Talking Fish, Singing and Dancing
Fish have taken over the city, smoking cigarettes and singing fado à desgarrada or regional vira versions. These commercials to promote frozen fish from the 1960s betray the urban context within which fish is consumed. Although fish inhabit the sea, they are also part of an extended trophic chain that ends in the city. Their consumption transforms the marine ecosystems where they live, as well the landscapes where they are eaten. These cartoons are a poignant recollection of this dynamic relationship.
— André Tavares
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André Tavares is an architect and head of the publisher Dafne Editora. He was editor-in-chief with Diogo Seixas Lopes of the magazine “Jornal Arquitectos” (2013–2015) and in 2016 co-curator of the 4th Lisbon Architecture Triennale, The Form of Form. His book The Anatomy of the Architectural Book (Lars Müller/Canadian Centre for Architecture, 2016) addresses the crossovers between book culture and building culture. He currently works as a researcher at Escola de Arquitectura da Universidade do Minho, in Guimarães, and as a consultant for Garagem Sul Architectural Exhibitions, in Lisbon.
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The series of workshops Architecture Follows Fish aims to understand the architectural phenomenon happening on the shore as the consequence of both the natural and the unnatural dynamics of the sea. It brings together architects, scholars, reporters, biologists, and authors who have dealt with a range of subjects relating to Fishing Architecture. This series of workshops is a collaboration between maat, CCB Garagem Sul, and the Fishing Architecture research group, and is an offshoot from the exhibition Our Land is the Sea: The Sensitive Construction of the Coastline (CCB Garagem Sul, 10/03–09/08/2020).
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