{"id":853,"date":"2017-11-04T12:17:28","date_gmt":"2017-11-04T12:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lostspeciesday.org\/?p=853"},"modified":"2017-11-04T12:17:28","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T12:17:28","slug":"bugonia-by-nessa-darcy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lostspeciesday.org\/?p=853","title":{"rendered":"Bugonia – by Nessa Darcy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Admiranda tibi levium spectacula rerum.<\/em>
\nI\u2019ll tell of tiny things that make a show well worth your admiration.<\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

– Virgil
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Bugonia is an exhibition of prints, paintings and sound art by creative entomologist Nessa Darcy. Nessa aims to reintroduce humans to their natural habitat through colourful encounters with insects. Much of the work was created during the Bee Time <\/a>artists’ residency, where a hive of diverse artists engaged with the themes of natural beekeeping and the bee\u2019s relationship with its environment, through discussion, meditation, movement, skill sharing, storytelling, art making, shamanic practices, farm visits and simply \u201casking the bees\u201d.<\/p>\n

Bugonia is an ancient ritual based on the belief that bees could be spontaneously generated from the carcass of an ox, as described in Virgil\u2019s Georgics. To the artist, it represents our tangled relationship with nature. Humans feel, simultaneously: <\/span><\/p>\n