In more exciting bee news...
photo by Rob Cruickshank
Resonating Bodies is a big art, sound and research project about bees and other pollinators by Sarah Peebles, in collaboration with Rob King, Rob Cruickshank and Anne Barros. There's going to be a speaker's series with bee experts, a new bee-wasp condo on Toronto Island and an art/sound installation that L.M. will not be visiting, called Bumble Domicile.
Bumble Domicile, the first installment of the Resonating Bodies project, uses an on-site bumblebee hive at *new* Gallery (906 Queen street West) and displays video and audio of its internal activity. Headphones that "plug" into the actual hive give the viewer opportunity to hear the bees in real time. Ultraviolet video of flowering plants in the building's communal garden is projected onto the North wall of the gallery to provide live tracking of the bees pollination.
Continuous audio transformations of pre-recorded bees and shoh (the Japanese mouth-organ, an instrument which has utilized beeswax since ancient times) fill the gallery space. Visitors are invited to place aromatic offerings into a heated copper tray, which resembles the interior of the hive. This copper tray was created through a unique process involving the remnants of a discarded bumblebee hive.
RESONATING BODIES- BUMBLE DOMICILE
A co-presentation between InterAccess Media Arts Centre and New Adventures in Sound Art
Come and meet your most misunderstood neighbors, but don't mention honey...
Resonating Bodies- Bumble Domicile (part 1)
July 4-27 2008
*new* Gallery 906 Queen Street West,(corner of Crawford and Queen W.)
Opening Reception Saturday July 12th 4-6pm at *new* Gallery
Followed by "The forgotten Pollinators," a talk by Dr. Stephen
Buchmann at InterAccess, 9 Ossington Avenue, 7pm
There's lots more information about the project, including the schedule for the speaker's series, at Interaccess.org. Visit Sarah Peebles' website for research images and an audio sample.
I can now add "poked a hole in a box full of angry bumblebees" to the list of things I've done in the name of art. (Actually, they weren't that angry. )
nice bees. Looking forward to the show!
That image Sal posted doesn't bother me. It's those gi-normous lumbering dozy bumblebees that put me in a state of ashen-faced sickening panic, (and the sound of a bee puts me over the edge.)
That said I'm not cheering for their catastrophic disappearance. I just can't ever let one in the house.
Actually,LM, the ginormous lumbering bumblebees are what we're dealing with. Right now, though, they're cute and tiny, except for the queen, who would probably put you in the hospital if you looked at her. She's really big. That said, the bees are up on a shelf, that you have to climb a ladder to see, so you can see the show without actually looking at them.
I'm scared of ladders too. This will work.
beautiful image rob
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In more exciting bee news...
photo by Rob Cruickshank
Resonating Bodies is a big art, sound and research project about bees and other pollinators by Sarah Peebles, in collaboration with Rob King, Rob Cruickshank and Anne Barros. There's going to be a speaker's series with bee experts, a new bee-wasp condo on Toronto Island and an art/sound installation that L.M. will not be visiting, called Bumble Domicile. There's lots more information about the project, including the schedule for the speaker's series, at Interaccess.org. Visit Sarah Peebles' website for research images and an audio sample.
- sally mckay 7-02-2008 11:45 am
I can now add "poked a hole in a box full of angry bumblebees" to the list of things I've done in the name of art. (Actually, they weren't that angry. )
- rob (guest) 7-02-2008 3:29 pm
nice bees. Looking forward to the show!
- sally mckay 7-02-2008 3:32 pm
That image Sal posted doesn't bother me. It's those gi-normous lumbering dozy bumblebees that put me in a state of ashen-faced sickening panic, (and the sound of a bee puts me over the edge.) That said I'm not cheering for their catastrophic disappearance. I just can't ever let one in the house.
- L.M. 7-03-2008 12:19 am
Actually,LM, the ginormous lumbering bumblebees are what we're dealing with. Right now, though, they're cute and tiny, except for the queen, who would probably put you in the hospital if you looked at her. She's really big. That said, the bees are up on a shelf, that you have to climb a ladder to see, so you can see the show without actually looking at them.
- rob (guest) 7-03-2008 12:41 am
I'm scared of ladders too. This will work.
- L.M. 7-03-2008 1:10 am
beautiful image rob
- anonymous (guest) 7-03-2008 6:35 am