Animation Film “El Zumbido de Baláam Kaab”
House of Similarities
A conversation on inter-species communication and collective care with Ariel Guzik, Julián Dzul Nah, and Abrahán Collí Tún
14. September 2023
19.30-21.30
19.30-21.30
Save the Date
for free
all ages welcome
in Spanish/in English
In conversation with Ariel Guzik, artist and founder of the Laboratorio de Investigación en Resonancia y Expresión de la Naturaleza (Nature Expression and Resonance Research Laboratory), we get an insight into his artistic work, and his research on interspecies communication.
Ariel Guzik's work is based on the desire to create, through different forms of communication – from reading and sending signals to the invention of instruments and languages, moments of encounter between the living beings that inhabit the earth. Thereby it is not about the translation and interpretation of behaviors and languages, or ways of domestication, but about a "re-enchantment" of a human-centered world. It is about imagination, about wonder and amazement, and about this brief moment when the gazes of two living beings cross and perhaps a connection, an understanding begins.
In the frame of the collaboration with Spore and in dialogue with Meliponiculturists, Ariel Guzik created the Casa de Semejanzas (House of Similarities) – a proposed home for the stingless Melipona bee.
As a second part of the evening, in an exhibition tour with the artist and anthropologists Abrahán Collí Tún and Julián Dzul Nah, we will learn more about a very special bee, and a culture of inter-species care that has been maintained in some Maya communities in Yucatán since pre-colonial times.
Casa de Semejanzas is part of the exhibition U JUUM BÁALAM KAAB the humming of the guardian bee, and can be visited through September 17, 2023. This talk marks the end of this chapter of its journey, as it returns to Maní, Yucatán, where it will join other jobones kept by meliponiculturist Doña Nebi.
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