Solutions COP21
Tomás Saraceno
represented by the
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery521 West 21st Street New York, NY 10011
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Grand Palais3 Avenue du Général Eisenhower, 75008 Paris Tel.: +33 1 44 13 17 17 |
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PALAIS DE TOKYO13, avenue du Président Wilson, 75 116 Paris Tel.: 01 47 20 00 29 email : |
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December 4 > 10 2015
 Aerocene, Grand Palais, 2015 (rendering) |
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For COP21 Paris, Tomás Saraceno will present the first prototype of his artistic project Aerocene at the Grand Palais, Paris. Aerocene, is a series of air-fuelled sculptures that will float around the world without engines. Powered only by the heat of the Sun and infrared radiation from the surface of Earth, Aerocene will be able to circumnavigate the Earth many times, floating without use of fossil fuels, solar panels, batteries, helium, hydrogen or other rare gases from the ground.
Aerocene's aesthetic form follows both utopian and real ideas of open source's power to transform. Inflated by air, lifted by the sun, carried by the wind; the project poses questions and seeks answers to our current and troublesome dependency on fossil and hydrocarbon fuels and the resulting pollution - topics that place Aerocene at the core of the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP21 topical framework. In a world divided by geopolitics, Aerocene calls for participation and do-it-together actions. Crossing the frontiers between art, science and education, the project becomes a visionary and open platform of shared knowledge. Thus Aerocene seeks deep understanding of our planet and all its physical, natural and social entanglements in order to project new ways of how we can move, dwell and be-together here on Earth.
At Palais de Tokyo, a symposium and a demonstrative workshop will be organized, in addition to a series of actions and collective performances, based on open-source collaborative principles. Confirmed symposium participants include Leila W. Kinney (MIT CAST), Marion Ackermann (Kunstsammlung NRW, K21 Düsseldorf), Oliver Morton (The Economist), Bronislaw Szerszynski (Lancaster University) and others. The symposium's information can be found here.
December 6, 2015 : Collective Workshop Palais de Tokyo - A demonstration of the principles of #Aerocene
Be part of a movement that has traveled to over 21 countries around the world and reused more than 30,000 plastic bags to build "Museo Aerosolar", a flying museum. Bring 10 plastic bags, glued together in a single sheet, and get a free access to the symposium and workshop.
Other ways to participate
Propose a payload for #Aerocene
From December 3, 2015 ongoing – propose a payload. Write a message or suggest an idea for the payload that will be carried up with the next aerosolar flight. Up to 5 grams of imagination will be lifted by the sun, no helium, burners, panels or batteries used. Foster your imagination towards the unexplored heights of the sky.
Be lifted by the sun #Aerocene #flysharing
From December 3, 2015 –ongoing Collect your new, fossil fuel-free ‘miles and more.’ Become a part of #flyforchange: visit www.aerocene.com and help to build a new fleet of air-fuelled vehicles, share one with friends, and start your pilot license course.
Forecast the trajectory of the free-flight
From January 11, 2016 – Join thousands in tracking and predicting the paths of the next art-science experiment. Get the coordinates of the launch, track the weather patterns, be challenged by jet-stream highways, and exercise your thermodynamic imagination.
Aerocene's aesthetic form follows both utopian and real ideas of open source's power to transform. Inflated by air, lifted by the sun, carried by the wind; the project poses questions and seeks answers to our current and troublesome dependency on fossil and hydrocarbon fuels and the resulting pollution - topics that place Aerocene at the core of the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP21 topical framework. In a world divided by geopolitics, Aerocene calls for participation and do-it-together actions. Crossing the frontiers between art, science and education, the project becomes a visionary and open platform of shared knowledge. Thus Aerocene seeks deep understanding of our planet and all its physical, natural and social entanglements in order to project new ways of how we can move, dwell and be-together here on Earth.
At Palais de Tokyo, a symposium and a demonstrative workshop will be organized, in addition to a series of actions and collective performances, based on open-source collaborative principles. Confirmed symposium participants include Leila W. Kinney (MIT CAST), Marion Ackermann (Kunstsammlung NRW, K21 Düsseldorf), Oliver Morton (The Economist), Bronislaw Szerszynski (Lancaster University) and others. The symposium's information can be found here.
December 6, 2015 : Collective Workshop Palais de Tokyo - A demonstration of the principles of #Aerocene
Be part of a movement that has traveled to over 21 countries around the world and reused more than 30,000 plastic bags to build "Museo Aerosolar", a flying museum. Bring 10 plastic bags, glued together in a single sheet, and get a free access to the symposium and workshop.
Other ways to participate
Propose a payload for #Aerocene
From December 3, 2015 ongoing – propose a payload. Write a message or suggest an idea for the payload that will be carried up with the next aerosolar flight. Up to 5 grams of imagination will be lifted by the sun, no helium, burners, panels or batteries used. Foster your imagination towards the unexplored heights of the sky.
Be lifted by the sun #Aerocene #flysharing
From December 3, 2015 –ongoing Collect your new, fossil fuel-free ‘miles and more.’ Become a part of #flyforchange: visit www.aerocene.com and help to build a new fleet of air-fuelled vehicles, share one with friends, and start your pilot license course.
Forecast the trajectory of the free-flight
From January 11, 2016 – Join thousands in tracking and predicting the paths of the next art-science experiment. Get the coordinates of the launch, track the weather patterns, be challenged by jet-stream highways, and exercise your thermodynamic imagination.
