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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...

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...

Where there was a great deal of freedom to pursue your creativity. im just wondering whether, you know, you love spiders, but given what youve learned about the flaws of humanity, the political repression, what you call the economic yeah, well... both laugh. exploitation, do you not much like humans? you know, i like humans, of course. but i have hope that some humans might change, right, for the better of all humanity on the planet, right? i think so. thats my hope. and just a thought about tha...

Very big installations. and for many of your viewers, its something unusual, something theyve 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 im 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 you know, cosmologists are always trying to think about the origin of the universe or they find analogies in the three—d...

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. ...

At the beginning of the internet, the world wide web. so, we are somewhat preoccupied with ideas about webs. yes, absolutely. and i think so, its — its not so wide, lets say, and its pretty much, you know, exclusive to some humans. but getting back to spiders, even in the answers youve given me so far, im thinking to myself, "this man sounds "more like a natural scientist than he does an artist". hey, i think sometimes, we are so confined to our comfort zone, right? as an artist, you have to b...