The project is imagined as a participatory, eat-art, sound installation with the theme of recording, writing, modeling, and sketching a bumblebee route. Part of the work includes thinking about food and climate neutrality. Outlining different narratives of more-than-human species, I want to materialize the puzzle of all life’s entanglement.
Over the past century, several bumblebee species have declined in range and abundance. Threats include habitat loss and fragmentation, pesticides, parasites, pathogen spillover, and climate change. Within the piece, the aim is to silently transform one’s soul and to peacefully enjoy listening and watching bumblebees. Bumblebee buzzing disappearance is a metaphor for lacking our own capabilities to center, calm, communicate, and be in the moment now with the Earth.
A central part of the project are Performative bumblebee listening walks. Within them, we’ll record bumblebee sounds, sketch their route, identify flowers and different bumblebee species, write a prose poem, and make very gentle and calm performance pieces.
nikolina butorac- climate & socially engaged artist 