En Masse
Video Documentation of En Masse (image by Guy L’Heureux)
En Masse (created in collaboration with entomologist Christopher Plenzich) exhibited for six weeks (20 April-29 May, 2015) at FOFA Gallery in Montreal. The show included video installations (including the Malacosoma disstria works), handmade textiles, drawings made by caterpillars and custom lasercut glueless viewing boxes housing research insects raised on site. Chris and I inhabited the exhibition for much of the show – caring for caterpillars, chatting with visitors (and each other), hosting workshops (on silk fusion, pheromone trails, and caterpillar drawing), trying to work on thesis writing, and posting to Facebook and Twitter. Works from this show have been re-exhibited in different variations and smaller scales in multiple international group shows. (See the News page for a list of exhibitions after En Masse).
An article about the exhibition can be found here.
Presentations
- “Silk screens, caterpillars and animating an interspecies collaboration.” Screen Conference, “Screening Animals and the Inhuman” University of Glasgow, 26-28 June 2015.
- “Becoming Caterpillar: Surrealist explorations in Entomology and Media Art.” Society for Animation Studies Annual Conference “Beyond the Frame,” Canterbury Christ Church University, UK, 13-16 July 2015.
- “En Masse: The Social Animal Network.” (with Chris Plenzich) AHGSA (Art History Graduate Student Association) Annual Conference, “Constellations, Clusters, Networks,” Concordia University, 5-7 March 2015.
- “Caterpillar Choreography” CAA (College Art Association) Annual Conference, New York, 11-14 February, 2015.