{"id":23725,"date":"2022-06-03T12:23:46","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T11:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bonnierskonsthall.se\/?post_type=bonnier_exhibition&p=23725"},"modified":"2026-03-07T17:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T16:09:09","slug":"cooking-sections-undamming-rivers","status":"publish","type":"bonnier_exhibition","link":"https:\/\/bonnierskonsthall.se\/en\/utstallning\/cooking-sections-undamming-rivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooking Sections \/ Undamming Rivers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Cooking Sections \/ Undamming Rivers<\/h2>\n\n\n

31 aug \u2192 30 oct 2022<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Bonniers Konsthall presents spatial practitioners Cooking Sections, and their most expansive exhibition to date. Using installation, performance and video, they explore the ongoing environmental crisis in relation to how to eat and live as humans change climates. Undamming Rivers<\/I> is the culmination of a long research process that explores global food supply chains, and their impact on Swedish ecologies.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Structured as a performative installation, a play in four acts, the exhibition features a trilogy of large-scale works and a new site-responsive commission. Taking salmon as the common thread, these four pieces focus on the impact of food and energy production based on extractive systems that push the environment to the verge of collapse.<\/p>\n

Shown together for the first time, the trilogy When [Salmon Salmon [Salmon]]<\/em> 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<\/em>, questions what colours we expect in our \u2018natural\u2019 environment. It asks us to examine how our perception of colour is changing as we change the planet. Salmon: Traces of Escapees<\/em>, 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<\/em>, subjects the audience to the automated feeding mechanism of the salmon farm. The piece 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 feedlots.<\/p>\n