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Partnerships

or How to Harvest Fruits without Sowing Seeds

The controversial evaluation report of the EU-Morocco Fisheries Partnership Agreement is a damning cost-benefit analysis showing that it is cheaper to pay Spanish fishing fleets to remain at port, than to pay for accessing Moroccan fish stocks. In addition, this report is classified, thus only accessible to members of the European Parliament’s Fisheries Committee under extremely restrictive circumstances: in the French language only, in a room accessible to one person at a time, without phone, translator, assistant or notepad.

Partnerships is a research-led archive by FRAUD, which engages with the EU-Morocco Fisheries Partnership Agreement and its devastating effects upon ‘extra-Mediterranean’ marine life, such as the exhaustion of fish stocks and local fisheries. Contextualised within a broader framework that examines the genealogy of the European Union’s extractive capitalist gaze, it cultivates the active, intercultural and critical building of a counter-colonial cosmogony.

Partnerships was developed in collaboration with Arts Catalyst, RADAR and the Istanbul Design Biennial. It received support from Art Council England and the Canada Art Council.

Exhibited at the Istanbul Design Biennial [Istanbul, TR], NEME [Cyprus], Quo Artis [Barcelona, Catalonia], Barın Han [Istanbul, TR]

More info: https://empathyrevisited.iksv.org/en/project/42-partnerships

To download the '2010 Ex-post Re-evaluation Report': https://euro-vision.net/media/site/5fa5dd0883-1646211769/idb_book-english17-fraud.pdf