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Elizabeth Presa "Apian Utopias: Architecture for Bees. Part 1: Tokyo Beehives"
Youkobo Art Space
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Elizabeth Presa
The beehive could be considered a lens through which to understand modern utopian systems of labour, design and dwelling for human beings in large cities. My project inverts this debt and makes architectural structures to provide small utopias for bees.My visit to the Ginpachi rooftop Beehives in Ginza, Tokyo has prompted this first series of beehives. The small, dark Japanese bee (Apis cerana japonica), is also hived here along with the more common European honey bees (Apis mellifera). From the high rooftops of office buildings the Ginza bees fly daily to the Imperial Palace to collect their pollen.
My precarious beehives are moulded in plaster and gauze from a single Issey Miyake paper bag. I use the prototype of the fold or pleat to question the precarity of existence that characterizes contemporary forms of social and environmental life.
Venue: Studio2
My precarious beehives are moulded in plaster and gauze from a single Issey Miyake paper bag. I use the prototype of the fold or pleat to question the precarity of existence that characterizes contemporary forms of social and environmental life.
Venue: Studio2
Schedule | Apr 25 (Thu) 2013-Apr 28 (Sun) 2013 Opening Hours Information
Opening Reception Apr 27 (Sat) 2013 18:00 - 20:00 | ||||
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Venue | Youkobo Art Space http://www.youkobo.co.jp/en/  | ||||
| Location | 3-2-10 Zempukuji, Suginami-ku, Tokyo 167-0041 | ||||
| Access | 15 minute walk from the South exit of Kami-Shakujii Station on the Seibu Shinjuku line, 20 minute walk from the North exit of Nishi-Ogikubo Station on the JR Chuo line. | ||||
| Phone | 03-5930-5009 | ||||
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