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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.
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.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.
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
A truck carrying 12 million honey bees overturned on the highway in New Brunswick this week. The commercial bee industry has been big news lately, since so many of the bees started mysteriously dying.
Panoptic Series 2006
John Scott at Nicholas Metivier Gallery 451 King Street West, Toronto until Saturday July 26
Prayer Wheel 2008 Suzuki Katana motorcycle, aluminium, steel