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I am Salmon, Breathing Game, 46 W.I.P. was presented as part of Relate North 12, an exhibition and symposium exploring the theme "New Genre Arctic Art Education." Alongside the installation, Lin Ni facilitated a participatory workshop, extending the project into a space for public dialogue and collective learning.
The project emerged from a series of underwater explorations conducted in the Tenojoki River, the Kemijoki River, Liu Qiu (Taiwan), and Nusa Penida (Indonesia). Using salmon migration as a narrative thread, the work reflects on species migration, bodily transformation, and the ways in which waters connect diverse geographical, historical, and political contexts.
The exhibition combines installation and a two-channel video projection, layering underwater footage, field recordings, sound, and narration. Through these overlapping materials, salmon become a perceptual lens through which to explore colonial histories, environmental change, energy infrastructures, and more-than-human relationships.
I am Salmon continues Lin Ni's long-term artistic research on Planetary Water, approaching water as a fluid medium that traverses national borders, species boundaries, and systems of knowledge. The work invites viewers to reconsider the continuously evolving relationships between humans and the more-than-human world. See Non-locality of Water in Publications.
One of the two-channel video projections, The Water Carries Me (video excerpt here), was nominated for the Chi Po Lin Documentary Film Award within New Taipei City Documentary Award in 2023.