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Pacific Tackle:
Monterey Fish Installation
2012


Pacific Tackle installation at Monterey Fish December 2012. Viewers are given sashimi Alabcore tuna to eat and enter the walk-in Freezer to view projected videos of Albacore Alley, the fishing Excursion with Marc Alley, amongst the arrangements of caught Fish. Watch Video
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Local caught fish arranged in the Walk-In Freezer, beneath the video projections. Pacific Tackle, a series of works pursuing the Pacific Ocean as a material, site, and subject.

 

 

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Albacore Alley 2012

7:00 am • 59ºF water • 40 miles off shore
Albacore Tuna from Ocean to Mouth
Albacore Tuna Fishing Excursion with fisherman Marc Alley that ends at Chez Panisse with Head Chef Jerome Waag. Included in Pacific Tackle Monterey Fish Walkin Freezer Installation. Watch Video

     
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Swims with Fishes 2012

Projection in Monterey Fish Walk-in Freezer, Camera angle from the bottom of a pool filming swimmers the size of fishes from below.

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Pacific Puddle Pedal 2011

Video documents a jarred street puddle pedaled to and exchanged with Pacific Ocean water to make a salt water puddle on the street. Installed in fish bin.

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Horizon Line 2012-2015

Pacific Ocean Horizon Line captured from fisherman Marc Alley's boat. Static Camera shot for video projection. Included in Pacific Tackle Monterey Fish Walkin Freezer Installation.

     
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Pacific Tackle started with investigating the Pacific and Bay Area Waters in 2010 through a short documentary about Bay Area independent fisherman Marc Alley as a part of a collaboration with OPENrestaurant for OPENwater a SFMOMA off-site project at St. George Spirits in Alameda, CA. Watch Video