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Post-Pollinator Ecologies
2025

A durational choreography capturing aerial footage of human figures moving in the regimented, algorithmic patterns of artificial pollination, a disrupted scene from a hypothetical, post-pollinators, post-extinction future. Bodies trace the grids of absent orchards, enacting a choreography of entangled labor, loss and absence. Together, the work evokes the uncanny absence of pollinators, framing the loss not as a discrete event but as a slow violence, an ongoing dissolution of the interspecies and intergenerational relationships that once sustained shared ecologies.

This video work was based on exploration of bees' dances, people's ritualistic bee dances in Lithuania's region and the "dance" of the drone - artificial pollinator robot. Intergenerational memories, present day bees population decline and future's scenarios connect through movement of the body. Bees communicate with each other through circular movements and vibrations to tell each other about nearest site of nectar and pollen, but what is left of the dance, if bees are extinct? And, if we value bees only for their function to pollinate, what is left of us, humans, are we also valued only for our function to work? Can movement of bodies become a way to communicate with the the bees and join their dance?

Video work was projected on a artificial hive, a 3D-printed artifact. From within emited a high-frequency, mechanical hum of drones, mimicking the vibrational signatures of lost pollinators, similar yet unnervingly different in tone and texture. The tension of never truly being able to replace bees unfolds.

Created in collaboration with Elena Grippo, Diana Yukari Pereira and Adam Bialek