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Not Illegal Fishing Competition
- TypeInstallation
- ParticipantEmbassy of the North Sea
- VenueCasa Gomis
Not Illegal Fishing Competition, 2024 © Sheng-Wen Lo, Leon Lapa Pereira and Harpo't Hart for the Embassy of the North Sea. Photo © Manifesta 15 Barcelona Metropolitana / Helena Roig
Founded on the principle that the sea belongs to itself, the Embassy of the North Sea – an international collective of artists, lawyers, ecologists and scientists – makes political space for the sea's emancipation through connection, imagination and representation. Today's most pressing ecological issues transcend borders and species, yet we mostly approach them from the nation-state perspective. The Embassy of the North Sea highlights how the lives and livelihoods of more-than-human beings are insufficiently and ineffectively represented, jeopardising humans and other entities alike.
Invited to take part in the Manifesta 15 pre-biennial research process, the Embassy studied the impact of pollution, desalination and the presence of introduced species in the wetlands and rivers of Barcelona. Subsequently, from the 11th to the 14th of July 2024, the collective organised the Not Illegal Fishing Competition in the Llobregat River.
With the Not Illegal Fishing Competition, the Embassy of the North Sea addresses issues of care and responsibility for non-humans with whom we live entangled in our urban ecosystem. The competition confronts us with a conflict that is ubiquitous in the environmental movement, which pits ecological system thinkers against animal rights activists. This conflict is reflected in Catalan law. On the one hand, there is a law that obliges fishermen to kill any invasive species that they catch. On the other, there are laws prohibiting cruelty and violence against animals. The Not Illegal Fishing Competition opens this messy and enmeshed world of negotiations between human and more-than-human interests.
From the 10th of October, the Embassy of the North Sea is showing the outcome of their desalination research at the Disseny Hub Barcelona.
2024
Mixed media installation
Dimensions variable
Courtesy of the collective
Commissioned by Manifesta 15 Barcelona Metropolitana
SSupported by Mondriaan Fund and the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to Spain
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