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Fisher Center LAB Biennial

Cooking Sections: When [Salmon Salmon [Salmon]]

A three-part performance installation

October 13–16, 2022

Add to Calendar2026-05-12 6:37 pm2026-05-12 6:37 pmEDTCooking Sections: When [Salmon Salmon [Salmon]]

Part 1 • Salmon: A Red Herring
Lecture performance
Location: Sosnoff Stage
Commissioned by Art Now, Tate Britain

Part 2 • Salmon: Traces Of Escapees
Immersive video installation
Location: Sosnoff Stage Right
Commissioned for the 2021 Turner Prize Exhibition

Part 3 • Salmon: Feed Chains
Performative installation
Location: Tower Storage
Co-commissioned by Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm and Fisher Center at Bard

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.