Indian Power Girls is a project by Axel Brockmann (professor and head of the honey-bee lab at NCBS Bangalore), Rajani Mani (film maker and eco activist, Bangalore) and Sebastian Marokko Walter (artist, Berlin).
In collaboration with
Aurobindo School and
Parikrama School, Bangalore, as well as the
Entomological Collection at
NCBS,
NCBS communications, and
Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Bangalore.
Wild honeybees are India’s prime pollinators. These bees work literally day and night to secure India’s food production. They can do this because of some extraordinary superpowers. Yet, since we humans destroy their homes, pollute their environment, and actively kill them, their numbers continually decline. There is urgent need to change this. The “Indian Power Girls” project aims at improving human-bee relationships and interaction.
In two
workshops, high-school students from Aurobindo and Parikrama school in Bangalore learned more about bees and their superpowers. With bee experts of the National Centre for Biological Research, they visited and observed different kinds of bees, before creating artworks on bees and their superpowers.
In a two-days
exhibition on the
NCBS/InStem campus, the results of these workshops are presented together with
Rajani Mani’s film “
Colonies in Conflict” and artworks by artists from India and Germany. The interdisciplinary, collaborative works of about
70 students, scientists and
artists on display combine artistic creativity with scientific knowledge on the superpowers of bees and human-bee relationships.
Venue:
InStem Museum on NCBS campus, Kodigehalli, Bellary Road, Bangalore 560065
Opening event:
Sunday, May 7th, 11.30 am to 2 pm
Closing event:
Monday, May 8th, 5.30 pm to 7 pm
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