John Rock, "Capped Brood"
2023
The third in a series of works that explore honeybees and the plight of pollinators. Hot beeswax is poured directly onto speakers as they play sounds derived from bees or voices talking about bees. The process, captured with video, plays back alongside 8 wax-capped speakers that sporadically struggle to project the distorted audio through their thick skins.
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