Resonating Bodies is a series of mixed media installations and
community outreach projects which focuses on biodiversity of pollinators indigenous to the natural and urban ecosystems of the Greater Toronto Area.
The installations illuminate aspects of local biodiversity such as bumblebee colonies and their foraging activities, ultraviolet bee vision, pollinator/plant co-evolution, solitary bee and wasp nesting life/life cycles, and colour-coded DNA barcodes (a novel new technique for species identification pioneered by Canadian researchers).
“Nest Wall” [2009-2010] is a work-in-progress.
“Bumble Domicile” highlighted distinct features of bumble bees through an observation hive, garden, visual and audio transformations, scent, touch, and biological information. This installation / community outreach project at featured works by Sarah Peebles, Rob King, Anne Barros and Robert Cruickshank created in collaboration with bee biologists and other researchers in Canada and the USA.
Bee Trading Cards were created as part of the Bumble Domicile show and were available in the gallery.
Cards are available from Pollination Canada
The following video shows flowers that grow in a virtual garden triggered by choices made by real world bees in the observation bumble bee colony elsewhere in the gallery. The images were projected on the gallery wall during the Bumble Domicile.
