Quantum Fish School
Zoe Todd
November 14, 2025 鈥� January 31, 2026
The Cabinet | Room 4390 鈥� SFU School for the Contemporary Arts
149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver
Opening reception: November 14, 2025 | 4:30 PM 鈥� 6:00 PM
Hours: Monday 鈥� Friday, 8:00 AM 鈥� 8:00 PM, Saturday, 12:00 PM 鈥� 5:00 PM
Fish are experts at navigating the indeterminacy of existence, surviving five mass extinctions on this planet. To this end, Leroy Little Bear invites us to 鈥榓sk the fish what scientific formulae they鈥檝e discovered鈥� in their half a billion years on this constantly changing planet. This fishy science offers us deep insights into the complex nature of existence not only on earth, but in the universe itself, upending the certainty and anthropocentrism of western modernity. Indeterminacy 鈥� the capacity to exist in probability and superposition 鈥� is the beating heart of quantum science, one that western society is still struggling to come to terms with. But as the late Vine Deloria Jr reminded the world in 1979, the quantum revolution actually brought western science and society to the starting point of non-western and Indigenous peoples. Can the fish and their formulae guide western modernity to the indeterminate and transformative future? Join their quantum fish school to find out.
Biography
Zoe Todd (she/they) is a Red River M茅tis scholar from Edmonton, Alberta who studies the relationships between freshwater fish futures and Indigenous sovereignty in Canada, with a particular focus on freshwater fish relationships in Dr. Todd's home province of Alberta. As an artist-researcher, Dr. Todd employs diverse methods including artistic research-creation, immersive social science approaches, and 'critical Indigenous fish philosophy' to help dynamic collectives assert the well-being of fish in the face of complex challenges.