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FIELDCLUB develops collaborative projects that address issues relating to off-grid living, self-sufficiency and agrarian reform. Often involving other artists, scientists and philosophers, our initiatives take the form of interdisciplinary artistic research and the organisation of seminars and events.
Our main project is to design, create and interrogate, an exemplary Unit: a system of low-impact self-provision predicated on the hypothetical division of available UK land between the current UK population. The problematic complexities encountered during the physical application of this theory at FIELDCLUB's 4 acre site, has led to a growing body of projects, practical research, and the emergence of Neo-Agrosophy - a weird fusion of agriculture, futurology and contemporary philosophy.
The FIELDCLUB concept has been developed by artist Paul Chaney and researcher Kenna Hernly.
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Recent Projects:
Haifa
Hypothetical Reterritorialisation - Haifa 2012
FIELDCLUB was invited to make a Hypothetical Reterritorialisation at Haifa Museum of Contemporary Art as part of File Tranfer Protocol - an exhibition in an experimental downloadable format jointly curated by Pil and Galia Kollectiv and Sala-Manca.
New parameters for Israeli crop types, current population and land surface area were added to the FieldMachine database. Participants were asked to construct an agricultural community using the visual framework of the Piet Mondrian painting - Composition 2 (1937).
Recent News:
4th May to 7th June - Jeanine Hofland Contemporary Art, Amsterdam
THERE WAS A COUNTRY WHERE THEY WERE ALL THIEVES - Curated by Natasha Ginwala
Artists: Gary Colclough, Jasper Coppes / Stijn Verhoeff, FIELDCLUB, Gauri Gill, Pil & Galia Kollectiv, Helen Mirra Abigail Reynolds, Edward Clydesdale Thomson
'What might it mean to be overexposed to a land? Such that one is like a glacial striation on bedrock – a pattern of selfness and crystal.
The countryside is as much an imagined terrain as it is an assemblage of components: rock, crops, air, people and histories. Hence, the look and shape of land is a production of labour, industry and capital as much as it is a factor of wind speeds and sedimentary formations. This exhibition is an accumulation of fictions that are registrations of/from place, taking the form of immersive dispatches, field notes and temporal mediations.'
www.jeaninehofland.nl/