Pollinators Collective

2016 - 2018

Objects for manual pollinaton of plants, collage, video

The project suggests tools for manual pollination of plants. Helmets, gloves, rackets and other wearable gadgets are enhanced with feathers and fur and transformed into pollination tools.

Manual pollination of plants and people working together as a collective are two main focuses of this project. We humans can learn these skills from bees. The project suggests a vision of a near future where people would need to act as nature (bees and other pollinators) to sustain the environment.

Air pollution, intensive agriculture and extensive use of chemicals on fields are decreasing the number of bees, who are among the most effective natural pollinators. In case of continuous decline, we humans will need to help nature to reproduce, and in this way maintain the human species. The right of symbiosis is a political epistemic frame in which humans and non-humans share a legal common status. This is a possible way out from a current non balanced relationship between humans and other species.

Thanks to: Matevž, David, Vlatka, Ljupčo, Lucija, Mojca, Tinkara, Mateja, Rok, Tjaša, Marjetka and her neigbours.

Photographs above: Polonca Lovšin

Photographs below: Bojan Brajkovič, Mojca Grmek, Polonca Lovšin

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