Honeybee Collectives

This paper contextualizes my MFA thesis exhibition Honeybee Collectives, exploring the themes of affective interspecies relationships, human community building, expanded cinema, and socially engaged art. Honeybee Collectives is a site-specific multimedia installation about honeybees and communities that includes documentation of my first year as a beekeeper, sculpture, food, and interactive performance. This paper interweaves details about the exhibition with facts about honeybee biology, behavior, and folklore and reflections about my personal background with anti-hierarchical feminist organizing and collaboration