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Horaica is an art-science installation that tries to enhance plants’ capability and understanding (feeling/ seeing) of our local environment through their senses. It does so through a spatial artistic installation that engages with the visitor.
The title of the artwork comes from the name of the ancient Greek goddesses who were sisters, the Horai (aka Horae, Hours) who are the goddesses of seasons and natural portions of time.
Since the time when human beings began constructing cities, we have included plants in the urban scape. Like hanging garden in Babylon, but the meaning of small pieces of nature in urban environments, urban nature, has not changed much in the past few thousand years.
There are certain plants in urban environments that have particular functions, i.e. memorial trees; religious trees such as those in the Japanese Shinto shrine1; or even plants that are displayed as artworks, such as Joseph Beuys’ 1982 project, 7000 Eichen – Stadt- verwaldung statt Stadtverwaltung (7000 Oaks – City Forestation Instead of City Administration). Plants also have practical purposes, such as acting as barriers against sand or wind, but generally, the overall function of plants has not changed in centuries. We just plant plants.
Plants are reacting to their local environment 24 hours and 7 days on a row. They are environmental sensors and at the same time have data storage characteristics. Furthermore, they recognise/react to their environment in different ways and on a different timescale than how humans recognise/react to the environment.
The artist’s ambition is to equip plants with modern technology and allow people to understand these local environments from the point of view of plants via an artistic installation experience.

2018 - 2020
Sci-art project by Akitoshi Honda

In collaboration with
Andrea Valsesia JRC Nanobiotechnoly laboratory
Diana Rembges JRC Unit Energy Security, Distribution and Markets
Joint Research Center, European Commission

ahonda.org
ec.europa.eu/jrc/
resonances.jrc.ec.europa.eu/

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