stories of people the world over information provided. the means they want to express g. w. on facebook and twitter up to date and in touch follow us. i've been thinking about the idea of flying cities for a long time as our planet circles the sun we humanity and all planetary species are travelling at a speed of 76000 miles an hour the idea of flying cities isn't really that utopian from a cosmic perspective if i told an astronaut about it. but we're already flying.

as artworks 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 art can inspire us to think outside the box. a little bit. i mean. when you go you know thank. you thank you. the argentinian performance and installation 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 sara say knows beilin studio where he plans and prepares his many projects. satirist i know 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 artist 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 carry far actions. kimmitt unless there's a forward who is thomas said to say no you might as well ask me about the some of

the different parts what makes someone the person they are or you don't 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 a basic but real relationships founded on solidarity are essential to our progress this is. santa sena began experimenting with the idea of floating cities in 2011. that year he showcased his cloud cities project at butlins hamburger bad off 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 belin show featured a network of cloud like most visitors could climb into what would it be night to inhabit such

a floating city to live and work with. what matters to cyrus santa is that we realize that everything is interconnected that we're just parts of a greater whole. 'd 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. will compass for the. i think responsibility can mean confronting certain problems. on the day we face pressing issues like global warming and then equality who want to live i mean don't know when they see well documented but also the extinction of certain species and people dying on this planet one of them in sort of the terror of

a political 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. that's why i'm always looking to forge new alliances adopt a new perspectives and take new steps that can bring about the changes our planet desperately needs where you want to. be a clinton is it appeared. in or tim 2018 so to say no showcased his own eggs to ration at paris's i laid to tokyo contemporary art venue it focused on the importance of and how we as a species looting this vital element. santo santo set up $76.00 spider webs to make the ad more tangible as it were spiders

have inhabited the us for hundreds of millions of years and seems to spin their intricate webs. spider webs were a starting point. like have been fascinated by them for a very long time they're connected to the spiders they are a part of their body. you know low rider in only sense a small bug is near because of the vibrations it sends through the well. without the web but it could neither feel nor see its prey. most spiders that make webs are blind. by creating a web they're essentially creating their own sensory ability. for with allowing them to feel the world and other species around them. the installation translated the vibrations of spike his movements into o.d.s. signals creating a kind of ironic need symphony. tiny

dust particles attract and also transformed into sounds the more people pass through this room the more the particles around this find his register these movements and sounds creating a form of interaction between them under visitors. imbecility it started with my obsession with spider webs so we set out making all kinds of them mocking that. technique and also invented a machine together with the technical university of darmstadt they brought my idea

to life basically lashon uses laser signals to weave intricate well really more complex. i mean. that got many academics interested living up until then said nobody had managed to create such a detailed map of spider. yes and then in my team and so i got i did by the massachusetts institute of technology and max planck institute to get them to study spider webs and their surroundings to to better understand these creatures that they that i knew then that i'm innocent and you know. go through a hole in it and she's let along with spiders and spider webs and recently is they've played an important role in his office all of us what exactly fascinate was in the mountain of that and when did this fascination start or tickle me so i

thought oh how to him what will i always say you work with spiders i always say no i was spiders work with me 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 this collection of bacteria and other inhabitants i'm trying to redefine our relationship to those with when we share the planet. together with natural scientists said a center has set up his own lab in his studio in berlin to study spiders and their behavior. you know look i mean some joys of my past and. what strikes me at my studio is that many people still suffer from a rock and a phobia a terrible fear of spiders and i mean literally or. under when people visit the studio and realize that it's largely a populated by spiders and spider webs and many of them grow uncomfortable for this

going forward. and we've been those i mean if we kept puppies or kittens here people would say oh what pretty kitties 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 us and what separates them from one another and i discovered the co relationships and synergies between species think about is something 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 figure that out so if you ask me what fascinates me most about spiders it's the special beauty of their webs no recently .

in his installations which take up entire rooms sarah said to nearly place but the patterns and shapes found in his spider's web site. visits his can even enter into a huge web and experience the world from a spited specific to were. an open open saturday with many of my works is because i'm not thinking about the spectator yoga 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 forward as those who that's why i like to work with really large surfaces and if you move around on one side of this well the people on the other side move too and of course when i move around i cause vibrations which influence the space that i mean and the spiders respond. or maybe this will let us find a new way of communicating with one another when 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 who think there's a look at me i'm interested in interactions you can reason with him on a variety of levels and with different groups of people who are they couldn't know . what can we learn about ourselves from working with other species and does this change the way we deal with one another. sara center doesn't aim to definitively set such questions rather he uses his arts 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. seem quaint he employs many different disciplines in his art astrophysics engineering and 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. 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 perspectives the other ways of sensing reality or thinking about it it seems to me that these days we often forget about these other realities. as it comes 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 gauge with a broad spectrum of finding is. one that's captured sort of centers imagination is humans long held fascination with

flying. in our time the dream of life has turned into a nightmare in a form and that's due to the way we fly about that we're flying is a total disaster because we're reliant on fossil fuels on lithium batteries or other kinds of raw materials extract the. action endangers the survival of many species. taking them down to 4 we need to find new ways of making the notion of flight a possible dream again. and then we're going to pursue this when you know. 3 years santa center has been experimenting with flying arrows solus to variety of locations around the globe these 3 floating sculptures off only by the song and carried only by the wind and the maple 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 way what he calls ara-c. and we'll be around. with disinfectant the new muscle propel him i think the term that best describes the era we're living in now is the capital of the i don't see the age of rampant capitalism. the era seen as an epoch of hope and age which is radically different from the capitalist scene gave i think i'm into the. ah. into everything that changes our habits but not the climate helps to usher in

a new era 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 out of 3. to masada sonos ever seen projects requires a radical rethink kaanapali. 2 enduring natural resources rising emissions climate change and the extinction of many species destroying the very basis of all life on us. air is seen places that are not human beings at the center of. protecting not polluting the element that keeps us alive is its main goal a way of making amends to mother us while that may sound like a utopian ideal sad to say no 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 travel. wonderfully one time they say fickle when these sculptures rise up please the 1st thing people say is this how can that be it's mesmerizing and a magical moment or it will hurt but suddenly the sculpture turns and there's something on it that was written by another person who because it is so many it's like an onion the more layers you peel away the more questions arise as to how these things appear so record is and is a. koan

and then of course we've just got back from argentina and we were working a lot with indigenous communities there for at this they have taken a clear stand against the colonial processes endangering their environment and our but it turns out that there is lithium mining going on in their territory in. argentina chile and bolivia. border the area where the so-called white gold is being mined he said and for every ton of lithium we know that 2000000 liters of water are required there are 71 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 capitalist society everyone who lives on the edge of the. it will die. along with the animals and the vegetation there and the communities who live there will be forced to leave. school that's why we are 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. the saddest and most project has become a global movement. scientists designers and activists have joined the ara scene foundation that he sets up. a community. it's one that comes together and engages in.

a. moment like the thought of a community that works like a collective. that's why we have established 2 foundations. one of them is called arachno feeling. like arachnophobia its members are friends to spiders and they're well. it is a nonprofit organization that is working to save certain ecosystems and a kind of community of friends that also exists beyond the studio. to this community is researching how we can ensure the long term existence of certain ecosystems and life forms. is a 2nd community that has sprung up out of the studio it's called aero seem this to 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 they are people who believe that we can change our way of life and not just

by changing individual mobility but by founding a movement for change. and the community have developed an explorer collaboration with mit and the red cross it enables anyone to build a floating explorer and calculate its flight path and flight duration via isa software each flight gathers data here about quality temperature and pressure which is fed back into the software giving us more a more information about top planet said a cent oh coles it's highways in the sky like the jet stream for instance. i was seeing is an open invitation to everyone who is fighting for a future free field and dreaming of a new kind of boundless borderless made. that a center is so good is from home. to home of full time tastes.

for me art always means an art dialogue or an exchange one 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. in the categories that exists today tend to separate us from one another rather than to unite us. it's. seems to me that art can help us in this process for a way if you know art has this ability this generosity or this innocence does that put a single in our 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 eyes. setosa know is continually venturing out with childlike curiosity into the world he said that he can better understand our planet and of course most. all of.

those. projects and event horizon has taken him to the new unis celt flaps 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 water vapor hovers above the surface of the flats and for just a few moments the horizon looks as if it has been ever. the surface of the earth forms a giant mirror of the universe that surrounds us it's a fascinating meditative phenomena and. you can even see reflections of light emitted by the large magnetic clouds and neighboring universe 163000.

but if we're short of action about the future is of central significant size lecture me what plans does he have for his own future. one of the employees when you. were going to do a course in the 100 more when he was my plans for the future are to continue working as we have done recently voted and they found at the same time to increasingly question the logistics of the art industry the transport of artwork and my own mobility christians who know and to consider alternative ways for us artists to be present or 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 think about it but we need to consider how we can continue this journey together. his i mean all rights to what's going on unfound. it's

also an invitation to engage with burning questions about feature. when. 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. 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 a it was a. bomb

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