Patty Chang @ Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD), Manila, Philippines

In Summoning the Vanishing Wandering Lake Parts I & II (2016), the artist washes a dead whale on Fogo Island, Newfoundland, a ritual act of reverence for things that are dead. In Summoning the Vanishing Wandering Lake Parts I & II (2016), the artist washes a dead whale on Fogo Island, Newfoundland, a ritual act of reverence for things that are dead. Then she showed the ships that were now stranded on an endless expanse of sand. In a powerful repetition, Zhang Yi began to wash boats by hand as a way to mourn the extinction of the natural environment, human livelihoods, and countless non-human species.
"American artist Patty Chang's video installation Wandering Lake series is full of poetic and political overtones. This image, projected on folded cardboard, documents Chang's search for a body of water migrating through the Chinese desert; She then heads to the shrinking Aral Sea, which has lost 70 percent of its water due to Soviet irrigation projects; She also tracked the direction of the South-to-North water diversion channel. Along the way, she stored breast milk in jars, washed sperm whale carcasses, and sprinkled bodily fluids into water pipes, linking bodily functions to geopolitical power." Then she showed the ships that were now stranded on an endless expanse of sand. In a powerful repetition, Chang began to wash boats by hand as a way to mourn the extinction of the natural environment, human livelihoods, and countless non-human species. (Quotes from ARTNews)