The objective of the project is to permanently transform the Indo-Pakistani border into a connected landscape corridor that is unique, and provides ecological and sociocultural benefits on a regional scale. Rather than a single localized intervention, border of bees offers a repeatable and scalable series of installations along the about 1,800 mi international boundary. The project is based upon the very simple idea that free-swarming bee colonies, operating as crossborder super-organisms, can serve as examples for multicultural cooperation. It promotes investigation and reflection on the eventful history and a hopefully common future.
The cultivated product, honey, becomes the essence of the integrating landscape and will be branded as honey of hope on both sides of the border. Exhibitions in both countries will show a collection of all landscapes along the Indo-Pakistani boundary : millions of miles flown across the borders, as the ideal sum of the transnational biodiversity in countless jars of honey. By rearranging what used to be divided, the collection shows new relations: a new semiotic space is created, honey becomes the symbolic carrier of countless border stories.
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