Waves Lost at Sea maps the decade-long research practice of Cooking Sections through six commissioned essays and an extensive annotated image series, tracing how industrial food systems reshape ecology, law, and landscape at every scale.
About This Book
Founded in London by Daniel Fernández Pascual and Alon Schwabe, Cooking Sections works at the intersection of visual arts, architecture, and ecology. This book documents their investigation into the anthropogenic infrastructures that determine what we eat — artificially coloured farmed salmon, drained buffalo wetlands, ocean-filtering oysters, Sicilian tomatoes banned under EU regulations. The six newly commissioned essays move across legal fictions, queer ecologies, disappearing landscapes, and speculative taste, asking how food cultures and agricultural imaginaries are constructed, contested, and sometimes quietly erased. For practitioners and researchers at the intersection of spatial practice and environmental politics, this is essential reading.
Key Features
- 160 pages of newly commissioned essays, annotated photography, and detailed image captions
- Edited by Fundación Botín; designed by Malin Gewinner
- Case studies include farmed salmon colouration, Sicilian tomato EU regulation, buffalo wetland drainage, and oyster ocean-filtration systems
- Published alongside Cooking Sections' first exhibition in Spain at Centro Botín, Santander
- Published by Fundación Botín x Spector Books, 2021
What You'll Discover
- How industrial aquaculture artificially engineers the appearance of farmed salmon, and what this reveals about the aesthetics of food production
- The role of legal fictions — including EU food regulations — in determining which ingredients survive and which are outlawed
- Queer ecologies as a framework for rethinking the relationships between human infrastructure and non-human environments
- How Cooking Sections' research-based practice operates simultaneously at microscopic and planetary scales, connecting metabolic processes to geopolitical systems
About the Author
Cooking Sections is a London-based practice founded by Daniel Fernández Pascual and Alon Schwabe. Since 2013 their work has spanned visual arts, architecture, and ecology, investigating anthropogenic infrastructures, industrial food systems, and human-made climates. The practice was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2021.
Specifications
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 160
- Dimensions: 23 × 32 cm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9783959059107
- Publisher: Fundación Botín x Spector Books
- Publication Date: 2021
Perfect For: Architects and spatial practitioners working at the intersection of ecology and design, researchers in food systems and environmental politics, and readers drawn to Turner Prize-nominated cross-disciplinary practice.