RESOURCES for BECOMING INSECT

A compilation of resources for the hybrid seminar lab Becoming Insect.

  • SAL’S INSECT SCIENCE RESOURCES PAGE: CLICK
  • Becoming Insect Student Projects (past & present): CLICK

LUCY ORTA SCULPTURE

LIKA VOLKOVA

 Mobilizing resources: Reorganize production, open new action spaces by

. recircuiting the existing ones. Use the possibilities of what is considered as junk, making the leftovers of society your pool of treasures.


• Provoking the “taken-for-grantedness”: Help to make the virtual or possible imaginable and discussable. Make models and visionary prototypes. Challenge the participants’ imagination.


• Making micro-plans: Think in small steps, plan small, but be open for serendipity.
Make examples of how the single informal action might be turned into a stabilized activity and a sustainable project or business, at least resulting in richness of dignity and self-respect. Map relations and prototype protocols.


• Forming alliances: Engage participants, share resources and skills, collaborate and build assemblages together. Be a rhizome, a pack of wolves, a swarm of rats. But but conscious of its risks and take seriously the responsibilities it demands.


• Intensifying the power: Plug the project into a larger energy system, use its potentiality, connect with other lines and ride their shared power, boost the flows, accelerate the participation, celebrate a shared re-engagement.

Weavers Becoming Insect

Some images and videos from Amsterdam that might be relevant:

A large translucent print with florescent lights behind it in the Gallery
The work was addressing ecological issues in Southern California.
And nearby a video projector with throw pillows


A view of the installation
Poster for filmmaker Jan Svankmajer whose animations you might like and think of experimenting with similar approach: CLICK
Marshall McLuhan and Woody Allen: If life was only like this !

https://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/article183081126.html

http://www.guerrillagrafters.org/category/politics-of-the-graft/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdlLBWymnU

Nicholas Lampert: Machine-Animals

http://machineanimalcollages.com/

Surrealist Treehoppers

The surreal treehoppers

Post Human Art http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/05/04/science/20100504_angier.html

Maria Fernanda Cardoso

Flea Circus http://www.mariafernandacardoso.com/category/flea-circus

Butterflies http://www.mariafernandacardoso.com/category/animal-art/butterflies

Audio

Timo Khalen: SWARM audio installation

http://www.staubrauschen.de/sounddrift/

http://www.timo-kahlen.de/soundsc2.htm

http://www.naturesongs.com/insects.html

Museums

http://www.mjt.org/

http://blog.insectmuseum.org/

http://research.amnh.org/iz/

Insectropolis http://www.insectropolis.com/

Tactical Media (Yes Men SurvivaBall)

http://www.survivaball.com/

http://theyesmen.org/

Insect Sex

MicroCosmos

Green Porno with Isabella Rossellini

Literature

Art for Animals by Matthew Fuller

http://www.spc.org/fuller/texts/8/

Nabakov’s Butterflies

http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/02/21/45412327.html

Euology (Animal Collectivism)

intro: http://www.enotes.com/topic/Eusociality

Mole Rat colonies

Naked Mole-Rats or How I Learned to Stop Reproducing and Love the Queen

Bee genes are responsible for in-hive hierarchy

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-04/12/bees-social-class

Man Versus Insect

Starship Troopers

Winnipeg “bug control”

http://www.winnipeg.ca/PublicWorks/bugline/

Wax Bees & Spirituality

http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/wax/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBto_xnz2tw

DARPA (The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency)

http://www.darpa.mil/

“B” Bug Movies

THEM!:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcV78KE38J4

Wasp Women:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5zAPCwCh40

Beginning of the End : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqVL8blr-rw

The Black Scorpion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfKakOgshxw

Deadly Mantis: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKW39MUQhKE

Tarantula: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKGcgDo_ojI

Insect Camouflage: http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/course/ent425/tutorial/Ecology/camo/index.htm

iPhone fireflies: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI7yQnRy7QQ&feature=player_embedded

Cloaca apparatus that digests and shits: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdlLBWymnU

John Heartfield Photoshop Metamorphosis mash-up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSWRJLFbrPY

Stan Brackhage MothLight 16 mm Film:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaGh0D2NXCA

Edward O. Wilson on Insect Societies http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97848794

A Brief History of the Superorganism: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/07/a-brief-history/

Recommended Books

Insect Media. An Archaeology of Animals and Technology. Jussi Parikka.

The Dada Cyborg: Visions of the New Human in Weimar Berlin. Matthew Biro

The Animal That Therefore I Am (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy). Jacques Derrida

Animal Capital: Rendering Life in Biopolitical Times (Posthumanities). Nicole Shukin

The Affect Theory Reader.  Melissa Gregg.

Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things. Jane Bennett.

Guerrilla Metaphysics: Phenomenology and the Carpentry of Things. Graham Harman;

The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation. Jacques Ranciere.Becoming Insect Syllabus FALL 2017

Faith Wilding Womb Room 1972