Tonight, we went along to a barbecue that Ines Lindner and the students at the Muthesius Kunsthochschule in Kiel (see previous post) were holding on a piece of wasteground off Köpenicker Straße by the Spree. Ines invited me as one of the artists that had been involved in the workshop series this year (sadly her last year there).
About 10pm, the usual fauna of students, artists, punks and ne’erdowells (an American singer with a small team trying to shoot a video for his song) on this wasteground was plagued, not to say inundated by swarms of feisty bee-looking beetles which the Germans correctly identified as Maikäfer or Cockchafers (melolontha melonontha).
We left hurriedly in a cloud of said insects, sad not to see the eclipse of the full moon that was promised tonight, but happy to be buzzed by such benign beings. It freaked Soph and myself out a bit but Ruby wasn’t at all fazed.