Swarm (Essaim)

by Félix Blume

2021

Swarm (Essaim)

by Félix Blume

2021

Sound creation

Immersive experience

Digital art

Sound experience

Installation

Environment

Science and technology

Visual arts

Sound creation

Immersive experience

Digital art

Sound experience

Installation

Environment

Science and technology

Visual arts

Swarm sound installation is composed by 250 small speakers, each one reproducing the sound of a flying bee. Suspended in the exhibition space, those sonic devices offer us several listening experiences ranging from the group to the individual. The visitor is invited to approach those small beings and become part of the swarm, in an immersive sonic experience with the bees. It’s then possible to listen to those voices as many individual testimonies by these workers that tend to get unnoticed.

Other

Suitable for all audiences

Without dialogue

Update : 19/10/2023

Essaim at Domaine de Kerguéhennec (Fr, 2021)

Essaim, Domaine de Keguéhennec (Fr, 2021)

Essaim, exhibition at Marseille (2021)

Essaim, exhibition at Domaine de Kerguéhennec (Fr, 2021)

Essaim, exhibition during Festival Maintenant (Rennes, Fr, 2021)

Essaim, exhibition during Métaboles (Marseille, Fr, 2021)

Essaim, exhibition at Musée Réattu (Fr, 2022) (Léo Aupetit)

Essaim, exhibition during Campo Base (It, 2022)

Essaim, exhibition during Sonic Acts Amsterdam (Nl, 2021) (Amie Galbraith)

Essaim, exhibition at EKKM (Tallin, Ee, 2023) (Paul Kuimet)

Essaim, exhibition during Donau Festival (Au, 2023) (Sascha Osaka)

Essaim, exhibition at Domaine de Kerguéhennec (Fr, 2021)

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Exhibitions: Jeanne Barret (Marseille, Fr, 2021), Domaine de Kerguéhennec (Vannes, Fr, 2021), Festival Maintenant! (Rennes, Fr, 2021), Wilde Westen (Kortrijk, Be, 2021), Biennale Une 5ème Saison (Aix en Provence, Fr, 2022), Hear Here (Leuven, Be, 2022), Musée Réattu (Arles, Fr, 2022), Campo Base Festival (Val d’Ossola, It, 2022), Sonic Acts (Amsterdam, Nl, 2022), Donau Festival (Krems, Au, 2023), Sonic Protest (Paris, Fr, 2023), Abbaye de l’Escaladieu (Tarbes, Fr, 2023), Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (Tallinn, Ee, 2023),

Press: Point Contemporain (Fr), Anonymal TV (Fr), Radio Canal B Rennes (Fr), Meeting with Félix Blume during Maintenant festival at Rennes (Fr), Swarm presented in Kortrijk during the exhibition Sound Art in Public Spaces (Be), We Make Money Not Art (En), Immédiats (Fr), Contemporanéité de l’Art (Fr), Neo2 (Es),

Production: D.D.A Contemporary Art (Constance Juliette Meffre)
Co-production: M2F Créations / Lab Gamerz, Domaine de Kerguéhennec & Musée Reáttu
Participation of DICRéAM (CNC)
Collaboration with beekeeper Dominique Hardouin and 250 bees
Conception of the recording studio and the sonic devices: Grégoire Lauvin
Conception of the sonic devices version 2: Guillaume Stagnaro
Assistant: Arthur Thomas
Assistant for the installation: Louis-Marie Ropars and Félix Neumann
Post-Production Assistants: César González, Alejandro Díaz
Coordination and technical riders: Ana Medina
Many thanks to Luce Moreau, Paul Destieu, Sara Lana, Cleo Verstrepen, Andres Blume, Marie-Christine Cabanas, Guillaume Stagnaro, Thomas Hardouin, Lucas Compagnoni, Louis-Marie Ropars, Eric Mezan and Yoav Yaron.
Pictures: Yoav Yaron, Constance Juliette Meffre, Luce Moreau, Arthur Thomas, Louis-Marie Ropars and Félix Blume.