Museological collections tend to focus on the spider in isolation of its web. (Excerpts from a conversation with Volker Springel at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Munich, Germany, on February 17, 2009) All of this stuff that is red and yellow here are particles we have not discovered yet on earth. What is visible a little bit here is that the backbone of structure of the universe consists of these filament-like structures, which are part of the cosmic web, and along these we find galaxies that are arranged like pearls on a string…We hope to find evidence for unknown elementary particles that we think make up most of the matter in the universe. On the computer we can paint it and we can illuminate it. The stuff that is colorful here is actually matter which you can’t really see. I can show you a flight through the universe. Volker Springel: … The cosmic web, that’s how we astronomers talk about the big picture, how the universe as a whole presents itself and how galaxies are arranged on large scales. Tomás Saraceno: We are trying to learn about spiders’ behavior and net making and we would like to learn more about the origin of the uni-verse…But maybe you could start by explaining the project first and also this analogy between the cosmic filaments and a spider web. As Eben Kirskey puts it, “emergent dynamics can destroy the existing order”, but they “can also figure into collective hopes.” Engaging in those collaborative relationships and creative dynamics – the web sometimes becoming a musical instrument – is a way of attuning to others’ Umwelten, towards novel ways of living together. The works’ titles feature the names, genus and species of the spider collaborators who came together to tune their strings, and the amount of time needed to shape and compose their three-dimensional webs.įrom these encounters, emerges a space where multitudes observe themselves in the very act of becoming a community: a spatial condition of physical immersion in an environment where stories of co-existence between humans and other species materialize. There, sensory worlds and lines of communication merge and connect, the web being considered an extension of the spider’s sensorial and cognitive systems. In this series, floating galaxies made of different silk and web types collide, challenging gravity and fostering the emergence of new kinds of vibrational environments. As different spiders from different species weave in the same space, bridging the architectures of each other’s webs, each one of them tells a story of hybrid relationships, entangling not only different arachnid webbed ecosystems, but also human and more-than-human worlds.
Formed of complex interwoven networks suspended in air, the Hybrid Webs unique architectures originate from inter-specific encounters between unrelated solitary, social and semi-social spider species.
MARVEL ARACHNOPHILIA ARCHIVE
Mapping against extinction: The Archive of Spider/Web Ecologies 3-Dimensional Digital Archive of Spider/Web Typologies 3-Dimensional Physical Archive of Spider/Web Typologies 2-Dimensional Archive of Spider/Web Prints We ask for your collaboration as we seek to expand these archives, in a collective effort to raise awareness of our invertebrate kin. Just like the spider/web, these archives are not static but dynamic, and continue to grow and change shape. Through this website, these archives are made available to the interested public, to advance understanding and possibilities for thinking with the spider/web.
MARVEL ARACHNOPHILIA SERIES
Through this interest in the form, function and possibilities of invertebrate architectures, Studio Tomás Saraceno has carefully built a series of spider/web archives, that allow insights into the various spider/web typologies that exist, and allow us to imagine new ways to interpret and understand these living architectures and assemblages, through the lens of multiple disciplines of thought. According to numerous studies that have argued that the web is an extension of the spider’s sensory and also cognitive systems - our approach is not to consider the web as separate to the web-building spider, but a living material assemblage we think of in terms of the conjunctive neologism: the spider/web. Since 2006, Tomás Saraceno has been articulating a shift in focus, to unfold arachnid research from the perspective of the web.
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