{"product_id":"brackish-waters-jesse-birch-9781915609861","title":"Brackish Waters","description":"\u003cb\u003eOn oceanic environments through contemporary art and writing.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBRACKISH WATERS\u003c\/i\u003e is the third of three projects to engage the resource industries of Vancouver Island (mining, forestry, and fishing), through contemporary art and writing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBrackish waters mingle the fresh with the salt. Departing from industrial ports and shoreline ecosystems, this publication crosses oceanic worlds of extraction and distribution. It responds to marine environments diffracted by the perspectives of artists, writers, Indigenous Elders, fish and fishers, biologists, citizen scientists, whales, physicists, boat builders, ship workers, sailors, pirates, brittle stars, and other creatures of the deep. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNanaimo Art Gallery is located on Snuneymuxw territory, one block from the city's harbor, a place that has seen the forced displacement of Snuneymuxw villages, the arrival of precarious mine workers from China, the UK, and Scandinavia, and the World War II internment of Japanese Canadians who ran herring salteries and shipyards there. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSuch harbors have also been places of exchange, where shipping news and seafarers' stories were shared. \u003ci\u003eBRACKISH WATERS\u003c\/i\u003e serves as a similar waystation. Expanding from two exhibitions, \u003ci\u003eLandfall and Departure: Prologue\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEpilogue\u003c\/i\u003e, this publication records globally interconnected aquatic lives and histories, while considering submerged narratives and forms of cultural expression. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eContributors\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDoug Allen, Karen Barad\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003eMichael Belmore, Walter Benjamin, Jesse Birch, Ocatvia E. Butler, Heather Cameron, Peter Culley, Stan Douglas, Elissa Ferrari, Masako Fukawa, Ayesha Hameed and Tom Hirst, Maxine Harris, Roni Horn, E. J. Hughes, Lili Huston-Herterich, Dawn Johnston, Eleanor King, Roy Kiyooka, Joy Kogawa, Emily Luce and Klehwetua Rod Sayers, Xulsi'malt Gary Manson, Max Maynard, Michele Di Menna, OrcaLab, Frances Ponge, NH Pritchard, Marcus Rediker and Liz Park, Genevieve Robertson, Marina Roy, Jenni Schine and Jay White, Charles H. Scott, Allan Sekula, Jack Shadbolt, Fiona Tan, Willie Thrasher and Linda Saddleback, Tommy Ting, Hajra Waheed, Phyllis Webb. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCopublished by Nanaimo Art Gallery.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jesse Birch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1915609860\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781915609861\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Sternberg Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/24\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 120\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs","brand":"Jesse Birch","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48089502187775,"sku":"9781915609861","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bf0e3612-5fc9-4613-88d9-500f34272d0a.jpg?v=1769110665","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/brackish-waters-jesse-birch-9781915609861","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}