Telling the bees (The Game), 2025

Telling the Bees (The Game), a speculative video game, is a work currently in progress. It blends fiction with documentary elements and rural traditions. The first character introduced is the Beeseeker. Equipped with the smarologos—an ancient woven basket used to host bees—she navigates the depleted landscape of the Archipelago, ravaged by the climate crisis. The Beeseeker is on a quest to find a swardm of wild bees, believed to be extinct. Their disappearance, after millions of years on this planet, could be possibly intertwined with a broader ecological collapse.The basket becomes a metaphorical starting point to explore ways of cultivating resistance and interspecies collaboration in a rapidly transforming world. The title, Telling the Bees, refers to an old rural tradition found in various cultures, where people would inform bees of major household events, believing that failure to do so might cause the bees to abandon their home. The game is based on the eponymous multimedia installation created in 2024.