Atelier Programme | Tomás Saraceno - Cosmic Resonance — A Special Performance

2020-09-20

Sun

14:00

14:30

Speakers

Wang Yeu-Kwn, Choreographer
Lee Yin-Ying, Dancer

Locations

Winsing Art Place (1/F. 6, Lane 10, Lane 180, Section 6, Minquan East Road, Neihu District, Taipei City)

Fees

$300

Ages

Unrestricted

Introduction

In 2015, Tomás Saraceno presented Arachnid Orchestra. Jam Sessions at the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore. Drawing on the incredible structural properties of spider web and the complex vibrational communication among spiders, Saraceno amplified these barely perceptible vibrations and the elastic tensions of the webs—normally inaudible to the human ear—into acoustic rhythms.

The giant spider web structure on display here invites the viewer to sense the frequency of the galaxy cluster PSZ2 G099.86+58.45 (z = 0.616) as observed from Earth through the vibrations of touch, reimagining vibrations as messages sent into the universe. Through this exhibition, the Foundation specially invites choreographer Yeu-Kwn Wang and dancer Yin-Ying Lee to create a collaborative work that activates the work through touch and communicates deeply with you through vibration and oscillation, co-creating a new chapter of the story.

Exhibition view: Untitled, 2022. Photo © Gerardo Landa & Eduardo Lopez - GLR Estudio

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Artist Biography

Tomás Saraceno

Born in Argentina in 1973, he now lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He earned a Master's degree in architecture. In 2001, he went to Germany to study art and in 2009 he joined NASA's International Space Research Program. These interdisciplinary experiences combine creation with aesthetics, architecture, science, and environmental causes in a new balance that no longer separates art and science. Tomás also believes that we should learn and pay attention to the principles of ecology as a system of cohabitation of different cultures and regions, and understand the necessity of the principle of cooperation in the universe in which we live, in order to seek answers for the future survival of the human species.

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