Honna Veerkamp
  • Projects
    • Audio >
      • Adaptive Response
      • A Way of Life
      • Bricks and Bees
      • Rural Civil Rights Project
      • Chosen Names Audio Project
      • Fancy Decade
      • Voices of Kings
      • Earlier Radio Features
    • Video >
      • The Hive
      • Dream Generator
      • Lately
      • Fear Tactics: Fighting for Empowered Birth
    • Installations >
      • Hello...
      • Honeybee Collectives MFA Thesis Exhibition
      • Collective Buzz
      • Telling the Bees
      • Lament to the Bees
      • Tin Tales
      • A Night in the Forest
      • Dreaming in a Shack by the Tracks
      • Threads Adrift
    • Web >
      • Mud Farm Bees
      • Bees!
    • Painting >
      • Untitled: Sadness
      • #HVpaintingaday
      • Original Topographies
      • Experimental Geographies
  • About
    • Artist Statement
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Artist Statement

PictureStill from Honeybee Collectives; image by Andrea McMurray
I see art as relational, and I use documentary and experimental strategies to tell personal stories, celebrate creative resistance, and contribute to cultural conversations. I prioritize collaboration, and I often work with repurposed materials, reframing the discarded as a creative challenge and a playful political intervention. 
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My work includes media art, painting, social practice, and interactive installations. It is grounded in a curiosity about people and our interactions with environments, and it draws on a background in documentary radio as well as fine arts. I understand part of my role as an artist as helping to expand cultural dialogs and build communities. I am reflexive about my perspective, and I do my best to ensure that my artistic choices respect subjects’ intents by building collaborative relationships with them and reflecting my work back to these storytellers. 

​Commitments to intersectional feminism and social and environmental justice influence both  the themes of my work and the ways I create. Process is as important to me as product. I trust my intuition along with my intellect, and I move between conceptual and spontaneous ways of working. I enjoy using multiple artistic approaches to research and articulate a subject, and I find interactive, multimedia art ideal for engaging participant-observers.

 
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