BTS 방탄소년단 - CONNECT, BTS - AEROCENE PACHA - Buenos Aires, RITUALS OF CARE - Berlin

Dear friends, cosmic webs, spiders, earth, air, mountains suns, clouds, bactria, ... We would like to invite you to join us on January 28th 2020, when Aerocene Pacha and its pilot(s) will take off on a voyage always dreamed about, flying free, lifed only by the sun and air, without lithium, solar panels, helium or fossil fuels.

 

Tomás Saraceno (San Miguel de Tucumán, 1973) is an Argentinian contemporary artist. He is best known for his large-scale, interactive installations and floating sculptures, and for his interdisciplinary approach to art. With his practice he explores new, sustainable ways of sensing and inhabiting the environment, the result of research into the origins of the observable universe, arachnology and the potential future for airborne dwelling.

Saraceno launched the Aerocene Foundation in 2015; an open-source, community project for artistic and scientific exploration of environmental issues. Relating to arachnology research, Saraceno is the first person to have scanned, reconstructed and re-imagined spiders' woven spatial habitats, and possesses the only three-dimensional spider web collection in existence.

Aerocene

Aerocene is a project that aims to explore environmental issues scientifically and artistically. It consists of sculptures that are kept in the air by the Sun's heat and by infrared ratiation.

Aerosolar sculptures were officially presented during the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP21, at Grand Palais, Paris, 2015, after that a similar prototype has been tested in November at the White Sands Dunes of New Mexico.On November 8, 2015, it broke world records by achieving the longest and most sustainable certified flight (without fossil-fuel, solar panel, helium or batteries) ever registered: During approximately 2 hours and 15 minutes, seven people were lifted up in White Sands' desert landscape. With a net lift of more than 250 kg, the payload of the "D-O AEC Aerocene" solar sculpture has no precedent in the long history of manned solar balloon flight attempts.

The project has evolved from Tomás Saraceno's residency at L'Observatoire de l'Espace, CNES. Led by Saraceno, the project's team is composed of leading scientists and engineers, including collaboration with Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS), Braunschweig University of Technology - Institute of Architecture-related Art (IAK), TBA21 Academy, Red Cross Red Crescent, and numerous universities, research centers, cultural and art institutions, and museums around the world.

Aerocene Explorer

The Aerocene Explorer is a flight kit. Participants can hack the devices pack, create their own lightweight sensors, and lift them up. Data collected with the Aerocene Explorer can be uploaded and shared with Aerocene's open-source online community, via an interactive website that encourages participants all over the world to share their experiments, photos and videos, comments, and innovations.

 

Hybrid Webs

The secondary output of the research conducted in the Arachnid Research Lab are the 'Hybrid Webs' - the collective term for a series of sculptures devised by Saraceno. Each sculpture, made entirely of spider silk is designed to appear as a unique, geometric galaxy floating in infinite space. Creating the sculptures means incorporating webs woven by spiders who are social, asocial or between the two. During the building period, the sculptures are turned onto each side, allowing gravity to aid the interweaving of silk from different sorts of spider. The works' titles reveal the technical specifications of each sculptural element; the genus and species of spiders employed and the time taken by each spider to complete its web. The final sculpture is thereby an emblem of an encounter which might not otherwise have succeeded, and so prompts a reflection on human coexistence with ourselves and the natural world.

'Hybrid Webs' have been exhibited worldwide:

- "May you live in interesting times", Venice Biennale, curated by Ralph Rugoff (2019);

- on AIR", Carte blanche to Tomás Saraceno at Palais de Tokyo, curated by Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel (2018-2019);

- Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York and at Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2018);

- Pinksummer Contemporary Art, Rome (2016);

- Istanbul Design Biennial, Istanbul (2016);

- 11th Shanghai Biennial, Shanghai (2016);

- Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt (2016);

- UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, USA (2016);

- MARCO, Museum for Contemporary Art, Monterrey, Mexico (2016);

- Cultural Center; Espace Muraille, Geneva (2015);

- Chicago Architectural Biennial, Chicago (2015);

- Louvre Museum, Paris (2015);

- Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin (2014);

- Museo di Villa Croce, Genoa, Italy (2014);

- Esther Schipper, Berlin (2012);

 

 

The performance series Rituals of Care spans experimental choreography, healing practices, sonic environments and collective gatherings. These Interdisciplinary works and practices pxplore the necessary conditions for coming together and tending to environments, to physical and spiritual worlds and to other beings. Through a range of somatic techniques, queer re-imaginings and indigenous perspectives, these performances offer radical acts of care and repair.

 

The Gropius Bau hosts a series of performances as it begins its 2020 programme: an ongoing exploration of themes with particular contemporary urgency, including land and the Anthropocene, violence and repair. In January and February, the performance series Rituals of Care resonates with the history, location and physicality of the building itself, which still bears the marks of wartime damage and its mending through carefully kept traces.

 

The programme spans experimental choreography, healing practices, sonic installations and collective gatherings. These interdisciplinary works and practices explore the necessary conditions for coming together and tending to environments, to physical and spiritual worlds and to other beings. Through a range of somatic techniques, queer re-imaginings and indigenous perspectives, these performances offer radical acts of care and repair.

 

With Jelili Atiku, boychild with Josh Johnson and Total Freedom, Pan Daijing, Cevdet Erek, Marcelo Evelin, Bill Fontana, Maria Hassabi, Mette Ingvartsen with Will Guthrie, Baba Murah and Candomblé Berlin, Antonija Livingstone and Nadia Lauro with Mich Cota, Kennis Hawkins, Stephen Thompson and others

 

Curated by Stephanie Rosenthal and Noémie Solomon

 

All performances are free with variable capacity. The project Rituals of Care is being carried out with the kind support of BTS as part of CONNECT, BTS.

 

January 15–February 2 Sound installation Cevdet Erek: Left Right, Stereo

January 16–17, 8–9pm Performance Marcelo Evelin: A Invenção da Maldade

January 18, 12–3pm Performance with public procession and ritual Jelili Atiku: The Night Has Ears

January 18–19, 4:30–5pm & 6:45–7:15pm Choreographic proposition 1 Mette Ingvartsen: evaporated landscapes

January 18–19, 5:15–5:45pm & 6–6:30pm Choreographic proposition 2 Mette Ingvartsen: Manual Focus

January 18–19, 7:30–8pm Choreographic proposition 3 Mette Ingvartsen and Will Guthrie: All Around

January 19, 2–4pm Cleansing ritual and Oríkì performance Baba Murah and Candomblé Berlin: The Magic of Healing

January 23–24, 8–9pm Performance Maria Hassabi: TOGETHER

January 24, 4–6pm Performance installation Antonija Livingstone and Nadia Lauro: les études (hérésies 1–7)

January 25, 11am–4pm & 7–8:30pm Performance installation Antonija Livingstone and Nadia Lauro: les études (hérésies 1–7)

January 25, 9–10pm Performance Antonija Livingstone with Mich Cota & guests: CHAUD

January 25, 10pm–1am DJ Set Mieko Suzuki

January 26, 11am–4pm Performance installation Antonija Livingstone and Nadia Lauro: les études (hérésies 1–7)

January 30, 7–9pm & January 31, 9–11pm Performance Pan Daijing: Dead Time Blue

January 31, 6–8pm Panel discussion Rituals of Care: a conversation

February 1–2, 12–5pm Durational performance boychild with Josh Johnson and Total Freedom: Untitled Duet (the storm called progress)

February 2, 5:30–7:30pm Music and cocktails Why Be

 

 

 

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