Be

To prepare for the Be, Wright had to learn tai chi and develop a deep meditation practice, ultimately traveling to India to receive instruction at an ashram and learn about mystics. After two years of training, the artist only had 20 minutes with the bees on her body to capture the video. Wright remembers thinking how much heat they produced when all 15,000 were on her, which is why they say a colony acts as a single superorganism.  Beekeepers often told her, if you don’t harm them, they won’t harm you and the performance speaks to the idea of being capable of violence, but the ability to remain peaceful in the face of danger.