Fish Story Memphis: Memphis is the center of the world

Aviva Rahmani ()

Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, 2014, vol. 4, issue 2, 176-179

Abstract: In this article, artist Aviva Rahmani describes her methodology for an ecological art project about environmental restoration in Memphis, TN. The city of Memphis attracted her because it is in the middle of the third largest watershed in the world on the Mississippi River, the sixth largest river on earth. Fish Story was a transdisciplinary collaboration with paleoecologist Dr. James White and wetlands biologist Dr. Eugene Turner for Memphis Social, a citywide exhibition. The project launched May 4, 2013, and culminated with an installation that opened to the public May 11, 2013. It was a test for Rahmani's Trigger Point Theory, an approach to environmental degradation that locates nucleation sites to catalyze bioregional restoration for large degraded ecosystems. The Fish Story goal was to identify trigger points in Memphis and explore their activation. Fish were identified as iconic taxa, whose welfare reflects the welfare of the waters humans depend upon. As fish go, so go people. The story of fish is the story of our human future. Copyright AESS 2014

Keywords: Transdisciplinary; fish habitat; Mississippi water basin; Trigger Point Theory; nucleation; performing ecology; participatory mapping; Anthropocene era; Geographic Information Systems; GIS science (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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