Anastasia Eggers

Brexit Herring traces shifting dynamics in herring fishing following the UK's departure from the EU. It focuses on the changes within a fishing community on the east coast of England, who, along with many others, were promised a “sea of ​​opportunity” by the Fishing for Leave campaign, replete with hundreds of thousands of tons of fish. Instead, with access to only a fraction of those stocks and few future prospects, they have been left alone to navigate this new sea of ​​opportunity.

Migrating Seasons is an attempt to redraw the farmers' almanac according to the contemporary post-seasonal world, where the growing, harvesting, and consuming of food is no longer dependent on natural factors. The post-seasonal almanac looks at agricultural practices and their interdependence with phenomena such as the trans-European movement of workers and goods, international politics, labor rights, and energy supply.

Anastasia, Ioana, Max, and Yacinth will share their experience about their fieldwork as pickers in Belgium and the Netherlands. Using a series of objects and memorabilia connected to this fieldwork, they will touch upon aspects of seasonality and labour, cohabitation and land, as well as how their experiences have influenced their creative research.