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Partnerships

or How to Harvest Fruits without Sowing Seeds

EU Policy Watchtower artwork by FRAUD, wire frame metal sculpture on roof top.
'EU Policy Watchtower', FRAUD, 2020. Photo by Kayhan Kaygusuz.
Installation overview of the 'Partnerships' work by FRAUD in 2020 at the Istanbul Design Biennial, showing curtain, video and print objects.
Partnerships, FRAUD, 2020. Installation overview at ARK Kültür. Istanbul Design Biennial. Photo by Kayhan Kaygusuz.
Video still of the work 'Unclaimed Latifundium', showing the title over an image of a man kissing a large fish.
'Unclaimed latifundium: Eat more, fish further!', 2020, FRAUD. Video, 9' 20". Subtitles English and Turkish. Image: video still.
Image of the artwork 'To reap without sowing', showing a worldwide EU fishery partnership agreements map.
'To reap without sowing', 2020, FRAUD. Worldwide EU fishery partnership agreements map. Print on curtain, 3600 x 2600 mm.
Image of the Pelagic Imperialism project by FRAUD, a hair colour which shows the pelagic zone in off-white, and the rest of the ocean in blue.
Pelagic Imperialism (2021), FRAUD. The pelagic zone of the ocean (the surface 200m or top 5%) is a geo-political measure. Pelagic Imperialism is the mass extraction of sea life for profit that has fuelled the development of industrial capitalism of major empires such as Britain, Japan and the US. Pelagic Imperialism is characterised by the constant opening of new commodity frontiers in new places, and capturing new species as others become commercially extinct, and it is predicated upon a notion of oceans which has infinite bounty.
Photo of the '2010 Ex-post Re-evaluation Report' by FRAUD, print book, spiral binding, showing intervention into the EU-fisheries partnership agreement.
'2010 Ex-post Re-evaluation Report', FRAUD, 2020. Photo by Kayhan Kaygusuz.
A spread from the digital version of the '2010 Ex-post Re-evaluation Report', design by Francisca Roseiro, FRAUD, 2020.
A spread from the digital version of the '2010 Ex-post Re-evaluation Report', design by Francisca Roseiro, FRAUD, 2020.
A spread from the digital version of the '2010 Ex-post Re-evaluation Report', design by Francisca Roseiro, FRAUD, 2020.
A spread from the digital version of the '2010 Ex-post Re-evaluation Report', design by Francisca Roseiro, FRAUD, 2020.
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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