Satellite programming for Pollinator Pathmaker installation
Commissioned by
YEAR
2022
TAGS
Consultancy: Events, Social media, Environmental Justice
Young Creatives
Sophie Cottle
Carlo Hornilla
Jade Ayino
In Summer/Autumn 2022 we worked with the Eden Project to create three events and a social media campaign responding to the themes of Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg’s Pollinator Pathmaker living artwork that was commissioned by the Eden Project.
We commissioned three artists from our community to host events in their local areas to engage Bristol communities and young people around themes around sustainability, rewilding and climate justice in urban spaces.
Move Makers
Sophie Cottle directed a performance with Deepraj Singh at Windmill Hill City Farm where he invited the audience to help him build a garden through movement alone.
Using the idea of mutualism and referencing the colours of Pollinator Pathmaker through props saved from landfill – the performance brought people together, got them in touch with movement and to think about the abstract meaning of words related to cultivating a garden for pollinators and humans alike.
2. Blck erth
Artist Jade Ayino led a clay workshop whilst in discussion with florist and environmental activist Elsie Harp of Divina Botanica at Bridge Farm Community in Eastville, Bristol on 26th November.
Jade and Elsie shared their thoughts around how pollinators affect their lives and the similarities between how bees interact with how community organising happens. Inspired by the themes of Pollinator Pathmaker and how their own work connects them to the cycles of nature.
This happened alongside clay making where the audience made clay portraits of each other, thereby connecting with the practical forms of making with earth and connecting with each other. The material used is a form of clay with a lot of grit that looks terracotta when raw, but fires to a dark black and is what Jade makes most of her ceramic work out of.
For the workshop we had 15 people sign up and 11 people attend, allowing for an intimate event in a quirky setting. A couple of the participants were also from the Green and Black Ambassadors programme, linking this into the wider environmental work happening across Bristol.
3. Social media campaign
In the last week of October we posted nine illustrations by Carlo Hornilla to instagram which together made up a larger artwork in the colours of the pollinator.art and the colours which pollinators see.
Contained in 5 of the illustrations were questions from our community event in July:
What would a world made just for pollinators look like? (This was directly inspired by Pollinator Pathmaker and the results of the pollinator.art algorithm)
How do you feel in natural spaces? (This was prompted by discussions of how nature enables wellbeing )
Who gives permission in green spaces?
Is curated nature better than none?
Nature is great, isn’t it humans who make it weird?
Across the week the posts reached 1,386 accounts.
