Laura Del Vecchio
Artist Statement
Buzzing Against Collapse explores the transformative potential of multispecies storytelling and response-ability in the face of planetary precarity. Centered on an affective autoethnographic encounter with Damià Sinfreu, an allergic yet devoted Andorran beekeeper, this research examines how care unfolds between humans and more-than-human beings through distance, vulnerability, and ethical entanglement. Rather than offering prescriptive outcomes, the study reflects on how research itself is reshaped when nonhuman agencies—bees, animals, mountains, and more—are recognized as active participants. Drawing on theories from Haraway, Tsing, and Plumwood, the concept of “buzzing” emerges as both metaphor and method: a way of listening to the unsettling, disruptive signals that challenge anthropocentric knowledge. By foregrounding the human as prey—vulnerable, finite, and embedded—this work resists extractive paradigms and proposes storytelling as a situated, reciprocal act of world-making. In doing so, it seeks alternatives to narratives of inevitable collapse through relational, ethical, and co-created practices of care.