Un(tea)tled

By Defne Veral, Maria Hajjar, Alina Aitkalieva and Laura Slabbert

The images on the screen are up close scans of different textures of paper stained with different kinds of tea. We zoomed in on the images so that you can really see the tiny details the tea is making on the paper, to get up close and personal with our material. We then recorded conversations with our loved ones in our national languages in order to communicate tea’s ability to facilitate communication.

Making Kin with Plastic

By Nicola Lewis and Mitchell Stein

Viewing water bottles as beautiful with artistic shots contrasted with videos of the negative environmental impact they have.

Portraits of Morocco

By Marissa Driver, Hilary Etomo Mba and Francoise Adama Yansané

The object my partner and I used is a rug made in Morocco from the Berber tribes to discuss how they use their culture in everything they do.

The Collaborative World of Beeswax

By Isabelle Boies, Leah Taussky and Kathleen O’Keeffe

Beeswax is derived from the beehive itself and is sourced using unethical practices including the captivity and exploitation of bees – one of the earth’s most important pollinators – and the burning of their entire hives. Responsible for the sustainability and longevity of all life on earth, the bees are incalculably valuable in nearly every ecosystem. Beeswax is contained within the honeycomb structure and is carefully created in hexagonal shapes by the bees to store excess honey and house their young. The beeswax extraction process involves the incineration of the entire beehive and the destruction of a beautiful and fundamentally important structure.

The characteristic buzzing sound that bees make is of the utmost importance to the maintenance and survival of the hive. They use their buzzing sounds to interact, communicate threats and danger and locate each other. The sound each bee makes is unique, with smaller ones creating higher frequency sounds and bigger ones creating lower frequency sounds. Each hive, then, is a unique symphony of the bees, and constitutes a language that belongs uniquely to the bees.

The structure of the honeycomb and the hive are in themselves also a language of the bees – it is their home. 

What Grounds Us

By Rosalie Donnelly-Rheaume and Julian Shaw

An interactive project exploring the life cycle of wood and our interactions with it.

Paper Whispers

By Lili Bertrand-Vermette, Shannon Hugh, Tiffany Tshilomba and Apolline Vaillant

This installation explores the relation we have with paper, more precisely the sense of privacy and intimacy we have with paper compared to technology.