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the INTELLIGENT GUERRILLA BEEHIVE Hamburg (werktitel)
location hunting Hamburg
6/11/2018: meeting in Hamburg with Dirck and Gunnar
Locationhunting in Hamburg. Discussions on Art in Public Space-program with Dirck (cfr. Beuys Gesamtkunstwerk Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg and bee-information with Gunnar.
We should make a decision asap in order to plan the wood-production part of the Beehive in February the latest (check Vienna, Barcelona, Hamburg, Brussels - possible production places).
After the wood production, there will still be a lot of arrangements to make for
1. the installation on the site and especially for
2. the technology-related stuff (solarpanels, battery’s etc… but also connection to internet/router/wifi/ screens/display/sound/ ….). And as last there will be
3. Make the installation with all the research material and than, as cherry on the cake:
4. the introduction of the bees in the hive, on Workers’ day - the fist of May.
Maybe we can ask Oliver to read out loud from his CD/books Das Kapital???? A performance?
preferred artwork location
Entenwerder 1, Elbe banks, Hamburg
plants on location
Hamburg has a perfect digital service where you can see all trees in public space: strassenbaeume online. It is a perfect tool to find trees that bloom in spring and in autumn.
exhibition in Golden Pavillion
elements of the exhibition:
flatscreen streaming bees, camera hive
flatscreen sensors in/out (temperature and humidity)
maquettes, models, tests - design beehive and production beehive
tests laser engraving outside hive + growth of algae, mosses and lichen on it
foraging fields, plant samples
drawings
Beuys Gesammkunstwerkt Hamburg
literature
- D'Arcy Thompson: On Growth & Form
- The Social Behaviour of the Bees (Comparative Study) - Charles D. Michener
- Animal Architecture - Karl von Frisch
- Bee Democrcy - Thomas Seeley