Goldfish has been selected through human desire-based aesthetic selection for 1,700 years from their ancestral origin of a crucian carp. They cannot swim well, and their coloring is disadvantageous against predators. Therefore, they cannot survive under “natural” environment any longer. The challenge, which brings the goldfish to reacquire their “wildness” by regaining the characteristics of the crucian carp, is the Goldfish Liberation Movement. This biopolitical activity inverting both human aesthetics and flow of time will lead us into old love-hate dramas between human being and the goldfish. (ISHIBASHI Tomoya)
“Goldfish Liberation Movement” [2012–]
ISHIBASHI Tomoya
“Goldfish Liberation Movement”
Photo: KIOKU Keizo
Photo: KIOKU Keizo