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Plan Bienen recently travelled to Liverpool for the Libidinal Circuits: Scenes of Urban Innovation conference organised by the International Association for the Study of the Culture of Cities (Toronto) with the University of Liverpool and FACT, 8-10 July. Arriving via train, bus and … Continue reading →
31. July 2015 by Tessa
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Tags: bees, share economies |
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Last week we had the opportunity to present a paper at the Aesthetics After Finitude symposium in Sydney. Our performative lecture, ‘Disappearing Bees’, developed ideas that were percolating during our residency at ZK/U, and perhaps points towards future directions of … Continue reading →
09. February 2015 by Tessa
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Tags: Aesthetics After Finitude, bees, conferences, talks |
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[Script for parting performance presented by Sumugan Sivanesan at ZK/U, 25 September 2014] Hello and welcome to our Openhaus. All of us at ZK/U have been busily anticipating this evening’s schedule, and I would like to begin the tour by … Continue reading →
06. October 2014 by sumugan
Categories: Events, Writing |
Tags: bees, events, honey, performances, share economies |
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You are cordially invited to the Unofficial Opening of the Plan Bienen Mint. After 3 months researching real and possible relationships between people, bees, honey and time in Berlin, our time is (almost) up. We have over the summer accumulated quite a … Continue reading →
08. September 2014 by Tessa
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Tags: bees, money, notgeld, share economies |
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For anyone in Berlin this weekend, tomorrow at ZK/U is the very first ‘Gütermarkt‘ – a different kind of local market. We will be there all day with the Plan Bienen – ‘Honey Stock Exchange’. Bring something special, home-made or home-grown for your … Continue reading →
06. September 2014 by Tessa
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Tags: bees, share economies |
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‘Killer Bee’ movies emerged as a popular strain of ‘creature feature’ films in the Cold War era of the 1960s. Films such as The Deadly Bees (1966), Genocide (1968) and The Swarm (1978) established a genre based around formulaic ‘nature’s … Continue reading →
25. August 2014 by sumugan
Categories: Writing |
Tags: bees, Bruno Latour, Killer Bees, Mellifera e.V., non-human rights |
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To call ourselves geological agents is to attribute to us a force on the same scale as that released at other times when there has been a mass extinction of species. Dipesh Chakrabarty, The Climate of History: Four Theses, 2009. … Continue reading →
01. August 2014 by sumugan
Categories: Writing |
Tags: Ally Bisshop, bees, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Mellifera e.V., open source, urban beekeeping |
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The artists invite you to be part of an experimental exchange network in which self-produced honey is traded for various non-monetary things (time, skills, help etc.). Open to beekeepers and honey-eaters alike. No obligations! You can also join by loaning … Continue reading →
19. July 2014 by Tessa
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Tags: bees, exchange, language, share economies |
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Here at ZK/U we have our own little colony of bees to observe, maintained by the Moabienen Mitimkern, a team of busy young beekeepers who are bringing a number of beehives and bee-related activities to the neighbourhood of Moabit, one of … Continue reading →
24. June 2014 by Tessa
Categories: Research notes |
Tags: beekeeping, bees, Moabit, ZKU |
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During the week we met Anna, a beekeeper at Prinzessinnengarten, who wondered what it would be like to be a bee for a day. Karl von Frisch discovered that bees possess a ‘language’ through a series of experiments he began … Continue reading →
22. June 2014 by sumugan
Categories: Writing |
Tags: bees, language |
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