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I can walk into an exhibition — a saraceno exhibit — and i can find the ways in which youve either got real spiders�* webs, because you do use spiders in your exhibits, or youve recreated a three—dimensional web by other means. but either way, im thinking to myself, "the spider did "this, not you". absolutely. and the spider, with all due respect to spiders, is not an artist. i think — so, we, again, need to redefine who is an artist and whos not, right? and i mean, to that extent, you...

So, in a sense, youre a vehicle through which you feel we can learn about our planet, about our ecosystem, about ourselves, thanks to the spider? yes. oh, i think spiders are using me to say, "look how long i have lived on the planet". its time for spiders to take over galleries and exhibitions and become really a source of, at least for me, inspiration for so many years, and for so many others who do not suffer the arachnophobia, right? yeah, because obviously, to many people, spiders are scary...

What they do, what they do, they vibrate solid elements. with that, you dont hear it coming, you hear the vibration. this is into the field of biotremology what we are of biotremology what we are experimenting, and we are pioneering also into the possibility of communicating with a spider. like sometimes, you dont hear the phone call, but the phone, the iphone or a telephone vibrates. and there are different modes of communication and we are trying to think how we can bridge that. so, here you s...

Knowledge also that you run a big workshop in germany with a0 or 50 staff doing the artwork with you, which clearly requires a lot of money. yeah. you make money from your art, dont you? yes, of course. and how do you live with that, given your feelings about the capitalocene period were living in? absolutely. its saying like, how much is good enough, right? and i think so if you dont put a limit of how much you earn, then you start to earn something that you dont need. and i think so, the major...

To see that there are a lot of spiders — when you stop, yeah, brooming them away, spiders are always inhabiting the world, have inhabited it much longer than us, no? and to that extent also, its thinking a little bit about not everybody suffers the phobias of the, sometimes, western world. and that was one of the interests that also we start to collaborate in one of the first rooms of the exhibition is dedicated to pierre bollo, a spider diviner from cameroon, who had this tradition, a militan...

Feel we can learn about our planet, about our ecosystem, about ourselves, thanks to the spider? yes. oh, i think spiders are using me to say, "look how long i have lived on the planet". its time for spiders to take over galleries and exhibitions and become really a source of, at least for me, inspiration for so many years, and for so many others who do not suffer the arachnophobia, right? yeah, because obviously, to many people, spiders are scary. and also, we have this notion in our world that ...

I dont know. but i think so, yes, because what had happened many times, for example, just in the case of the spider is many people, when they see this beautiful spider web, they come back and they said, "oh, my god, i found an artwork "in my house" and its been kind of really shifting, you know, the perception of what an artwork could be and how many artists there are living in the house of the people. and it mean — this i think so, the shifting or perception of the phobias, i think so many of...

Try to convince people that, through the spiders web, they can also think about musicality, they can think about communication. absolutely. it seems theres no end to the way you, as an artist, see potential in the spider and its web. yeah. no, no, absolutely. we have, for many years, together with other scientists, friends and different disciplines have tried to understand that the web also could be like a kind of musical instrument. but sometimes, we produce a sound which is not audible because...

The world, have inhabited it much longer than us, no? and to that extent also, its thinking a little bit about not everybody suffers the phobias of the, sometimes, western world. and that was one of the interests that also we start to collaborate in one of the first rooms of the exhibition is dedicated to pierre bollo, a spider divinerfrom cameroon, who had this tradition, a militant tradition, to treat the spiders as a source of wisdom, as an oracle. and when the village have some questions, th...

Got real spiders�* webs, cos you do use spiders in your exhibits, or youve recreated a three—dimensional web by other means. but either way, im thinking to myself, "the spider did this, not you". absolutely. and the spider, with all due respect to spiders, is not an artist. i think — so, we, again, need to redefine who is an artist and whos not, right? and i mean, to that extent, you know, we can think about spiders have been on the planet almost 300 million years. human sapiens, 200,000. ...