We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Honevo BiHemispheric a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Alright, Honevo thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. We’d love to hear about a project that you’ve worked on that’s meant a lot to you.

I am the creator of the Bionic Festival, an international dance festival, in which artists need to share the stage with plants and trees and create choreographies together with the botanical world. The Bionic Festival, after the performances have been recorded, donates the plants and trees to urban gardens, public schools and environmental organizations, managing to neutralize the production’s carbon footprint.

The Bionic Festival is a meaningful project. Through it a new dance format has been created, the bionic dance, which is co-authored between human artists and plants and trees. The festival took place in Teatros del Canal, one of most important performing arts centers in the world, and the installation that configures the mobile forest designed for the dancing, the Intergalactic Garden, is exhibited permanently in Teatros del Canal.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

Im Honevo, an artist, cultural manager, designer and philosopher. My work tries to create new artistic formats that do not pollute, or that can neutralize the carbon footprint of their production. I have created the Bionic Paintings, the Bionic Photographies and the Bionic Festival. I design planters and pots and other furnishings geared towards scenography and, through my art, I introduce the botanical world in urban environments with a futuristic aesthetic.

I try to address real world problems like the extinction of biodiversity, by pushing forward for the use of living plants in artworks and building hybrid ecosystems. Through the Bionic Festival and Bionic Dance I have created a negative carbon footprint model of cultural management, where performing arts events can serve as a tool for reforesting cities and teaching future generations about the importance of creating art with an ecological conscience.

I am very proud of the work I do with plants in my artistic projects. In creating paintings, photographies and performances that are not entirely dominated by humans I manage to escape the extreme anthropocentric nature of the traditional arts. Through my work I always try to push for a new cultural landscape, one that integrates biodiversity and the botanical world heritage as the valuable source of inspiration it really is.

Can you share a story from your journey that illustrates your resilience?

In 2019 my agent was suffering from depression and was forced to take a long break from the art world. Despite that setback I managed to keep pushing for my projects and since then I have organized four editions of the Bionic Festival, managed to get the support of sustainable companies as sponsors, and have had several exhibitions. She and I are still very close and I know that my drive in pushing for the projects we believed in it fills her with pride today.

What can society do to ensure an environment that’s helpful to artists and creatives?

I think that society needs to support artists and creative ecosystems through the creation of spaces where artists can work freely and without the extreme financial stress of having to pay for a studio. I believe public institutions should develop spaces like this for people who wish to pursue art, I think art is vital in a healthy society, and it is very difficult to access most levels of infrastructure without public support.

I also think that a way to nourish society and a thriving creative ecosystem, is through the creation of more green spaces, parks and forests. I believe these are basic initiatives that would make any community feel more connected, become healthier and more creative. It’s important to strive to create a cultural and social environment that benefits all.

Contact Info:

• Website: http://honevo.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/honevo_art/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HonevoBiHemispheric/
• Linkedin: https://es.linkedin.com/company/honevo
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/honevo
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/honevotube
• Other: https://vimeo.com/honevo/videos https://www.flickr.com/photos/honevo/

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Honevo