KIKK Festival

In contrast to the undeniable "natural order of things", "Ordered Nature" questions the reversive relationship between human society and animal organizations; the ascendancy of one over the other, but also the interpenetration of their systems and behaviours, whose common goal is survival. Chimeric modules, spatial conquest, the Palais Sociétaire, entomology, mimicry, utopian architecture, geometry, political system, camouflage and archaeology constitute a vast and undefined set of my various approaches to the subject.

In the heart of the hive, queens produce workers and workers produce queens. A colony of bees is therefore immortal even if the individuals who constitute it are mortal. However, the bee has now also become a symbol of the exponential degradation of natural habitats, of the general state of nature, and its certain decline. An apocalyptic scenario, an urban legend mistakenly attributed to Albert Einstein, leads the bee and its imminent disappearance towards the extinction of the human species. An ecological dystopia whose forager is central, guardian of a precarious balance, transforms the collective human imagination and its symbols of infinity. 

"The Palaces" result from the encounter between the constructions of a human imagination and those resulting from the instinct of insects. The experiments submitted to bee colonies and their engineering the plans of humanist architectural complexes, dedicated to humanity, in a utopia of solidarity and progress: the Phalanstère, a corporate palace designed by Charles Fourier in the 19th century and the Orbital Station designed in the early 20th century by the engineer Herman Potočnik known as Noordung, which would provide in space a "rescue habitat" and in which Earth gravity would be recreated.