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from a cosmic perspective if i told an astronaut about it he'd tell me what we're already flying. thomas said us and his art works explore the pressing issues of our times reflecting on how we can live more sustainable lives and use our resources more sparingly he's also interested in alternative means of travel and how can inspire us to think outside the box. a little bit. i mean. if you go you know thank you thank. you thank. you. the argentinian performance and installation
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artist takes an interdisciplinary approach to his work and regularly cooperates with scientific research institutions like when he launched this experiment in bolivia to test out the possibilities of emissions free air travel. this is sad to say knows beilin studio where he plans and prepares his many projects. saddest and who has always been fascinated by the interplay between arts and science he studied art and architecture in argentina and then attended frankfurt's . art school on a scholarship he also took part in a nasa research project. has become an internationally sought after a autistic in part because his work ponders some of the most urgent questions we face today such as how can we shape our future and how much responsibility do we
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carry fall actions. kimiko muster this is for me who is don't say no you might as well ask me about the some of the different parts what makes someone the person they are or you but i want to know if i have the feeling we as humans tend to see ourselves as extraordinary as somehow superior to other species. but in reality we struggle to forge real relationships with other species or does not real relationships founded on solidarity are essential to our progress this is. santa santa began experimenting with the idea of floating cities in 2011. that year he showcased his cloud cities project at butlins hamburger bahnhof gallery this project like so many others question the way we live as a society and in visions new forms of human coexistence. and community. has
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belin show featured a network of cloud like that visitors could climb into. what would it be night to inhabit such a floating city to live and work that. what matters to sara sena is that we realize that everything is interconnected that way just parts of a greater whole 'd . since this does he have the feeling that all the attention afforded to him all his success and popularity goes hand in hand with a certain responsibility when we do you work more grow more companies or the inside of a lot of those who are i think responsibility can mean confronting certain problems that mexicans here today we face pressing issues like global warming and then the
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quality of medical and i mean don't know when they see we're lucky or not also the extinction of certain species and people dying on this planet brought home one of them in sort of kind of the terror of it but it's ok i don't think it is enough to see individual answers to these issues in either allowed to follow that we need global all encompassing answers we process in lupul plats why i am always looking to forge new alliances adopt new perspectives and take new steps that can bring about the changes our planet desperately needs you know where you want to. be a clinton is it appeared. in or tim 2018 sad to say no showcased his own ad installation at paris's i laid to tokyo contemporary art when you get focused on the importance of and how we as a species at least take this vital element. santo
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santo set up 76 spider webs to make the air more tangible as it were spiders have inhabited the earth for hundreds of millions of years and he's there to spin their intricate web. or webs were a starting point and i have been fascinated by them for a very long time they're connected to the spiders they are a part of their body who are not on your normal can only sense a small bug is near because of the vibrations it sends through the well. without the well but it could neither feel nor see its prey the. most spiders that make webs are blind. by creating a web they're essentially creating their own sensory ability. allowing them to feel the world and other species around them. the installation translated the
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vibrations of spike his movements into audio signals creating a kind of ironic need symphony. me. me me. me me me. me are tiny dust particles attract and also transformed into sounds the more people pass through this room the more the particles whirl around the spiders register these movements and sounds creating a form of interaction between them under visitors. me . we. started with my obsession with spider webs. so we set out making all kinds of them
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knocking down. that balcony and also invented a machine together with the technical university of darmstadt they brought my idea to life if you like basically uses laser signals to weave intricate web and so they're going to go to really they last more complex as. though they were no i mean i think we're down to that got many academics interested in giving up until then said nobody had managed to create such a detailed map of spider webs and this is really my team and so i got by did by the massachusetts institute of technology and max planck institute to get them to study spider webs and their surroundings to better understand these creatures that they're on your planet that in that i'm innocent and you know. with no hope in it and she's like has along with spiders and spider webs and
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recently is they've played an important moment in his office told us what exactly fascinates him about and when did this fascination start or tickle me so i thought oh how to commit him what well i always say you work with spiders i always say no spiders work with me mainly because they've been here for more than 200000000 years so we can only learn from them not the other way around my work is almost anthropological an attempt to reconstruct today's image of what it means to be human in this collection of bacteria and other inhabitants i'm trying to redefine our relationship to those with whom we share the planet money. together with natural scientists sarah said now has set up his own lab in his studio in berlin to study spiders and that behavior. they don't look at needs to mature as a mere possibility or. what strikes me at my studio is that many people still suffer from a rock and a phobia. a terrible fear of spiders i mean literally or. when
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a people visit the studio and realize that it's largely a populated by spiders and spider webs many of them grow uncomfortable these going forward. and we've been to see if we kept puppies or kittens here people would say oh what a pretty kitty they don't usually do that when they see spiders. yet spiders are very different you must aim not only to differentiate between the various species but to see what unites spiders and what separates them from one another when they discover the co relationships and synergies between species think about is when you come into a spider nets have a special symbolism because you see all these connections these threads which go from one side to the other and they follow that up so if you ask me what fascinates
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me most about spiders it's the special beauty of their webs you know in some way. in his installations which take up entire rooms santa senate to nearly place but the patterns and shapes found in his ideas website. visitors can even enter into a huge web and experience the world from a spited specific tips were. an open open saturday with many of my works because i'm not thinking about the speculation radio i'm also not thinking about the outside world which makes us feel foreign or different though who can with these words i'm trying to create something all encompassing. that's why i like to work with really large services and if you move around on one side of this web the people on the other side move to when i move around i caused by bray sions were . influence the space. and the spiders respond for maybe this will let us find
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a new way of communicating with one another which my work is about creating these kinds of connections and pulled out of the ok it's not just about seeing what's around us. i'm interested in interactions it goes on with him on a variety of levels and with different groups of people who know. what can we learn about ourselves from working with other species and does this change the way we deal with one another. sarah senator doesn't tame to definitively ohmss such questions rather he uses his art to get people thinking. and his work out the rhythms visitors and to an interactive network they see and feel the vibrations triggered by themselves and others.
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seem quaint he employs many different disciplines in his arts in astrophysics or engineering biology he even explores musical composition with the help of spiders so why is this kind of into disciplinary work so important to have workers the report on the product do you think that connects you on basically 91 of these there are no doubt at all because it keeps opening up new worlds when you only look at a phenomenon from one perspective you're missing out on all the other perspective the other ways of sensing reality or thinking about it it seems to me that these days we often forget about these other realities. is it prompts people to change their perspective and encourage dialogue sort of said always presents the results of his exchanges with natural scientists and experts from a variety of disciplines. he wants all of us to be open to change with a broad spectrum of finding its. one
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that's captured santa sent his imagination is humans long held fascination with flying. in our time the dream of life has turned into a nightmare that's due to the way we fly zone at the top of the earth flying is a total disaster because we're reliant on fossil fuels on lithium on batteries or other kinds of raw materials expect to meet their extraction endangers the survival of many species. for we need to find new ways of making the notion of flight a possible dream a go red nose. with. 3 years senate senator has been experimenting with flying arrows solus sculptures
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such a variety of locations around the globe these free floating sculptures saw only by the song and carried only by the wind and the mabel flights without the consumption of fossil fuel a radical concept. this is how to mass that i say no started to become interested in the possibilities of a new. one he calls ara-c. the ariel era. but it's important that we mustn't go because i think the term that best describes the era we're living in now is the capitalist i don't see the age of rampant capitalism but. the era seen as an epoch of hope and age which is radically different from the capital of seen. they. went to the dean.
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does everything that changes our habits but not the climate helps to usher in a new era removing one we call the era seen. an aerial age and era in which we demonstrate awareness of one another and of the environment and work together to invent new rituals and new customs to create this year. tomas set us a nose era seen projects requires a radical rethink on our part to enduring natural resources rising emissions climate change and the extinction of many species are destroying the very basis of our life on us. air is seen places as not human beings at the center of things. protecting not polluting the element that keeps us alive is its main goal
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a way of making amends to mother earth while that may sound like a utopian ideal saddest i know and his team have already proven that some of their ideas work in the real world. in argentina the era seen foundation team has already set several world records among them the 1st manned fully solar free flight with a hot air balloon it reached a height of 272 meters covered 1.7 kilometers and was airborne for over an hour. the team's next goal is to be able to transport several people at once powered only by the sun's ultraviolet rays and fulfilling the dream of emissions free and travel . conversely one of them is a fickle daughter when these sculptures rise up please the 1st thing people say is how can that be it's mesmerizing and a magical moment here for her but suddenly the sculpture turns and there's something on it that was written by another person. ok so me it's like an onion the
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more layers you peel away the more questions arise as to how these things appear to sort of political reasons it was a. pinnacle of schools and we've just got back from argentina and we were working a lot with indigenous communities there before they have taken a clear stand against the colonial processes endangering their environment and. there is lithium mining going on in their territory in. argentina she lay and bolivia board of the area where this so-called white gold is being mined he said that iran and for every tonne of lithium we know that 2000000 liters of water are required and there are $71.00 kilos of lithium and one tesla this is an area already plagued by drought. if we start to excavate lithium to satisfy the consumerism of today's capitalistic society everyone who lives on the edge of the
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sylar of the salt flats will die. along with the animals and the vegetation there and the communities who live there will be forced to leave. school is in pain or that's why we're asking how can we change our habits so that it doesn't lead to climate change. what kind of habits and rhythms does the planet desperately require to regain its equilibrium. and. we can't wait for everyone to agree air travel will have to be very different in the future and. i look you in the. saddest and most project has become a global movement artists scientists designers and activists have joined the ara scene foundation that he set up. the community is where now it's one that comes together and engages in regular die.
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the moment of truth i like the thought of a community that works like a collective and. that's why we have established 2 foundations acting ophelia one of them is called arachno feely and. they learn like arachnophobe it's members or friends to spiders and their webs it is a nonprofit organization that is working to save certain ecosystems the stimulus and the kind of community of friends that also exists beyond the studio. this community is researching how we can ensure the long term existence of certain ecosystems and life forms. because a 2nd community that has sprung up out of the studio is called aero seen this to
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consist of people working in the studio as well as an ever growing impassioned community of people outside who are pursuing it as a hobby because they are people who believe that we can change our way of life and not just by changing individual mobility led by founding a movement for change. said i said no and the era seeing community have developed an explorer in collaboration with mit and the red cross it enables anyone to build a floating explorer sculpture and calculate its flight path and flight generation via east source software each flight gathers data about air quality temperature humidity and pressure which is fed back into the software giving us more and more information about our planet said ascent oh cole's it's highways in the sky like the jet stream for instance. ever seen is an open invitation to everyone who is fighting for a future free fossil fuel and dreaming of a new. kind of boundless borderless maybe. set
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a center slogan from home and sucking homo for a time. for me aren't always means a dialogue or an exchange and that for example the art involving the spiders and spider's web. we have to form new alliances and new ways of working to understand our world. the categories that exists today tend to separate us from one another rather than to unite us. it seems to me that art can help us in this process if you know art has this ability this generosity or this innocence is that people who say no in art you continue to search with childlike innocence and it seems to me that that is exactly what can help us to see the world with other it's. sad to say no is continually venturing out with childlike curiosity into the wild
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he said that he can better understand our planet and. well those. his projects and event horizon has taken him to the new uni's salt flats in bolivia the artist is fascinated by the way the horizon quite literally dissolves. beginning in the early hours of the morning a very thin layer of which have a hovers above the surface of the flats and for just a few moments the horizon looks as if it has been ever a. the surface of the earth forms a giant mirror of the universe that surrounds us 'd it's a fascinating meditative phenomena and. you can even see reflections of light
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emitted by the large magnetic clouds and neighboring universe 163000 light years away. but if we're short of reflection about the future is of central significance. what plans does he have for his own future. one of the employees when you benefit from going through a course in the 100 more when you know my plans for the future are to continue working as we have done recently and they found at the same time to increasingly question the logistics of the art industry the transport of artwork and my own mobility. who to form and to consider alternative ways for us artists to be present or if if if we become conscious of our planet and its atmosphere then we should also start to show solidarity with all of the others on board the co passengers in our world that many of we need to consider how we can continue this journey together to see if we.
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he's opening our eyes to what's going on until now. it's also an invitation to engage with bunning questions about feature. p.f. and when i. can i hope that the balloon that lifted off with 2 passengers and who we probably will soon be able to carry 3 or 4 people. and if we can already fly at an altitude of up to 272 meters for almost 2 hours and then i hope that in the future you'll be able to travel to interview me from colombia for example without your having to take a plane at the lesson of your own but the journey is the destination the journey we will often lose our way on this journey but we will continue on with enthusiasm and hope for a a it was
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