An extension of its cognitive system, the spider’s web allows for communication with the greater world through vibration, mapping its consciousness along threads like the neural map of our own brain. Featured in two of the artist's three new Arachnomancy Cards, Jorōgumo blurs species boundaries and invites us to attune to a plane of radical interconnectedness, challenging hierarchical, patriarchal, and colonial power structures and celebrating those alternative forms of knowing and inhabiting the world that survive and subvert the homogenizing impulse of the Capitalocene, opening spaces for inter-species recognition. Jorōgumo, a Yōkai of Japanese mythology that exists in the liminal space between woman and spider, serves as one of our guides into Saraceno’s exhibition. The artist’s solo exhibition will fill the entirety of the center’s gallery spaces, marking the largest display of his work ever held at a Japanese museum. Saraceno’s international and interdisciplinary practice challenges dominant ways of inhabiting and sensing the environment, continuously redefining the place of artistic production in the face of destructive habits and subjugated forms of knowledge. Visitors are invited into the floating and interconnected worlds of Aerocene and Arachnophilia, the artist’s open-source, community projects, calling for environmental justices and interspecies cohabitation through renewed relationships with the terrestrial, atmospheric and cosmic realms. The second season takes place from Octoto January 10, 2022, and features the visionary artist Tomás Saraceno, whose work is part of the center’s permanent collection. Inter+Play is Towada Art Center’s ongoing three-part exhibition to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Arts Towada, a city-wide initiative that promotes art throughout the city along its main thoroughfare Kanchogai Avenue. Artists: Tomás Saraceno, Suzuki Yasuhiro,［mé], Behavior Problem Trio
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