Osmoderma barnabita is a rare saproxylic beetle that lives in hollow trees, usually oaks.
During the mating season, it emits a distinctive peach-like scent that attracts female beetles. The same scent is used in perfume compositions for humans.
So, how would we feel to wear a pleasant scent and know it literally attracts another species?
In the workshop, we will be able to smell this scent.
Dr. Ruta Spelskyte is an artist, researcher, and lecturer at Vilnius Academy of Arts. She works with alchemical structures, creating pigments, liquids, and shamanic instruments based on true and fictional stories. Her work explores living organisms, in the attempt to find balance between usage and cohabitation, imagining future worlds of intraactivity and extro science fiction. At the moment her main interest is in human geology and the octahedral geometry of magnetite.
In three different workshops, Dr. Spelskyte will introduce three different bugs and their unique properties, and explore how we use and learn from them.
Supported by the Lithuanian Culture Institute.