Plan Bienen: Sharing (in) the more-than-human city

[Text by Tessa Zettel & Sumugan Sivanesan; originally published 2016 in A Peer Reviewed Journal About_Excessive Research, Vol. 5, Issue 1. DARC (Digital Aesthetics Research Centre), Aarhus University, Denmark, 2016.] o  This text circulates in and around a series of honey trades, conducted by the authors as a form of artistic…

Disappearing Bees

Tessa Zettel & Sumugan Sivanesan [A version of this text was published in un Magazine 9.1, June 2015. It is part of an ongoing research project, Plan Bienen, begun by the authors at ZK/U – Zentrum für Kunst and Urbanistik, Berlin, in 2014.] At the annual beekeepers’ fair in Berlin’s Prinzessinnengarten, one Imkerin…

Plan Bienen in un 9.1

Plan Bienen, a project I’ve been developing since last year with Sumugan Sivanesan in Berlin, has led to a text co-written for the forthcoming edition of un Magazine 9.1 – for those of you South of the border it’s being launched in Melbourne on Thurs 11 June, 6pm at Gertrude Contemporary.