ART explores environmental sensitivity and speculates about forms of sustainable cohabitation and liveable futures. MVI works to support multispecies flourishing.
The Multispecies Visionary Institute (MVI), invites visitors to Gymnasium Gallery in Berwick upon Tweed, to experience an immersive body of works that is informed by sustainable land practices and spans a diverse range of media and disciplines.
This blog is an image based documentation of ART and MVI.
Yestarday we had another sucesfull, informative and inspiring online event.
We’ve heard from BeeTime, Onyx Baird and Piotr of TreeBeekeepers
Bee Time is an art and research collective creating contexts for knowledge exchange and regenerative practices inspired by the systems thinking approach of the honey bee.
Onyx Baird explores the similarities between humans and honeybees. Just as each individual bee plays her specific role within the hive with love and focus, each human being has a unique essence and treasured way in which they are here to support the collective.
The Treebeekeepers Brotherhood will share stories and images about Polish tree-beekeeping. Tree beekeepers take care of bees in a special way by trying to recreate the primeval living conditions in tree hives without interfering with the natural life cycle of the bees.
Here is a link to the recorded zoom event:
https://vimeo.com/578608691
Sabina Sallis grew up in rural Subcarpathian Poland; an area saturated by a richness of stories within stories, a land of fantastical tales and practices that allude to the interconnectedness of all things. Her upbringing has had a profound influence on her arts practice and her understanding of Multispecies Worldliness. Now based in Newcastle-upon Tyne, Sabina is currently completing a practice-led PhD at the School of Fine Arts, Newcastle University that investigates aesthetics of sustainability and multimedia visionary scenarios for sustainable futures. She focuses on sustainable land practices, permaculture, and re-indigenizing with local ecosystems through engagement with herbs, bees and hives, earth-based metaphysics, healing practices and bio-mimicry of trophallaxis as cultural praxis. Sabina has a multifaceted approach to arts provision as a researching, collaborating, exhibiting artist and as a curator. She works across mediums and disciplines, using video, photography, drawing, performance, sculpture and speculative narrative in a multimedia, trans-disciplinary way that interweaves fact and fiction. Her artistic practice explores the entanglement between the human mind, knowledge and more-than-human worlds. It speculates about an evolving aesthetics of embedded sensitivity towards life; the human embodied potential and complex, transformative aspects of sustainability aligned with the ethics of flourishing and care. www.sabinasallis.com
