New Collaboration for Aganetha Dyck

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Temple Contemporary at Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia is working on a new collaboration with Aganetha Dyck.

 

For the next 6 months Aganetha Dyck will be collaborating virtually with a professional beekeeper on seven new porcelain figurines. A live hive will be set up inside the gallery at Temple Contemporary and a beekeeper will monitor, feed and maintain the hive and the in-progress artworks inside. The beekeeeper will act as Aganetha’s “assistant” and will set up a camera so Aganetha can observe 24/7 – allowing her to inform the beekeeper where to place starter comb on the figurine, where to carve out, where to add wax, and to inform him when the work is complete.

Visitors to the gallery can watch live as the bees work on the figurines that Aganetha has carefully selected, waxed and altered for the project.

Temple Contemporary has had an ongoing generative project with a hive of bees in Philadelphia for the past three years. They have a working observational hive directly in the gallery space that we invite a different artist to work with every year.