[inter/meta/trans] QUEEN BEES: eco-actions and collective organizing

[The League of Imaginary Scientists]

Irene Carlson Gallery of Photography
The University of La Verne    Miller Hall
1950 Thirds Street  La Verne CA 91750
909.593.3511 x 4285  www.ulv.edu/art
Hours: M-F 9AM-9PM  Admission is free

The University of La Verne Irene Carlson Gallery of Photography presents
Queen Bees: eco-actions and collective organizing
March 21 ­ May 4, 2007
in conjunction with the university conference
Engendering Diversity and Community, March 21-23
Reception Thursday, April 26: 7-9PM  Discussion 7PM
curated by Dr. L. Hernandez Gomez of the League of Imaginary Scientists

Kim Abeles | Jacki Apple | Atico 8 | Lauren Bon | Nancy Buchanan | Roya
Falahi | Nancy Macko | Sheila Pinkel

Image:  Hexagons by Nancy Macko: Honeybox 1994 and Bees are the Souls of
Nymphs, 1994

Queen Bees:  eco-actions and collective organizing presents photographic
artwork and documentation of women artists whose varied creative lives
enunciate community.  Politically responsive and ecologically assertive, the
women artists and collectives assembled in this exhibition are vital members
of the global arts community.

The organizing and specialization within the bee colony resonates with these
artists, and has a biological corollary in a human brain that rewards
collective behavior.  In the last decade neuroscience has advanced the idea
that human beings, and women in particular, are wired to collaborate and
cooperate.  When given tasks that allow one individual to advance towards a
goal through a collaborative effort, the brain responds by activating what
are known as reward centers, producing pleasure in response to working
together.  Like social insects whose specialized instincts fulfill the
collective needs of the hive, the assembled artists thrive within and around
identified communities.

Kim Abeles  www.kimabeles.com
Jacki Apple  www.jackiapple.com
Atico 8 ­ Liz Kueneke/Margarita Pineda/Ximena Covaleda
www.hangar.org/gallery/album107; www.saladestar.com/m_pineda
Lauren Bon ­ FarmLab and notacornfield  www.laurenbon.com;
notacornfield.com; farmlab.org/
Nancy Buchanan  www.nancybuchanan.net
Roya Falahi  www.fette-gallery.com/artists/roya_falahi.php
Nancy Macko  www.nancymacko.com
Sheila Pinkel  www.art.pomona.edu/studioart/faculty/pinkel.html


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