Tomas saraceno, welcome to hardtalk. welcome. thank you for inviting me. it s a great pleasure to have you here, tomas. now, your art involves big ideas and, sometimes, very big installations. and for many of your viewers, it s something unusual, something they ve never seen before. do you find it useful, or even easy, to explain your art? not really. but sometimes, i get help from others to try to understand what i m trying to do and many times, i get the help of the spiders and their webs as much as thinking that many, you know, cosmologists are always trying to think about the origin of the universe or they find analogies in the three dimensional spider web of how the universe had formed right after the big bang. and that was one of the entry points. i mean, there s many things that i don t know. usually, i ask the spiders and their webs. oh, my goodness, so i have asked you about your art and you ve immediately decided to tell me about the spiders, so we have to get
That, at any rate, seems to be an ambition of my guest today, one of the world s most innovative artists, tomas saraceno, whose work involves spiders, balloons, dust and air. at its heart, it s a challenge to all of us are we ready to reinvent what it means to be human in a complex ecosystem, on a small planet?
And then very clearly he said well, after a week of conversation, discussion, what could happen? he said, can you do a web page for me, because i want to sell my divination to the rest of the world . people come to the serpentine, we built up a web page for him where he had been. so you re not exploiting him or, indeed, yourspiders, maybe for profit, is that what you re telling me? absolutely. and this means that we have already raised and he have through his own web page, a lot of divination, which are charged, indirectly are the source of their income, to help to maintain that knowledge. and it s their knowledge. it s this 5% of population which knows how to maintain this biodiversity on the planet earth. well, it s fascinating stuff. tomas saraceno, i thank you forjoining me. i m sure many more people will now be interested in your spiders and your balloons. thank you very much. it was a pleasure. thank you. it s great to have you in the studio.
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