Step into the poetic, pixelated world of hum of the blue hive

Mon. Sep. 8, 2025

Dr. Roewan Crowe's short experimental video, hum of the blue hive, will be shown as part of the group show, Tending the Wild.  Step into the poetic, pixelated world of hum of the blue hive. Inspired by Derek Jarman’s experimental film Blue, join the narrator V., as they fall into a wonderous, multispecies, multisensory world, accompanied by the sounds of dreams falling apart and liveliness in the garden. After being in the presence of the borage plant at every stage of its life to watch it sprout, grow, bud, bloom, seed itself and die; and to watch the humble bumble bee release pollen; V. comes to explore queer biomimicry for vegetal relations; co-becoming, entangled in pleasingly strange encounters. Entranced by the soundscape, the artist makes oddkin with the borage plant, a bumblebee, and Jarman who has asked similar questions, thought similar thoughts, wondered similar wonder in the space of their garden. Transformed through the mesmerizing hum of the blue hive, V. embodies her desire to be unbearably, impossibly, close to the borage plant, the bumble bee, and Jarman.

The exhibition is curated by Hannah Godfrey at the Buhler Gallery.  

Artists in the exhibition include Aganetha Dyck, Arefeh Zamani, Bev Pike, Bret Parenteau, Connie Chappel, Cullen Bingeman, Derek Dunlop, Erin Frances Brown, Jack Lauder, Justin Bear L’Arrivee, Leah Decter, Leona Herzog, Mandy Malazdrewich, Meganelizabeth Diamond, Roewan Crowe, Theo Pelmus, Toludare Toluwalope, Kiana Fontaine, and Lisa Stinner-Kun.

With associated programming and support from: Manitoba Crafts Museum and Library, Living Prairie Museum, Manitoba Museum, St. Boniface Museum, The Leaf, Bonsai Society of Winnipeg, St. Boniface Hospital Environment Sustainability Committee, Mental Health Services, McEwen Building, Dr. Champa Wijekoon, Dr. Chris Siow.

Check out this story about the bison that Living Prairie Museum is making for the exhibition!

Launch: 6-9 pm Thursday 11 September 2025

Exhibit runs from: 12 September – 14 November 2025