Fisher Center LAB Presents
Cooking Sections: When [Salmon Salmon [Salmon]]
When [Salmon Salmon [Salmon]] is a trilogy of performative installations tracing the effects of salmon farms on multiple ecologies. The three works focus on the impact of food production based on extractive systems that push the environment to the verge of collapse. Shown for the first time in North America, the trilogy portrays farmed salmon as a constructed animal, one of the most recently domesticated and industrialized species in history.
Part 1, Salmon: A Red Herring, questions what colors we expect in our ‘natural’ environment. It asks us to examine how our perception of color is changing as we change the planet.
Part 2, Salmon: Traces of Escapees, explores the environmental impact of salmon farms, which can be traced far beyond the circumference of open-net pens, and everything that escapes through them.
Part 3, Salmon: Feed Chains, subjects the audience to the automated feeding mechanism of the salmon farm. The piece revolves around the eco-systems that are transformed into feed, the landscapes that are fed to farmed fish and the pellets that are consumed by salmon in their feedlots.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail [email protected],
or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/cooking-sections/.
Location: Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater