El Mundo, 2004, air turbine, beamer, wood crate, tube, wireless video camera, inflatable world globe, measurements variable.
Tomas Saraceno’s work is concerned with science and scientific observation. Over the past decade, he has been combining various media to develop a poetic and ambitious project. As he himself points out, he is interested in “rethinking the temporality of the artwork. [...] A transparent globe is inflated, photographed by a wireless camera than transmits the images to a video projector. [...] After several moments, the viewer realizes that the projection on the wall is taking place in real time; this perception grows clearer when you see yourself upside down […] on ‘Spaceship Earth’ – a spaceship that has been diverted off course, in a world that is sometimes freefalling or rotating too quickly, and at other moments is floating weightlessly.” (B.B.)