LAB Biennial • Cooking Sections

Fisher Center at Bard

Chair Jeanne Donovan Fisher

President Leon Botstein

Executive Director Liza Parker

Artistic Director Gideon Lester

Presents

LIVE ARTS BARD 2022 BIENNIAL
COMMON GROUND
AN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL ON THE POLITICS OF LAND AND FOOD

Curated by Tania El Khoury and Gideon Lester

Festival Producers: Caleb Hammons and Jason Collins

Biennial Curatorial Assistant: Melina Roise '21

COOKING SECTIONS
WHEN [SALMON SALMON [SALMON]]
A THREE-PART PERFORMANCE INSTALLATION

LAB CO-COMMISSION

October 13-16, 2022

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 industrialised species in history. The first installation, Salmon: A Red Herring, questions what colours we expect in our ‘natural’ environment. It asks us to examine how our perception of colour is changing as we change the planet. 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. The final chapter of the trilogy, 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.

Curator's Note

Welcome to the fourth edition of the Fisher Center LAB Biennial — a thematic festival that invites and commissions artists to create new works that grapple with some of the most pressing questions of our time.

For the 2022-23 edition we are partnering with the OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts (CHRA) to create Common Ground, a year-long international program focusing on the politics of land and food and taking place on four continents. We have commissioned new works from artists whose practices engage with food sovereignty, climate change, and land rights. Together they invite us to imagine a more equitable, sustainable, and healthful future.

Common Ground includes two four-day festivals at and around the Fisher Center – one at harvest time (October 13-16, 2022), one in the growing season (May 4-7, 2023). The harvest festival includes the US premiere of When [Salmon Salmon [Salmon]], a trilogy of performance installations by the Turner Prize-nominated Cooking Sections, and the world premiere of The Belly is a Garden, a performance and walk through the cultivated Bard Farm and the wild spaces that surround it with seed keeper and artist Vivien Sansour. The growing-season festival will include world premieres of performances and installations by Kenyon Adams and Chef Omar Tate, Tara Rodriguez Besosa, Tania El Khoury, Suzanne Kite, and Jordan Weber.

The subject matter of Common Ground is both vast and timely, encompassing ethics, politics, history, science, and aesthetics. We’ve commissioned some of the world’s most innovative artists, whose practices invite us to learn from them and join them in conversation. Taken together, the wide-ranging works they’re creating will provide audiences with a complex, multi-dimensional opportunity to explore foodways, land politics, and their central importance in sustainability, social justice, and climate action. The festival has evolved from Bard’s commitment to sustainability, advocacy, and support for marginalized communities in the region, and to the study and implementation of new directions in regenerative farming practices and food science.

Since the subjects of land and food are interconnected, Common Ground is a truly global program. In addition to the Hudson Valley festival, it includes artistic programs in Colombia (curated by Juliana Steiner), Palestine (curated by Emily Jacir), and South Africa (curated by Boyzie Cekwana), in collaboration with partner schools in the Open Society University Network. Ideas will flow between the four sites through a series of talks, classes, and sharing of knowledge. In addition to these artistic programs, CHRA and the Bard Farm have programmed a series of digital and in-person talks by artists and activists on the politics of food, farming, seed preservation, and land rights.

—Tania El Khoury and Gideon Lester

Part 1 • Salmon: A Red Herring

Part 1 • Salmon: A Red Herring

Cooking Sections, 2020

Lecture performance with the Artists: Daniel Fernández Pascual and Alon Schwabe

When [Salmon Salmon [Salmon]] opens with an exploration of the deceptive reality of salmon as a colour and as a fish. Salmon is usually thought of as pink. The colour is even called ‘salmon pink’. However, farmed salmon today would be grey. To make them the expected colour, synthetic pigment is added to their feed. The fish cannot be dyed in a standard pink tone, as it depends on how their bodies metabolise the chemical, and where they are to be shipped and sold. In Europe, market analysis shows that the preferred shade is ‘light-pink’ and so farmed salmon is coloured accordingly while in Japan, a darker pink is enjoyed more.

Salmon is the colour of a wild fish that is neither wild, nor fish, nor even salmon. But they are not alone. The changing colours of species around the planet are warning signs of an environmental crisis. Many of these alterations result from humans and animals ingesting and absorbing synthetic substances. Changes in flesh, scales, feathers, skin, leaves, or wings give us clues to environmental and metabolic transformations around us and inside us. Salmon: A Red Herring questions what colours we expect in our ‘natural’ environment. It asks us to examine how our perception of colour is changing as much as we are changing the planet.

Sosnoff Stage, Fisher Center

Friday, October 14, 2022 at 6 pm

Saturday, October 15, 2022 at 2:30 pm & 6 pm

Sunday, October 16, 2022 at 2:30 pm

Part 2 • Salmon: Traces Of Escapees

Part 2 • Salmon: Traces Of Escapees

Cooking Sections, 2021

Performative installation

Open-net salmon farms are made of holes, the key structure of these underwater feedlots. Nets prevent circulation between an inside and an outside, at least in theory. They separate and concentrate bodies in space. In circles, automated feeders spin, bodies twist, guts revolve. Through the holes, excrement, drugs, synthetic colour, and parasites billow out, polluting the surrounding waters. But even if the nets break, farmed salmon remain captive; they can no longer escape their own modified bodies.

This immersive film installation explores the environmental impact of salmon farms, which can be traced far beyond the circumference of open-net pens. Originally developed in Norway in the past decades, modern salmon companies have expanded globally into less saturated (and less environmentally restrictive) waters, ranging from Scotland to Chile, Canada or Australia. Salmon: Traces of Escapees is a recognition that nothing can be removed without leaving traces, no divestment can be disassociated from extractivism, and no domestication comes without the colonisation of the gut.

Sosnoff Stage Right, Fisher Center

Thursday, October 13, 2022 at 6 pm, 6:30 pm, 7 pm, 7:30 pm, 8 pm, 8:30 pm

Friday, October 14, 2022 at 7 pm, 7:30 pm, pm, 8:30 pm

Saturday, October 15, 2022 at 12 pm, 12:30 pm, 1 pm, 3:30 pm, 4 pm, 4:30 pm, 7 pm, 7:30 pm, 8 pm, 8:30 pm

Sunday, October 16, 2022 at 12 pm, 12:30 pm, 1 pm, 3:30 pm, 4 pm, 4:30 pm

Part 3 • Salmon: Feed Chains

Cooking Sections, 2022

Performative installation

Co-commissioned by Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm and Fisher Center at Bard

To feed is to be in loop. The final chapter of the trilogy When [Salmon Salmon [Salmon]] traces the landscapes consumed by the production of feed for salmon farms, which range from the anchovy-depleted waters of Peru, India, and Senegal to the krill-exhausted Arctic and Antarctic oceans, and the soy plantations in the deforested Amazon. Shaped as an automated feeder, a rotating arm activated when fish are hungry in salmon farms, the piece subjects the audience to the feeding mechanism in salmon farms that makes salmon swim round and round.

Salmon: Feed Chains revolves around the ecosystems that are transformed into feed, the landscapes that are fed to farmed fish and the pellets that are consumed by salmon in their pens. Pumped day and night outside human labour routines to pump up gains, the pellets are part of a sophisticated system to fake seasonal patterns of growth and rest. Feed is indeed displaced nutrients, extruded species, and exhausted spaces. Salmon are chained to their feed as much as millions of consumers worldwide are hooked to planetary flows of fish flesh.

Sosnoff Tower Storage, Fisher Center

Thursday, October 13, 2022 at 6 pm, 6:30 pm, 7 pm, 7:30 pm, 8 pm, 8:30 pm

Friday, October 14, 2022 at 7 pm, 7:30 pm, pm, 8:30 pm

Saturday, October 15, 2022 at 12 pm, 12:30 pm, 1 pm, 3:30 pm, 4 pm, 4:30 pm, 7 pm, 7:30 pm, 8 pm, 8:30 pm

Sunday, October 16, 2022 at 12 pm, 12:30 pm, 1 pm, 3:30 pm, 4 pm, 4:30 pm

Funding Credits

The Fisher Center is generously supported by Jeanne Donovan Fisher, the Martin and Toni Sosnoff Foundation, the Advisory Boards of the Fisher Center at Bard and Bard Music Festival, and Fisher Center and Bard Music Festival members, as well as by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature. Additional support for this season has been received funding from members of the Live Arts Bard Creative Council, The Educational Foundation of America, the Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and Culinary Arts, The Lucille Lortel Foundation, and the Fisher Center's Artistic Innovation Fund, with lead support from Rebecca Gold and S. Asher Gelman '06 through the March Forth Foundation.

About Cooking Sections

Cooking Sections: Daniel Fernández Pascual and Alon Schwabe

Cooking Sections examines the systems that organize the world through food. Using site-responsive installation, performance and video, they explore the overlapping boundaries between art, architecture, ecology and geopolitics. Established in London in 2013 by Daniel Fernández Pascual and Alon Schwabe, their practice uses food as a lens and a tool to observe landscapes in transformation. They have worked on multiple iterations of the long-term site-responsive CLIMAVORE project since 2015, exploring how to eat as humans change climates. In 2016 they opened The Empire Remains Shop.

Their work has been exhibited at Tate Britain, Serpentine Galleries, SALT, Bonniers Konsthall, Lafayette Anticipations, Grand Union, Atlas Arts, Storefront for Art and Architecture; the Istanbul Biennial, Taipei Biennial, 58th Venice Biennale, Sharjah Architecture Triennial, Sharjah Art Biennial, Performa17, Manifesta12, and New Orleans Triennial among others. They have been residents at Headlands Center for the Arts, California, and The Politics of Food at Delfina Foundation, London. They are part of British Art Show 9. They lead a studio unit at the Royal College of Art, London.

Cooking Sections were nominated for the Turner Prize in 2021. They were awarded the Special Prize at the 2019 Future Generation Art Prize and were nominated for the Visible Award for socially-engaged practices. Daniel is the recipient of the 2020 Harvard GSD Wheelwright Prize for Being Shellfish.

Bard College is Becoming CLIMAVORE

BARD TO BECOME THE FIRST COLLEGE IN THE WORLD TO INTRODUCE A CLIMAVORE MENU

New ‘seasons’ are gradually emerging on our planet. The lines between spring, summer, autumn and winter are increasingly blurred, while periods of drought, oceanic pollution, soil depletion, subsidence and pandemics are becoming more prevalent.

As part of COMMON GROUND: an international festival on the politics of land and food, Bard College, in collaboration with Parkhurst Dining, has joined Cooking Sections’ extensive project Becoming CLIMAVORE to find new ways of eating in response to the new seasons of the climate emergency. Launched in 2017, this long-term initiative encourages institutions to remove farmed salmon from their menus and replace it with ingredients that improve biodiversity, soil and water quality. More than twenty art institutions are already involved in the project, including Tate and Serpentine in London. In collaboration with BardEATS, the Bard Office of Sustainability, and Parkhurst Dining, Bard has removed farmed salmon from its menu and introduced new dishes made with ingredients that help environmental regeneration.

Credits & Bibliography

COMMISSIONING CREDITS

Part 1 • Salmon: A Red Herring was commissioned by Art Now, Tate Britain

Part 2 • Salmon: Traces Of Escapees was commissioned for the 2021 Turner Prize Exhibition

Part 3 • Salmon: Feed Chains was co-commissioned by Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Fisher Center LAB, and the OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts for the Fisher Center LAB Biennial.

When [Salmon Salmon [Salmon]]

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Young readers:

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Lydia McCaw, Stage Manager
John Gasper, Video
Duane Lauginiger, Adam Bach, Audio
Walter Daniels, Lighting
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In the spirit of truth and equity, it is with gratitude and humility that we acknowledge that we are gathered on the sacred homelands of the Munsee and Muhheaconneok people, who are the original stewards of the land. Today, due to forced removal, the community resides in Northeast Wisconsin and is known as the Stockbridge-Munsee Community. We honor and pay respect to their ancestors past and present, as well as to future generations, and we recognize their continuing presence in their homelands. We understand that our acknowledgment requires those of us who are settlers to recognize our own place in and responsibilities toward addressing inequity, and that this ongoing and challenging work requires that we commit to real engagement with the Munsee and Mohican communities to build an inclusive and equitable space for all.

This land acknowledgment, adopted in 2020, required establishing and maintaining long-term, and evolving, relationships with the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians. The Mellon Foundation's 2022 Humanities for All Times grant for “Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck” offers three years of support for developing a land acknowledgment–based curriculum, public-facing Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS) programming, and efforts to support the work of emerging NAIS scholars and tribally enrolled artists at Bard.

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