The RCA/Outset Visual Cultures Lecture Series: Tomas Saraceno

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The final lecture in this series supported by the Outset Contemporary Art Fund is by Tomas Saraceno, an Argentinian-born artist now based in in Frankfurt. An artist trained as an architect, Saraceno is rethinking the way we live in relation to one another and how we might re-organise the built environment and the cities we live in. In recent years Saraceno has experimented with suspended environments that are constructed from multiple helium-filled transparent balloons. One of his ongoing projects Air-Port-City envisions networks of habitable platforms that float in the air creating an aerial city, which is in constant physical transformation. Saraceno has exhibited internationally at Maison Hermes, Tokyo; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany; BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK etc.