Trout Fishing in America and Other Stories Asu Art Museum

Bryndís Snæbjörnsdóttir and Mark Wilson, from Trout Fishing in America and Other stories, 2014. Image courtesy of the artists.

October two, 2014–January 17, 2015

ASU Art Museum
Arizona Land Academy's Herberger Institute for Pattern and the Arts
51 East 10th Street
Tempe, Arizona 85281

asuartmuseum.asu.edu

In an historic period of uncertainty, artists Bryndís Snæbjörnsdóttir (Iceland) and Marker Wilson (U.k.) investigate the balances and tipping points in human intervention in nature. The exhibition, Trout Fishing in America and Other stories , examines how ecologies tin change radically as a result of tiny individual actions by human or other agents. Over a two-yr menses, they explored scientific conservation initiatives in Arizona and, taking a notional "vertical slice" through the Grand Canyon, they focused on the reintroduction of two endangered species—the Humpback Chub, native to the Colorado River, and the California Condor, whose zones of flight extend from the Canyon to the Vermilion Cliffs and into Utah.

This project is the artists' commencement in the US and the title references Richard Brautigan's 1967 novellaTrout Fishing in America. Brautigan's tales, anecdotes and poetic ruminations bring alive our relationship to water and things institute in water, elegizing a way of wonder in our dealings with environment. Snæbjörnsdóttir and Wilson'southward exhibition investigates tensions and cooperation among scientific, public, and corporate stakeholders in how nosotros consider nature in our management of wild and public lands. In their videos, photographs and site-specific installations, the artists capture the complexity of groups all vying for their specific interests and ideas concerning the hereafter of endangered species. We hear about the demise of the Humpback Chub due to the introduction of trout in the Colorado River in the 1920s and subsequent building of the Glen Coulee Dam 50 years ago this year. The diverse groups involved—anglers, biologists, park rangers, water authorities and the general public—provide sometimes overlapping and sometimes competing perspectives on these animals and their futures.

Scientists make of nature a laboratory, focusing on locations and species for the collection and processing of hard data. As artists, Snæbjörnsdóttir and Wilson broaden the enterprise past inviting a range of associated humans and nonhumans to the chat and deploying melancholia, speculative and creative agencies. They consider the scientific piece of work within cultural and social contexts. The exhibition provokes wonder about man-animate being interactions through strategies of sense of humour, contradiction, absurdity, surprise and lateral (rather than direct) representation. Co-ordinate to the artists, Trout Fishing in America and Other stories was conducted, "in a combined spirit of respect, reportage, mischief, verse and imagination."

Since 2001, Snæbjörnsdóttir and Wilson take been making work in response to the uncertainty in relationships between animals and humans. Their inquiries have touched on extinction, colonialism, the naming of things, pet habitats, urban pest control and hunting, among other concerns. The mutual thread is the examination of inconsistencies in our human relationships with other species, and the insights garnered by an examination of the margins where civilization and nature overlap. Previous projects have taken them to other kinds of "desert," from Spitsbergen and Greenland in the Arctic to Australia's Ruby-red Heart. For more data, visit www.snaebjornsdottirwilson.com.

Trout Fishing in America and Other stories was co-curated by Dr. Ron Broglio, associate professor, Department of English, and Heather Sealy Lineberry, senior curator and associate manager, ASU Art Museum. Assistance provided past Ty Fishkind, curatorial intern. Educational programs managed by Andrea Feller, curator of teaching, ASU Art Museum. The artists' research was greatly assisted by Jane Rodgers, Dirt Nelson and Melissa Trammell of the National Park Service; Chris Parish and Eddie Feltes of The Peregrine Fund; and Dr. Thomas Dowling, School of Life Sciences, ASU. Technical assist was provided by David Robert.

The project was supported by a research grant from the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability at ASU. Additional support generously provided by the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation; Arizona Game and Fish Department Heritage Fund; Academy of Cumbria, United kingdom; the Helme Prinzen Endowment; The Steele Foundation; the City of Tempe; the Higher of Liberal Arts and Sciences; ASU Section of English and the ASU Art Museum Creative Impact Board.

For more information, contact Juno Schaser, ASU Art Museum public relations:
T +1 480 965 0014 / [email protected].

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