photo credit：
Installation views:Jiang Wenyi (蒋文奕)
on-site with audience: umeng
Invocation for a Wandering Lake, 2016, 12 minutes
Quote from the book The Wandering Lake(Patty Chang, 2017)
“The island of Newfoundland is situated at the easternmost point of North America. Neighboring Fogo Island is an old fishing island. Since the 1992 Canadian moratorium on cod, people do not fish there anymore for money. The lack of industry recently prompted the formation of an art residency, which was hoped to generate art tourism; the idea was that one can lead with the arts and economy would follow. The location of the residency is interesting: if you have read Mark Kurlansky’s Cod: A Biography (1997), you’ll know that the waters off Newfoundland are where the Basques came to fish for cod in the 1400s. They kept this fishing grounds secret, fearing others would follow. But the new world would not be secret for long.”
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