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Untidy Objects
Untidy Objects, 2022 – ongoingUntidy Objects, which introduces emergent growth and multispecies co-mingling, is both a sculptural and political proposition. Since the advent of this multi-year installation, a living sculpture adjacent to the Logan Center developed in conjunction with the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry and the Neubauer Collegium, the population of constituents has…
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Resistance Architecture, Sweetwater Foundation, Project Fielding, 2018
Resistance Architecture, Sweetwater Foundation, Project Fielding, 2018 Designed and built by Project Fielding teachers and participants – Resistance Architecture is an adaptable structure intended for political encampment that was designed to fulfill the needs of long-term protesters. In recognition of a political climate which demands sustained resistance, Project Fielding led a design build workshop in…
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Resistance Architecture, STOP (The Healing Village), Project Fielding, 2018
Resistance Architecture, Southside Together Organizing for Power (STOP) and the Healing Village, 2018 Project Fielding was so honored to have Resistance Architecture present at the Healing Village, an encampment on 63rd and Woodlawn in Chicago organized by STOP (Southside Together Organizing for Power) between July and October of 2018. The village was a community building…
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Forest University, 2019 – ongoing
Forest University, 2019 – ongoingThan Bok Khorani National Park, Krabi, Thailand, 2019 (in post-production)Shawnee National Forest, Illinois, 2019 (in post-production)Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve, Louisiana, 2019-2020 (in production) An ongoing interview series and audio archive created at various forest sites, the Forest University project is one that addresses the complexity of the land…
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Sudden Oak Death Symposium Workshop, 7000 Marks, 2019
7000 Marks Workshop, 2019The Seventh Sudden Oak Death Science and Management Symposium: Healthy Plants in a World with Phytophthora, San Francisco, CA For SOD7, Amber Ginsburg and I were invited to speak with a group of scientists, foresters and nursery managers who are researching and working to stop the spread of Phytophthora ramorum (SOD) in…
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Field Station 4 and Confluence Ecologies, 2019
Field Station 4 and Confluence Ecologies, 2019Mississippi. An Anthropocene River, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale IL; Carbondale Community Arts, Carbondale Community Arts; Various sites in the Cache River region of Southern Illinois; Ferne Clyffe State Park, Goreville, IL; Shawnee National Forest, Herod, IL. Field Station 4 and the Confluence Ecologies exhibition included several programs developed…
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Carboniferous Walk-About-It, 2019
Carboniferous Walk-About-It, 2019Ferne Clyffe State Park, Goreville, ILField Station 4: Mississippi. An Anthropocene River As part of Field Station 4, the Carboniferous Walk-About-It, was an example of one of Deep Time Chicago’s regular strategies, acknowledging that the Anthropocene calls for first person science, where we may derive abstract theorems from lived experience. On the second…
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Inheritance – Deep Time Chicago, 2019
Inheritance, 2019Confluence Ecologies exhibition, Southern Illinois University Beneath the rolling hills of Southern Illinois lies a fossilized section of a vast forest swamp that thrived 300 million years ago. Stretching for 100 miles along both sides of the ancient river as wide as the Mississippi, this fossil forest cuts across the heart of the Illinois…
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Resistance Architecture with #TheLetUsBreathe Collective – Project Fielding, 2019
Resistance Architecture, The Breathing Room, 2019-ongoing The Free Town Field Build was a design-build workshop organized by the teachers’ collective Project Fielding to create Resistance Architecture with and for members of the #LetUsBreathe Collective, an alliance of artists and activists who organize to imagine a world without prisons and police. Project Fielding defines Resistance Architecture…
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7000 Marks, 2016-ongoing
7000 Marks, 2016-ongoing SOD7 – Sudden Oak Death SymposiumThe PresidioSan Francisco, California In March 2016, on the first rainy day in California in two years, we felled a tanoak tree infected with Sudden Oak Death (SOD) on the Big Creek Reserve. The pathogen Phytophthora ramorum has traveled on the global nursery trade to the US.…