Martin Bencsik has given a colony of honey bees a cello in which to set up their hive. He is researching the vibrations and sounds made by the bees using the instrument in his West Bridgford garden. He hopes to raise awareness of the deeper roots underlying the decline of the species.
Katherine Collins is a poet from Bristol. Her writing has appeared, or will appear, in The Rialto, Beyond Words Magazine, Shearsman, Finished Creatures, Ink Sweat & Tears, and Anthropocene Poetry. Her debut pamphlet, 'For the Apocalypse Team', was shortlisted in the 2020 Rialto competition.
Eleanor Morgan is a Lecturer in Fine Art. She uses printmaking, drawing, performance, sculpture and video to examine materials and processes of making across species. Her book ‘Gossamer Days: Spiders, humans and their threads’ examines the history of the human uses of spider silk, from royal underwear in Europe to sticky silk tunics in the South Pacific.
Olivier Adam is a specialist in Signal Processing and Bioacoustics, he studies the cetacea species, and especially their emitted sounds in order to inform about their behaviors, their interactions, and their distributions. He is also interested in the potential effects of human activities.
Aline Pénitot is a sailor, radio documentary writer and concrete music composer regularly praised by the press. She is engaged in art-science-environnement projects, and runs the GuiWhi (Gestural Underwater Interface Whale Human Interface) project with Olivier Adam, Fabienne Delfour and Diemo Schwartz.
