About The International Arts Pestival
Introduction
Pestival is a mobile arts festival examining insect-human interactivity in bioscience, through paradigms of contemporary art, cinema, music and comedy as well as direct scientific demonstration and educational projects.
Pestival will bring together eminent international artists and scientists and local and global communities to collaborate on cutting-edge interdisciplinary art projects, placing the natural world under the microscope in order to further public understanding of our place within the biosphere.
Vision
Pestival aims to initiate a cultural shift in the way people think, moving them towards a more integrated way of looking at the natural world. Pestival’s lasting legacy is to forge new working relationships between disciplines, communities and species.
Mission Statement
Pestival believes insects are critical to human life on Earth. With over a million insect species, they are the most diverse group of animals on Earth. And yet insects are frequently misunderstood, reviled or, at best, ignored by the majority of the human population. Pestival has set out to challenge existing stereotypes about insects and to give them their rightful place, for good and bad (vectors and pollinators), in our collective cultural consciousness.
Goals
• To provide a unique outlook, high profile context, and wide appeal for the communication of profound information through a truly accessible approach to complex and pressing issues.
• To fuse the disciplines of science and art through the understanding of insects and unite people in action and thought, enabling individuals and communities, to come together on culturally relevant issues across international boundaries.
• To put in place a legacy that allows the further development of the event and publicises the issues raised so that it can grow and be developed for the future.
Pestival Team
