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Locatie:Botanical Garden, Kapucijnenvoer 30 Orangerie
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Accessibility:This location is wheelchair accessible.
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Different opening hours:Closed at 18:00 in the month of April.
Swarm is an installation by French sound artist Félix Blume composed of 250 small speakers. Each speaker reproduces the sound of a single flying bee. Suspended in the exhibition space, those sonic devices offer us several listening experiences ranging from the group to the individual. The visitor is invited to approach those little bees and become part of the swarm, in an immersive sonic experience with the bees. It is then possible to listen to those voices as many individual testimonies by these workers that tend to get unnoticed. We listen to their singing, their screaming or their chatting, in the way of an aerial choir. Félix Blume has recorded the bees while foraging with a sound recording studio specifically designed for them.
2021
Production: D.D.A Contemporary Art (Constance Juliette Meffre)
Co-production: M2F Créations / Lab Gamerz & Domaine de Kerguéhennec
Participation of DICRéAM (CNC)
Collaboration with beekeeper Dominique Hardouin and 250 bees
Design and conception of the recording studio and the sonic devices: Grégoire Lauvin
Assistant: Arthur Thomas
Assistant for the installation in Rennes and Domaine de Kerguéhennec: Louis-Marie Ropars
Post-production assistants: César González, Alejandro Díaz
Many thanks to: Luce Moreau, Paul Destieu, Sara Lana, Cleo Verstrepen, Andres Blume, Marie-Christine Cabanas, Guillaume Stagnaro, Thomas Hardouin, Lucas Compagnoni, Louis-Marie Ropars, Eric Mezan, Yoav Yaron, Kruidtuin, Erfgoedcel Leuven & Groendienst Leuven