaps even thoughts: they offer a way for these creatures to connect to the world. Some of these spider/webs are amplified with special microphones, allowing us to listen to the rhythm of their vibrations and inviting us to take part to this interspecies ensemble, as a way to shift our attention to worlds in tension and suspension. In doing so, we could attune to nonhuman voices that join with our own in endless webs of connectivity. The installation, thus, challenges the idea of a hierarchical tree of life, and proposes hybridities between and among species and worlds.


Collaborators
Agelena labyrinthica (Berlin)
Anelosimus studiosus (USA, donated by Angela Chuang)
Araneus diadematus (Berlin)
Araniella cucurbitina (Berlin)
Argiope bruennichi (Berlin)
Argiope lobata (Croatia)
Badumna longinqua (Argentina, donated by Martin Ramirez. Originally from Australia)
Cyrtophora citricola (Croatia / United States, some donated by Angela Chuang)
Cyrtophora sp. (China, donated by Peter Jäger)
Cyclosa conica (Berlin)
Enoplognatha ovata (Berlin)
Eratigena atrica (Berlin)
Fecenia sp. (China, donated by Peter Jäger)
Holocnemus pluchei (Paris / Croatia / Berlin)
Larinioides sclopetarius (Berlin)
Latrodectus geometricus (Germany)
Linyphia triangularis (Berlin)
Linyphiidae sp. (Berlin / Croatia)
Nephila edulis (Germany. Originally from Australia)
Nephila inaurata (UK. Originally from Africa)
Nephila senegalensis (Germany, donated by Jutta Schneider. Originally from Africa)
Neriene clathrata (Berlin)
Neriene peltata (Berlin)
Parawixia bistriata (Argentina)
Philoponella alata (China, donated by Peter Jäger)
Psechrus jaegeri (China, donated by Peter Jäger)
Steatoda grossa (Berlin)
Steatoda triangulosa (Berlin)
Tegenaria domestica (Berlin)
Theridiidae sp. (Berlin / China, some donated by Peter Jäger)
Uloborus plumipes (Berlin)
Zygiella x-notata (Berlin)