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'This project coordinates social scientific and artistic methods to engage with these questions. It also moves to cultivate a shoaling-centered praxis, where shoaling occurs when fish relate in both independent and interdependent ways – akin to dolphin pods and flocks of birds. To do so, this project will pursue various routes of exploration, including “deep hanging out” with professional and citizen scientists, letter-writing to the aquatic, and the incorporation of plastic ephemera, fish sounds, and poetic reflections. Mimicking citizen science maps of microplastic water samples, it will culminate in a digital eco-archive, mapping relations across these materials. In doing so, it aspires towards a multi-sensorial, multi-perspectival piece that will form the Gulf Stream phase of this project.'