joy i get a coincidence. that santa previously the earth was just a messy chemistry lab and i thought they. were the improbable but. it was true just the creation of our solar system with our planet is a bit like winning the lottery ever so little. money from birth. starts feb 11th on t.w. . 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 he'd tell me what we're already flying. thomas said a center has explored the pressing issues of all 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 ox can inspire us to think outside the box. a little bit. i'm just. going to go over. the q. . 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 sad to say knows but when studio where he plans and prepare as his many projects. satirist i know has always been fascinated by the interplay between art 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 source off to office 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 means we carry fox.

to make a mess of the former who is thomas said i say no you might as well ask me about the some of the different parts what makes someone the course and 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 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 bought off gallery this project like so many others question the way we live as a society and in visions new forms of human. students and community. his

beilin show featured a network of cloud like orbs that visitors could climb into. what would it be night to inhabit such a floating city to live and work with their 'd . what matters to cyrus and i is that we realize that everything is interconnected in that way just pounds of a greater whole. 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 will compass all of the inside of a lot of balls for you i think responsibility can mean confronting certain problems and the next of kins you are going to day we face pressing issues like global

warming and any quality when clinton in don't know when they see we're lucky and but also the extinction of certain species and people dying on this planet who 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 is enough individual answers to these issues. are 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 as a couple. in or tim 2018 sanderson no showcased his on an installation at paris's laid to tokyo contemporary art venue it focused on the importance of and how we as a species looting this vital element. santa

centers 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 seems to spin their intricate webs. the spider webs were a starting point. i have been fascinated by them for a very long time they are connected to the spiders by are a part of their body who are not on your know line or in only sense a small body is near because of the vibrations it sends through the well. without the well but it could neither feel nor see its prey like it was its own most spiders that make webs are blind. by creating a web they are essentially creating their own sensory ability. in them to feel the world and other species around them. the installation translated the

vibrations of spiders movements into audio signals creating a kind of a rock made symphony. 'd tiny dust particles attract and also transformed into sounds the more people pass through this room the more the particles whirl around. find as registered these movements and sounds creating a form of interaction between them and the visitors. started with my obsession with spider web. so we set out making all kinds of them

knocking at that thank you also invented a machine together with the technical university of darmstadt they brought my idea to life if you like basically bashing uses laser signals to even enter a kit well it's all going to go through really the last move complete because. i think they were no i mean if we were that got many academics interested leave it up until then i said nobody had managed to create such a detailed map of spiderwebs and the silicon valley my team and so i got by did by the massachusetts institute of technology and max planck institute together to study spider webs and their surroundings to to better understand these creatures that then i knew then that i'm innocent and you know. with a hole in it and she's let along with the fight isn't spider webs and recently is

they've played an important moment in his office holder what exactly fascinated him out of that and when did this fascination stops or tickle me so i thought oh how to commit him what will i always say you work with spiders i always say no matter how the spiders work with me merely 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. together with natural scientists sarah said now has set up his own lab in his studio in berlin to study spiders and that behavior. you know look at me soon as it may possibly clear there what strikes me at my studio is that many people still suffer from a rock and a phobia. a terrible fear of spiders. or sap when under when people visit

the studio and realize that it's largely a hobby laid out by spiders and spider webs many of them grow uncomfortable these going forward. and we've been those i mean 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 and so just see what unites spiders and what separates them from one another and why they discovered the cold relationships and synergies between species think about is nothing 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

me most about spiders it's the special beauty of their webs you know you're somewhere. in his installations which take up entire have rooms santa senate plays with the patterns and shapes found in his spider's web site. visitors can even enter into a huge web and experience the world from a spy to specific to were. nope nope instead of with many of my works because i'm not thinking about the spectator 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 surfaces if you move around on one side of this web the people on the other side move to when i move around i cause vibration. which influence the

space. and the spiders respond. or maybe this will let us find a new way of communicating with one another which my work is about creating these kinds of connections and out of the ok it's not just about seeing what's around us . i'm interested in interactions it is 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 center doesn't aim to definitively ohmss such questions rather he uses his arts to get people thinking. in his work algorithms visitors and to an interactive network they see feel the vibrations triggered by themselves and others.

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 reporters that important on the part of you think that connects you on basically not one 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. to prompt people to change their perspective and encourage dialogue sarah 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 and to engage with a broad spectrum of finding is. 'd

one that's captured cyrus and his imagination is humans long held fascination with flying. in our time the dream of light has turned into a nightmare that's due to the way we fly business when at the top of that we're flying is a total disaster because we're reliant on fossil fuels on lithium on batteries or other kinds of raw materials extract to meet their extraction endangers the survival of many species. we need to find new ways of making the notion of flight a possible dream again. we were looking. for years santa center has been experimenting with flying arrow solus such

a variety of locations around the globe these free floating sculptures saw only by the song and carried only by the wind and enable flights without the consumption of fossil fuel a radical concept. this is how to mass that i say know started to become interested in the possibilities of a new way what he calls an era seen the aerial era. then we must go. 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 capital. seen. i think

i'm into the dean. and 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 an 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 our. thomas said i say those areas seem projects requires a radical rethink on our part to enduring natural resources rising emissions climate change on the extinction of many species or destroying the very basis of our life on us. air is seen places as 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. conversely one of them is a trickle down the sculptures rise up with the 1st thing people say is how can that be it's mesmerizing and a magical moment here with the book suddenly the sculpture turns and there's something on it that was written by another. ok so me it's like an onion the more

layers you peel away the more questions arise as to how these things appear to sort of political symbolism. in dinner we've just got back from argentina and we were working a lot with indigenous communities there they have taken a clear stand against the colonial processes endangering their environment and our territories that there is lithium mining going on in their territories. argentina chile and bolivia board of the area where this so-called white gold is being mined he said that iran and for every ton of lithium we know that 2000000 liters of water are required and 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

soil are the salt flats that 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 can you know that. we can't wait for everyone to agree air travel will have to be very different in the future. for life . the saddest center's project has become a global movement artists scientists designers and activists have joined the ara scene foundation that he set up. the community is question now it's one that comes together and engages in breaking.

moment of truth i like the thought of a community that works like a collective and. that's why we have established 2 foundations 2nd ophelia one of them is called arachne ophelia. like arachnophobia its members are 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 to. do this community is researching how we can ensure the long term existence of certain ecosystems and life forms. the know is a 2nd community that has sprung up out of the studio it's called aero seen 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 because 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 era seeing 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 generation viii source software each flight gathers date air about air quality temperature humidity and pressure which is fed back into the software giving us more a more information about how planets and what's that ascent oh kohls it's highways in the sky like the jet stream for instance. they are seen as an open invitation to everyone who is fighting for a future premier fossil fuels and dreaming. of

a new kind of boundless borderless maybe. set a center slogan from homo sapien to homo full time to. a lot of people who go cold for me aren't always means in our dialogue or in exchanges going on that for example the art involving the spiders and spiders weber's. we have to form new alliances and new ways of working to understand our world only. 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 where we can do art has this ability this generosity or this innocence that producing those in aren't 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 raw. data center is continually venturing out with childlike curiosity into the world that he

can better understand our planet and of course most literally. all of. all. those. 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. 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 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 reflects. of light emitted

by the large magnetic cloud and neighboring universe 163000. 'd fictional sort of action about the future is of central significance. what plans does he have for his own future. one of those was when you. were going to do a course in the 100 full quote when he was my plans for the future are to continue working as we have done recently and a friend at the same time to increasingly question the logistics of the art industry the transport of artwork and my own mobility. who and to consider alternative ways for us artists to be present or if they face 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 at the planet we need to consider how we can continue this journey together to see through.

his opening our eyes to what's going on and now. it's also an invitation to engage with burning questions about each. one of. can i hope that the balloon that lifted off with 2 passengers and who we province 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 but then i hope that in the future you'll be able to travel to interview me from columbia for example without your having to take a plane. but the journey is the destination journey we will often lose our way on this journey but we will continue on with enthusiasm and hope. exactly yep it was

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