Super-organism exhibition

Super-organism is a multi-media, multi-sensory project by Penelope Cain, Barbara Doran and Kath Fries, exploring pattern finding and self-organising systems. The term super-organism is usually used to describe an interdependent social organisation where individuals are not able to survive by themselves for extended periods. Classically this term is applied to insects, but we are reinterpreting it more widely negotiating the interdependence of individuals and the collective nature of exchanges systems. As the anthropocentric world has become increasingly digitalised, expanded notions around super-organisms as a mode of being are becoming increasingly relevant. 

Our Super-organism project will play out as generative and responsive evolving conversations, beginning with an interest in honeybees as a typical super-organism and an indicator species of ecological change. This expands into creative engagements with human systems of economy from individual and interconnected perspectives; to systems of information exchange, from the analogue of speech and wing-vibration, to digital networks and eco-systems.

Super-organism
Penelope Cain, Barbara Doran, Kath Fries
16 October – 2 November 2019

Opening: 5–8pm Tuesday 15 October
Participatory drawing sessions: 2–4pm Saturdays 19 and 26 October
Panel discussion: 2–4pm Saturday 2 November 

Kudos Gallery: 6 Napier St, Paddington