Symbiotic Art

Harrisons: Survival Piece #3: Portable Fish Farm, 1971, six tanks of catfish, brine shrimp, oysters, and lobsters, and a performance involving a seafood feast at the Hayward Gallery, London.
“HOW BIG IS HERE?” is a question the artist duo Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison have asked themselves repeatedly over the course of their sixty-year career. It’s an ecologist’s question, one that reminds us that the living world is made up of numerous nested ecosystems. Where