Waterways

Description

An art-science field trip

As sea surface temperature rises, anthropogenic infrastructures impact riverways, and large scale industrial farming disrupts fragile ecologies, salmon swim through precarious waterways. Wild salmon entangle landscapes and seascapes, from upland forests to estuaries to the open sea. Their migrations bind Scotland to Arctic Norway and Greenland, and their ecology reveals a kinship with the North Pacific and other oceans. They draw food webs together: when climate change or other human actions push on the world of plankton or (aquatic vegetation in streams) or harbour seals, the salmon feel it. And for centuries salmon have tied people to the land and sea — except for the times and places when they were used to push people away. Salmon are responding and adapting to rapidly changing environments in a variety of complex ways. The complexity and controversy of human-salmon interactions necessitates careful attention not only to the demonstrable benefits of healthy populations moving through unrestricted waters, but also to the ways in which this specific species is imagined, communicated and performed.

This workshop gathers scientists and artists who share an interest in the ecological entanglements of salmon. It aims to explore the following questions:
● How can we foster interdisciplinary approaches to salmon conservation?
● How can creative methods respond to migratory journeys, tracing, tracking and as far
as possible, travelling with wild salmon?
● How can points of transition be marked or performed

Period	7 May 2024 → 11 May 2024
Event type	Workshop
Location	Kingussie, United KingdomShow on map