Bee Time Autumn 2018

ART, ECOLOGY & SCIENCE RESIDENCY
14-28th October 2018 / Santa Lucia, Vejer de la Frontera, Spain

Superorganism

Honey bee colonies are classified as superorganisms, in which cooperating individuals in overlapping generations support functions comparable to those of cells in a multicellular organism. A superorganism is also a social organization, which transcends the biological organisms that composes it.

Artists: Fatema Abdoolcarim, Rosamund Portus, Sabina Salis, Tyler Lewis
More background info about the residents: Meet the artists

 

Projects initiated

Tyler Lewis
Sound installation by Tyler Lewis at the Miraflores water mill in Santa Lucia / A soundscape of our network of bee hives
Sound installation by Tyler Lewis at the Miraflores water mill in Santa Lucia / A soundscape of our network of bee hives

 

Rosamund Portus
Painting and collage by Rosamund Portus
Painting and collage by Rosamund Portus

 

Fatema Abdoolcarim
Intervention by Fatema Abdoolcarim - detail
Intervention by Fatema Abdoolcarim – detail
Intervention by Fatema Abdoolcarim / Returning Gold to its place of origin
Intervention by Fatema Abdoolcarim / Returning Gold to its place of origin
Intervention by Fatema Abdoolcarim - Screening at the cave of Santa Lucia, of her film 'The light that doesn't reach' / Bringing back people to the caves . ) / Photography: Tyler Lewis
Intervention by Fatema Abdoolcarim – Screening at the cave of Santa Lucia, of her film ‘The light that doesn’t reach’ / Bringing back people to the caves . ) / Photography: Tyler Lewis

 

Sabina Salis
Apparatus For Resurgence - detail from the installation by Sabina Salis
Apparatus For Resurgence – detail from the installation by Sabina Salis
Apparatus For Resurgence - detail from the installation by Sabina Salis
Apparatus For Resurgence – detail from the installation by Sabina Salis
Apparatus For Resurgence - installation by Sabina Salis
Apparatus For Resurgence – installation by Sabina Salis
Apparatus For Resurgence - detail from the installation by Sabina Salis
Apparatus For Resurgence – detail from the installation by Sabina Salis
Apparatus For Resurgence – detail from the installation by Sabina Salis / Photographs by the artist
Apparatus For Resurgence – detail from the installation by Sabina Salis / Photographs by the artist

With the support and collaboration of:
Residency funded by North West Consortium Doctoral Training Partnership (NWCDTP). With the collaboration of: Postgraduate Arts and Humanities Centre (PAHC), Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU), Be.Time S. Coop. And. y AV Pedro Esquivel

Some photos of our days together

First meetings with the bees – beetime#5
Sound installation by Tyler Lewis – beetime#5
Sound installation by Tyler Lewis – beetime#5
Bee Time Artist Residency #5, Autumn 2018 Santa Lucía
Bee Time Artist Residency #5, Autumn 2018 Santa Lucía