The Bee Boarding School is an exchange project between media artists and art educators from Karlsruhe and Majalengka (Indonesia), to which the Karlsruhe public is cordially invited. The project revolves around the Katzenwedelwiese in Bulach, an orchard close to the city that relies on neighbourly care and is home to several bee colonies. During the time of the exchange, specific billboards and advertising columns in Karlsruhe city centre mutate into potential gazes of the orchard. Taken with a modified ultraviolet camera, the ambiguous photographs invite bypassers to take part in activations that will be developed by the artists. Working in tandems Yussan Ahmad Fauzi and Lukas Marstaller, Edi Hidayat and Hanna Jurisch, Aldizar Ahmad Ghifari and Oliver-Selim Boualam, as well as Elgea Balzarie and Mira Hirtz, will develop a series of artistic interventions in the form of a sound performance, a tea ceremony, a collective walk, or a ceramic workshop taking place in mid-September on the Katzenwedelwiese. The international, long-term project explores the intersection of media art, ecosystems, permacircular education and economies and develops a curriculum for both meadow residents and neighbours.
During the exchange, three billboards in Karlsruhe city center mutate into astrophotographic gazes on the orchard, taken with a modified UV camera:
13.08. – 22.08. Advertising column on Bahnhofsvorplatz, east side
23.08. – 02.09. Advertising column on Kronenplatz
03.09. – 12.09. Advertising column on Bahnhofsvorplatz, east side
Supported by the UNESCO City of Media Arts Karlsruhe Project Funding Program for Media Arts 2023.
Shown at Media art is here (2024).
Time: 15.08.2024 – 15.09.2024
Locations: Katzenwedelwiese Bulach, St.-Florian-Straße 14
Activations:
Saturday, 14.09., 12-2 p.m.: Gado-Gado Brunch
Location: Location: Katzenwedelwiese, St.Florian-Straße (at the turning point)
☀🌧: Only with good weather
Sunday, 15.09., 4-6 p.m.: Rajah Lebah Honey Tea Ceremony
Closing the exhibition Media art is here
Location: Location: Katzenwedelwiese, St.Florian-Straße (at the turning point)
☀🌧: In case of bad weather, the ceremony will take place at ZKM | Karlsruhe
Saturday, 21.09., 5-6 p.m.: Performative Walk
As part of the Activation Day of the ZKM exhibition Fellow Travellers
Start location: Info point of ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
☀🌧: In case of bad weather, the walk will take place inside the ZKM exhibition Fellow
Travellers
Saturday, 21.09., 6.30-7 p.m.: Sound Performance
As part of the Activation Day of the ZKM exhibition Fellow Travellers
Location: Katzenwedelwiese, St.Florian-Straße (at the turning point)
☀🌧: In case of bad weather, the sound performance will take place inside the ZKM exhibition
Fellow Travellers during opening hours
Saturday, 21.09., 12-6 pm: Meet the Bee Boarding School
The Bee Boarding School is happy to welcome you on the Katzenwedelwiese and share some outcomes of their process. Come and join them throughout the afternoon!
Location: Katzenwedelwiese, St.Florian-Straße (at the turning point)
☀🌧: In case of bad weather, you can meet them inside the ZKM exhibition Fellow Travellers in the
installation Common Grounds