BEE DJ in the North
Saturday 17 May 2025 6-10pm
Presented as part of The Late Shows
Jorn Ebner
A performance by Berlin-based artist, Jorn Ebner. Using bee sound samples, his live sets are both atmospheric and an invitation to dance. His captivating and colourful performance outfit is inspired by exotic wild bees and Chinese Opera. There’ll also be a bee waggle dance workshop for visitors.
Also on show, will be ‘bee opera (blues)’ (2020), a short video by the artist. Here, a character masked as a ‘forager bee’ searches around a building made of metal. The person starts to play rhythms on the façade, shortly after, others are waggle dancing. Beginning and end pay homage to the Hong Kong movie, Peking Opera Blues, directed by Tsui Hark.
Jorn Ebner (born Bremerhaven, 1966, lives in Berlin, Germany) creates imaginary realms that seem to hover somewhere between a vision of utopia and dystopia. His actions of marking and mapping in these abstracted, often virtual environments are a response to place: small gestures of trespass or disruption exploring and testing basic assumptions around notions of naturalness and artificiality. Ebner’s diagrammatic renditions of landscapes, cityscapes and journeys are designed to unsettle and challenge the idea of fixed meanings and categorisation.
As well as the exhibition at Vane, the evening also offers the opportunity to experience work by the many different creatives based at our neighbours in our home at Orbis Community – Ampersand Inventions and Atlas North East studios – across two venues at 65 High Street and West Street in Gateshead town centre, along with several other venues within a short walking distance.
The Late Shows is an award-winning late-night free culture crawl. During The Late Shows, open art studios, music and performance venues, galleries, museums, studio collectives and landmark historical buildings come together to host intriguing interactive events for visitors. It’s all about encouraging people to do something cultural with their evening.
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