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The Termites

We have been collaborating with other species by caretaking, feeding and collecting traces of termite nests on Shodo Island since 2022.

For Taoyuan we envision expanding the scale of these micro-relations between humans and other species for humans to experience life as an insect within the local coastal ecosystem.

This social sculpture artwork "Nest: Traces" by The Termites (James Jack, Masashi Echigo, Elica Masuya,Yi Qian Chan & Qiutong Zhai) engages with archival traces of more than human species in the coastal marine ecosystems of Taoyuan. As artist symbionts we turn as humans to work with living archives composed of footprints from horned ghost crabs, blue striped hermit crabs, squirts, algae, birds, barnacles, and other multispecies kin.

  • Artwork No.S10
  • Dimensions 3 x 5 x 3 (m)
  • NoteSpecial Thanks: Bengang Elementary School
The Termites
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The Termites

The Termites (2022- ) is an artistic collective of twelve human and countless more than human members whose aim is to encourage creative interspecies relations. In symbiosis with highly social insects our individual roles aid each other to thrive as a collective we conduct artistic research on more than human ecosystems to share ways humans can learn from other species.

Scout ants James Jack (Waseda University) Masashi Echigo (Kamiyama Marugoto College) and Elica Masuya traverse the boundaries between human and other species. Harvester ants including Qiutong Zhai and Yi Qian Chan explore resonances between accessibility and expanded temporalities.

The Termites collective foster co-creation with insect, animal, vegetal and more than human kin through community workshops, artist residencies, publications, open studios, exhibits and ongoing creative experiments on Shodoshima (Seto Inland Sea, Japan).

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