"When they went ashore the animals that took up a land life carried with them a part of the sea in their bodies, a heritage which they passed on to their children and which even today links each land animal with its origin in the ancient sea. Fish, amphibian and reptile, warm-blooded bird and mammal-each of us carries in our veins a salty stream in which the elements sodium, potassium and calcium are combined in almost the same proportions as in sea water." Rachel Carson, The Sea Around Us.
People are Nature Too is an ichthyological experiment where three demonstrations in three locations are used to consider how people relate to the city as fish relate to the sea. It uses storytelling, live drawing, real fish, people’s bodies, the lure of bait and moving through the city like a shoal of fish. It was presented as part of the Conflux festival at 4pm on Sunday, September 14th 2008 at the Center for Architecture on La Guardia Place in New York City. For further information please contact Paddy (paddybres (at) hotmail (dot) com or Fink (fionahallinan (at) gmail (dot) com). We were kindly supported by Culture Ireland.
