Anouk Parmentier developed a research and artistic co-creation project based on alternative logic, coded languages, and puzzles with a sixth-grade class at the Collège de la Largue in Seppois-le-Bas.

After receiving and decrypting the coded message sent by bees, the students began corresponding with them: What are you trying to tell us? How did you manage to use the printer? The bees enigmatic replies prompted the students to explore the school grounds and investigate the empty location of the school's beehive, which is currently hibernating. To report on their research, they designed a beehive hut painted with encaustic, covered with clue objects and rebus drawings, hung in the school's Art and Culture Center. During the project, the students invented their own language to communicate with the bees, learning about wordplay and imagery, and combining painting, poetry, and performance.

The students' lecture-performance was filmed and forms part of the final installation, which can be seen at the school's Art and Culture Center in January and at the CRAC Alsace on February 13, 14, and 15, 2026.

Anouk Parmentier is a graduate of HEAR (Haute École des Arts du Rhin) in Strasbourg. Her name evokes potatoes, which is why her main activities bear the initial P, in various textures: painting (purée), performance (chips), poetry (frites). Her research is linked by sauces that make semantics slide across the tongue: sauces with the taste of symbols and puns, mixed together, upside down alphabet soup. Clever metaphors, polysemy, coincidences, and amphigouris encourage her to investigate through alternative logics.

This project is led in collaboration with Nadine Anstett, art teacher at the Collège de la Largue in Seppois-le-Bas.