Elizabeth Presa is a Melbourne based artist working with a range of materials and process including plaster casting, sericulture and apiculture. She is interested in the poetics of textuality, reading and writing, and sometimes collaborates with philosophers. Her sculpture installations often use the forensics of plaster to explore traces of the psyche, the environment and biological life. Elizabeth is the the Head of the interdisciplinary Centre for Ideas, at the University of Melbourne.

Her project at Youkobo is to research roof top beehives in the Ginza district in Tokyo. The beekeeping is a source of communal interaction and ecological activism for local office workers and residents. Her project will also focus on making architectural structures to provide small utopias for bees.

Date	2013.04.01 - 2013.04.30
Place	AIR2
Website	http://elizabethpresa.com/