UNDER CURRENT

Companion reader for Under Current, an exhibition and film by Alice dos Reis exhibited at Serralves Museum. With 'Blue Carbon' by Holly Childs, 'Hydrofeminism: Or, On Becoming a Body of Water' by Astrida Neimanis, 'King Tide' by Sophia Al-Maria, 'Notes on a Dotted Red Wave' by Danea Io, 'Smart Oceans, Alien Times: Octopi Engineering' by Bogna M. Konior, 'To a Current's Ear' by Alice dos Reis and more. A marine biologist is mapping one of the deepest areas of the North Atlantic Ocean, working directly with a species of krill that lives at shallow depths, using controversial biotechnology. As time passes, it creates a strong connection with the school of krill, calling into question her relationship to the non-human and the systems that mediate their contact. When we observe the world, are we observing ourselfs?