"The aim is to reach the life of air",Yelta Köm

The last day with meetings. We woke up, had a nice breakfast and left the hotel for our meeting at 11 o’clock with Yelta Köm, an architecture who is currently working in Tomás Saraceno Studio.

He came to Germany five years ago. First to Frankfurt, for his post-graduate degree in Architectural Design at Städelschule Architecture Class. And now his working with Tomás Saraceno as a project leader since two years. For meeting we went to the studio where Saraceno conserve most of his works which are in progress. For us, it was more like a trip to a museum, an exhibition because the models were everywhere.

Saraceno is a utopian contemporary artist from Argentina. There is almost fifty persons in studio who’s working for him. In the studio, the main language used is English and a bit spanish(because he is an Argentinian). Saraceno always interests in utopia architectures and clouds because his main point is Cloud Cities. He’s questioning how to live in the clouds, how we can reach the clouds, how we can experience air and space. By looking at some of his photos we can say that the main subject (living in the clouds) is same in all his different type of works. Mr. Köm told us that preparing a exhibition took one year averagely. It is when they fix the design and exhibition they start to the production of work-of-art. They’re also creating some books as fair directory about works of Tomás Saraceno in studio.

“Not all dust stays up there… A piece of space falls on your ear every day… Forty thousand and tons of cosmic dust reach the Earth yearly… what we inhale… A cube of… black matter… dark energy…cosmic web…”

Tomás Saraceno has another interest about the spiders. The top floor is revered for only that interest. Some of his works is done with the inspiration from this webs, sometimes they’re using them like models. He is the first person who has the idea to represent the spider’s web in three dimension. He uses a lot of different methods and they also working with scientist (not just for this but for so many projects) The most interesting part of the spider work is the one project called Cosmic Dust where they’re recording the spider web with little needles type microphones which have the vibration of the web.

“Air should belong to everyone. Airspace should have no boundaries. The air we breathe is the air. We must preserve and take care of.”

The aerocene is another important part of Saraceno’s art. It is an experimental project of him and also a non profit organisation. He has the idea of fly without fossil fuels. In 2007, he did a workshop with a community of people collecting all the trash bags. They collected them, cleaned them, dried them, sticked them together and formed a flying sculpture. It flies only with the heat of the sun and called Museo Aero Solar, a flying museum. He has this idea that with this project someday we will be able to fly all around the world without using any fossil fuels. The concept come from Anthropocene. “The Anthropocene may have started on July 16, 1945, at White Sands, New Mexico, when the first atomic bomb was detonated. As a result of the explosion, radioactive particles spread all over the earth. Seventy years later, on November 8,2015, in the same location, we were able to lift a person, only with the power of the sun and without burning any fuel. The longest flight on record.” The aim is to reach the life of air.

So before we came to this studio, we weren’t thinking that the art can be this institutional. Some of us were thinking that art is individual. But with contemporary art, it changed mostly.