The
Journal Of Field Study International
In this 21st edition of
the Field Report we celebrate DADA’s centenary and MYA2016 (a year of archives
in motion) with multiple works from the Network. This edition features Ubu Roi
on the cover, a work by Alfred Jarry that caused a riot on its first
performance 120 years ago. With the election of the United States own version
of Ubu Roi we are now in treacherous times.
100 years after Cabaret Voltaire,
mail artists have created responses that include sound poetry, experiments with
words, collage, performances and political satire, all forms that the original DADA
artists played with in 1916. And in recognition of Switzerland as the first
home of DADA, Renée Magaña’s Landscape
of Residency includes Swiss fungal spores (plus one from Mexico).
The Field Report is still a tangible
traditional assemblage in a world in which art production is increasingly
digital. When Lucy Lippard published The dematerialisation
of the art object in 1973 she was considering the increasing supremacy of
conceptual art rather than digital. But today, where artforms are increasingly
dematerialised, publications such as the Field Report remind us that tangible
and material forms perform a role as singular and resonant artefacts.
This 2016 edition opens and closes
with interpretations of life and includes works that are tactile, fragile,
documentary, and sensory. In
Geelong the Retail Cargo Cult presented Thank you. Please come again, a series
of handmade shrines and in Corio they burnt a bunyip. Peter Müller has created
an inventory of plastic spoons while Anna Banana makes a record of her mail in
Artist’s Proof. Tangible artworks and snail mail defy the digitalisation of
work and materiality is still the fundamental premise of mailart.
Thanks to Uli Grohmann for sending
100 Grimm-Mail-Art documentations to supplement the Field Report. Wonderful to
see a physical documentation of a mailart project rather than a link to a blog,
which as becomes the unfortunate standard.
The Field Report is now collected
at the State Library of Queensland (thanks to Helen Cole and Christene Drewe)
and Wipe is collected at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (thanks to Peter
Kingston and Steven Miller).
Field Study began in 1993 as a way of reclaiming the
negative spaces between art and life. Activities stemming from Field Study are
emanations and group emanations are manifestations. Field Study sees each work
as a manifestation of a collective spirit. Everyone is welcome to become a
member of Field Study, irrespective of arts practice, and contribute to the
Field Report.
David Dellafiora
Field Study Emanations by
Martha Aitchison . Artpool . Anna Banana . Tiziana Baracchi
. Vittore Baroni . Horst Baur . Julian Beere . Angela Behrendt . John M Bennett
. Bev Bills . Chameleon Lectra . Victoria Cooper . RF Côté . David Dellafiora . Gracie Edwards . Phil Edwards . Peter
Ellis . Lucy Godycki . Antonio Gomez . Rob Grant . Uli Grohmann .
Karl-Friedrich Hacker . Susan Hartigan . Paul Holman . Eberhard Janke . Susanna
Lakner . Teresa Lawrence . Siggi
Liersch . Renée Magaña
. Ute Mescher . Peter Mueller . Emilio Morandi . Leo
Morrissey . Ken Naigus . Keiichi Nakamura . Jurgen O.Olbrich . Benedict
Phillips . Point d’Ironie . Glen Smith . Zoe Snyder . Doug Spowart . Angela
Stadthaus . Stangroom . State Of Being . Carol Stetser . TICTAC . Alan Turner . Sue Vallance . Daniele Virgilio
The
Field Report is the annual of Field Study International, produced since
1996 in the form of an assembling book. Artists are invited to create
an edition of 100 pages conceived as a ‘Field Study Emanation’. Works
include documentations of performances, actions, instructions,
manifestoes, journey works, tracts, rants, instructions, manifestoes,
reflections and experiments. Each issue contains the work of about fifty
artists. Size14.5x21cm, wire bound, hand stamped, numbered.
A limited number of the 2016 Field Reports are available for sale cost $60 US (includes international p+p) email for details
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