Family Friendly Session
July 6-24, 2015
Picnic with the bees
Picnic with the bees
Trans-species
Marble House Project, Dorset VT
Catherine Page Harris
2015
2015
Picnic with the Bees
New video about July 2015 resident artist Catherine Page Harris' trans-species participatory experience here at Marble House Project!Read more about her project bellow."Trans-species Repast directly examines the assumptions of hierarchy in our relationship to landscape. Trans-species Repast Family Dinner is artist Catherine Page Harris’ metaphor to understand all biotic life as being at the same table on our planet. Harris’s deceptively simple gesture of sharing family dinners with animals questions complex systems of exploitation, resource extraction, and dominance. The human species has generally viewed itself in a hierarchical relationship to all species and resources on the planet.In the words of Harris’ daughter after sharing lunch with chickens, “I can eat anything I want, so I have eaten chicken before, but …it just makes a difference if you are eating lunch WITH the chicken, not THEM.”The difference Trans-species Repast Family Dinner hopes to make is to engage animals and humans at the same table to share a meal together. The Dinner extends the warmth and conversation of family dinner to the entire planet, one meal at a time. Harris offers this action to shift the dominant hierarchical paradigm and portray that we are at the same table and we have to all interact together at that table. Human and animal share the resources of the planet. Climate change, extreme weather, sea level rise are all symptoms of humanity imagining the planet’s table is set just for us.This iteration at Marble House Project was a meal set for bees, on a table Harris built from a scrap marble slab and recycled barn beams found on site. The meal included day lillies, blanched milkweed pods, home made bread, a pesto with foraged lambs quarters and thyme, arugula from the garden and day lillies, gooseberry jam with lavender from Dina Schapiro, and thyme and clover plants, and plates of local unpasteurized honey. The project was supported by build help from Seth Parker, Christophe Katrib, Daniel Lopez, and Collin Richard. Many thanks to Michael Zaretsky for architectural consultation. A deep thank you to Danielle Epstein, Dina Schapiro, and Sarah Walko for making the Marble House Project residency possible. Thank you to Christophe Katrib for capturing the event on video."
Posted by Marble House Project on Saturday, August 29, 2015
New video about July 2015 resident artist Catherine Page Harris' trans-species participatory experience here at Marble House Project!Read more about her project bellow."Trans-species Repast directly examines the assumptions of hierarchy in our relationship to landscape. Trans-species Repast Family Dinner is artist Catherine Page Harris’ metaphor to understand all biotic life as being at the same table on our planet. Harris’s deceptively simple gesture of sharing family dinners with animals questions complex systems of exploitation, resource extraction, and dominance. The human species has generally viewed itself in a hierarchical relationship to all species and resources on the planet.In the words of Harris’ daughter after sharing lunch with chickens, “I can eat anything I want, so I have eaten chicken before, but …it just makes a difference if you are eating lunch WITH the chicken, not THEM.”The difference Trans-species Repast Family Dinner hopes to make is to engage animals and humans at the same table to share a meal together. The Dinner extends the warmth and conversation of family dinner to the entire planet, one meal at a time. Harris offers this action to shift the dominant hierarchical paradigm and portray that we are at the same table and we have to all interact together at that table. Human and animal share the resources of the planet. Climate change, extreme weather, sea level rise are all symptoms of humanity imagining the planet’s table is set just for us.This iteration at Marble House Project was a meal set for bees, on a table Harris built from a scrap marble slab and recycled barn beams found on site. The meal included day lillies, blanched milkweed pods, home made bread, a pesto with foraged lambs quarters and thyme, arugula from the garden and day lillies, gooseberry jam with lavender from Dina Schapiro, and thyme and clover plants, and plates of local unpasteurized honey. The project was supported by build help from Seth Parker, Christophe Katrib, Daniel Lopez, and Collin Richard. Many thanks to Michael Zaretsky for architectural consultation. A deep thank you to Danielle Epstein, Dina Schapiro, and Sarah Walko for making the Marble House Project residency possible. Thank you to Christophe Katrib for capturing the event on video."
Posted by Marble House Project on Saturday, August 29, 2015
Trans-species Repast directly examines the assumptions of hierarchy in our relationship to landscape. Trans-species Repast Family Dinner is artist Catherine Page Harris’ metaphor to understand all biotic life as being at the same table on our planet. Harris’s deceptively simple gesture of sharing family dinners with animals questions complex systems of exploitation, resource extraction, and dominance. The human species has generally viewed itself in a hierarchical relationship to all species and resources on the planet.
In the words of Harris’ daughter after sharing lunch with chickens, “I can eat anything I want, so I have eaten chicken before, but …it just makes a difference if you are eating lunch WITH the chicken, not THEM.”
The difference Trans-species Repast Family Dinner hopes to make is to engage animals and humans at the same table to share a meal together. The Dinner extends the warmth and conversation of family dinner to the entire planet, one meal at a time. Harris offers this action to shift the dominant hierarchical paradigm and portray that we are at the same table and we have to all interact together at that table. Human and animal share the resources of the planet. Climate change, extreme weather, sea level rise are all symptoms of humanity imagining the planet’s table is set just for us.
This iteration at Marble House Project was a meal set for bees, on a table Harris built from a scrap marble slab and recycled barn beams found on site. The meal included day lillies, blanched milkweed pods, home made bread, a pesto with foraged lambs quarters and thyme, arugula from the garden and day lillies, gooseberry jam with lavender from Dina Schapiro, and thyme and clover plants, and plates of local un-pasturized honey. The project was supported by build help from Seth Parker, Christophe Katrib, Daniel Lopez, and Colin Richards. Many thanks to Michael Zaretsky for architectural consultation. A deep thank you to Danielle Epstein, Dina Schapiro, and Sarah Walko for making the Marble House Project residency possible. And to Christophe Katrib for capturing the whole event on video.
