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Tooling Camp – Project Fielding, 2016
Tooling Camp – Project Fielding, 2016 In June 2016 Project Fielding held its inaugural Tooling Camp at the Experimental Station in the Woodlawn neighborhood of Chicago. Project Fielding is founded by Sara Black, Billy Dee, Amber Ginsburg and Donesha Thompson. We consider building to be a gesture of craft, which by nature is slow, requires…
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Boundary Plants, 2015-16
Boundary Plants, 2015-16Giovanni Aloi, “Why Look at Plants” Boundary Plants is a series of paintings interrogating the implications of possible anthropogenic effects on ecological systems, in this case concentrations of radiation born of industrial scale energy production. The paintings Fear Daisy and Japanese Persimmon depict plants, the Chrysanthemum leucanthem commonly know as the “oxeye daisy” and…
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Attention Feeder, 2016
The Attention Feeder, 2016Sector 2337, Chicago, IL The Attention Feeder is a two hour collective exercise in prolonged attention. We will begin by creating a shared vocabulary for use during a series of guided narratives on the interwoven relationship between living, nonliving and human perception, as a way to perceive in less anthropocentric ways. Texts included…
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Le Museé du Grand Dehors (The Museum of the Great Outdoors) – North America, Ongoing
Le Museé du Grand Dehors (The Museum of the Great Outdoors), 2013- ongoingSara Black, Amber Ginsburg and Charlie Vinz Le Museé du Grand Dehors (The Museum of the Great Outdoors) is a sculptural work that uses a tree as the conceptual lens through which we critically examine and expand our experience of western, human-centered notions…
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Tinker Town: Brokenness is Openness
Tinker Town: Brokenness is Openness, 2015Museum of Contemporary ArtFamily Day WorkshopChicago, ILwith Raewyn Martyn Tinker Town: Brokenness is Openness, was a workshop created for child participants at the MCA’s Family Day. Raewyn Martyn and Sara Black created an open landscape of full scale tables adjacent to an area on the floor filled with disassembled and broken…
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Project Fielding
Project Fieldingprojectfielding.org Project Fielding is founded by Sara Black, Billy Dee, Amber Ginsburg and Donesha Thompson. We consider building to be a gesture of craft, which by nature is slow, requires commitment, repetition and revision, much like social change. Richard Sennett, writing in the The Craftsman, sees in the “craft of making physical things,” insight…
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Knowledge Lab, 2015
Knowledge Lab, 2015School of the Art InstituteChicago, ILIn the spring term of 2015 at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, I facilitated and instructed a class called Knowledge Lab: Entanglements with TA Noel Fetting-Smith. The following documentation presents our work together. Using the Columbus building courtyard and garden as a classroom, students will…
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19 Admirals Way, 2014-15
19 Admirals Way, 2014-15 [Design Build Workshop Leader]Cantebury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealandhttps://19admiralsway.wordpress.com The Whole House Reuse (WHR) project is organized by Rekindle, a New Zealand building waste reuse initiative established after the 2011 Christchurch earthquake. Project organizers gained access to one earthquake-damaged home that was slated for demolition, and collaborated with contractors to take the building…
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Drift, 2014
Drift, 2014Reedsburg, WisconsinWormfarm Institute’s Fermentation Fest Drift is both an autonomous intervention in the landscape and a site for exchange with residents and visitors. This floating sculptural form advances to shore on weekends where the artists will serve spring infusions made from local market farm produce harvested this fall, in frozen glacial water harvested from Exit…