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Pestival 2009 was a multi-disciplinary experiment which culminated in a 3 day festival from 4th-6th September at London’s Southbank Centre.
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Southbank Centre Square
The Termite Pavilion
Friday 4 September 2009 - Sunday 6 September 2009
The Termite Pavilion is a sensational walk - in structure inspired by the organic forms surrounding the central chimney of a Namibian termite mound.
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Festival Terrace
The Mobile Brownfield Site
Friday 4 September 2009 - Sunday 6 September 2009
Artist Bob and Roberta Smith rescues part of the new Olympic development plot which is being built on a disused ex-industrial space, known as a brownfield site.
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Entrance to Spirit Level
BeeCab
Friday 4 September 2009 - Sunday 6 September 2009
Is it a bee? Is it a cab? No it's BeeCab. One bee works its entire five-week life span to provide one twelfth of a spoonful of honey. So let's give the bees a free ride and celebrate London beekeeping.
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The Clore Ballroom
The Horned Skullship
Friday 4 September 2009 - Sunday 6 September 2009
London-based artist Tessa Farmer uses insect carcasses, plant roots and other found natural materials to create The Horned Skullship, a hanging installation depicting a nightmare fairytale.
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The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall
Not-Doing
Friday 4 September 2009 - Sunday 6 September 2009
Metamorphosis and change are key to human and insect life and remind us we co-exist and are part of the same planet. Artist Jane Wafer creates human-sized chrysalises which represent this similarity and difference.
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Level 2 Foyer
The Decayed Book
Friday 4 September 2009 - Sunday 6 September 2009
Book artist Mark Cockram, in collaboration with Amoret Whitaker at the Natural History Museum, exhibits the remains of books made using traditional materials and adhesives and have been designed to be digested by hide beetles, Dermestes maculatus, in order to turn it into a sculptural object in a piece of Entomological Etymology.
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The Clore Ballroom Balcony
The Urban Insect Garden
Friday 4 September 2009 - Sunday 6 September 2009
Discover how to encourage nature back into your city life and meet the experts for some top tips on how to recreate your own insect garden at home.
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Southbank Centre
Resonance104.4FM
Friday 4 September 2009 - Sunday 6 September 2009
Broadcasting live from Pestival, Resonance104.4fm is the world's first radio art station, established by London Musicians' Collective. Resonance104.4fm features programmes made by musicians, artists and critics who represent the diversity of London’s arts scene, with regular weekly contributions from nearly two hundred musicians, artists, thinkers, critics, activists and instigators.
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The Front Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall
Bee Social
Friday 4 September 2009 - Sunday 6 September 2009
For one weekend only, Pestival transforms The Front Room at Queen 'Bee' Hall into a giant bee hive, a place for all to learn and discuss the colony collapse disorder. Come listen to the talks, discussions as well as a special duet performance by the Royal Festival Hall’s resident bees with guest peformers.
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The Yellow Room, Spirit Level
Movements of Parts Within
Friday 4 September 2009 - Sunday 6 September 2009
Watch as a large cockroach is slowly transported by hundreds and hundreds of small energetic crazy ants.
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Slow Food Market
Friday 4 September 2009 - Sunday 6 September 2009
Pestival brings in the harvest with Slow Food London and celebrates the pollinators who make it possible.
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Foyer Bar- Level 2
Pestival 2009 - Information Point
Friday 4 September 2009 - Sunday 6 September 2009
Welcome to Pestival 2009, where we celebrate insects in art, and the art of being an insect. Meet here to find out more about this 'rare and wonderful celebration of the creepy crawly.' (The Independent)
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Front Room
Thomas Truax
Friday 4 September 2009
A nominee for Britain's 2008 Indy Music Award for best live act, Truax is making a name for himself by building his own instruments from gramophone horns and pull-string toys.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Robyn Hitchcock and his Friends
Friday 4 September 2009
Robyn Hitchcock and his friends play a selection of his own and other insect-related songs with added sound effects, including clicks, rubbings and hisses.
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Queen's Walk
Insect ID Tent
Saturday 5 September 2009 - Sunday 6 September 2009
Come and meet all your favourite insect charites and societies under one tent, take your insect photos to be identified, learn about local greenspaces and collect your Southbank Centre insect survey card.
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Queen's Walk
Meet the Water Insects
Saturday 5 September 2009 - Sunday 6 September 2009
Millions of people have a relationship with the Thames but not so many stop to think what goes on below its surface. The London Wetland Centre Team are on hand with explainer tanks filled with insects found living in the River Thames.
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Queen's Walk
Insect Circus Museum
Saturday 5 September 2009 - Sunday 6 September 2009
Stroll up! Stroll up for the Magnificent Insect Circus Museum! Housed in a vintage Bedford TK Beetlebox lorry, this unique museum displays a stunning array of costumes, props, puppets, toys and ephemera from the extraordinary collection of the Insect Circus Society.
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Royal Festival Hall Foyer, Level 2 Blue Side
Why Me?
Saturday 5 September 2009 - Sunday 6 September 2009
Dr. James Logan and his team at Rothamsted Research Laboratory have developed a new theory to explain why some people are more attractive to mosquitoes and midges than others, which might help further research into major international health problems.
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Spirit Level
Insect Detectives
Saturday 5 September 2009 - Sunday 6 September 2009
Take part in solving crime with the forensic entomology team from the Natural History Museum. Meet Dr. Martin Hall and Amoret Whitaker, insect experts who are often called on to assist the police in cases of suspicious death.
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Blue Room, Spirit Level
The Art of being a Maggot
Saturday 5 September 2009 - Sunday 6 September 2009
Watch maggots paint and learn how they smell, with the university of Manchester’s celebrity maggot man Dr Matthew Cobb and students.
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Spirit Level
Make an Insect Book
Saturday 5 September 2009 - Sunday 6 September 2009
Meet Studio 5 Bookartists and learn how to make your very own insect book.
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Yellow Room, Spirit Level
Chrysalis Making Workshop
Saturday 5 September 2009 - Sunday 6 September 2009
Join artist Jane Wafer in a workshop to construct beautiful butterfly chrysalises.
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The Clore Ballroom
Praying Mantis Kung Fu
Saturday 5 September 2009
The Praying Mantis Kung Fu School demonstrate the most ancient form of Kung Fu, based on the principle moves of the Praying Mantis.
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Purcell Room
Bio-design Talk
Saturday 5 September 2009
Come and find out how we learn from insects.
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The Clore Ballroom
Insect Zoo Show
Saturday 5 September 2009 - Sunday 6 September 2009
Meet our Science partners London Zoos and their traveling live insect show.
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Purcell Room
Termite Technology
Saturday 5 September 2009
Find out how leading engineers, architects and designers are learning new ways of thinking and working from termites.
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Yellow Room, Spirit Level
Insect Mask Making
Saturday 5 September 2009 - Sunday 6 September 2009
Make your own insect super power mask to take home with Pestival Artist in Residence Noburu Tsubaki.
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The Clore Ballroom
Noburu Tsubaki
Saturday 5 September 2009 - Sunday 6 September 2009
In Japan, insects take on signficant meanings and super powers and are wrapped up in folklore and TV cartoons of legends.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Robin Ince
Saturday 5 September 2009
An evening of insect-inspired cabaret presented by comedian Robin Ince and guests.
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Purcell Room
Vanishing of the Bees
Saturday 5 September 2009
Vanishing of the Bees explores the mysterious collapse of the honey bee population across the planet and its greater meaning to humankind’s relationship with the natural world.
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Purcell Room
The Hellstrom Chronicle
Sunday 6 September 2009
A rare screening of the scarily convincing 1971 Oscar-winning cult classic Hellstrom Chronicle.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Chris Watson - Cross Pollination
Sunday 6 September 2009
Internationally acclaimed sound recordist for BBC’s Life in the Undergrowth and original member of Cabaret Voltaire, Chris Watson, curates an evening of experimental insect music.
