fieldmeeting

Parable of the Garden

Hosted at Multiple Locations USA, Asia, Europe
2014 - Present

Press Release

NYT Parable Review

Curatorial Statement

Parable of the Garden Press Release

FIELD MEETING Take 1: Critical of the Future Take 2: Thinking Performance Take 3: Thinking Practice Take 4: Thinking Projects TThinking Collections Signature Forum of Asia Contemporary Art Week Take 1: Critical of the Future (2014) Take 2: An Afterthought (2015) Take 2: Thinking Performance (2015) Take 3: Thinking Practice (2016) Take 4: Thinking Projects (2017) Take 5: Thinking Collections (2019) Hosted at Multiple Locations USA, Asia, Europe (2014 - Present) The Metropolitan Museum, Performa, Venice Biennial, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, SVA MA Curatorial Practice (SVA Theatre) Hunter College Art Gallery & Alserkal Avenue in Dubai The acclaimed annual forum for arts professionals, FIELD MEETING is an exhibition that emulates the experience of a studio visit on a large communal scale. It aims to nurture and develop lecture-performance as an important contemporary art medium. The forum has staged the process and activities of over 300 of the world’s top creative minds (artists, curators, philosophers, novelists, scientists, architects, filmmakers, poets etc) through newly commissioned performances, lecture-performances, provocative talks and lively discussions. An exclusive audience of 5000 curators, museum directors, collectors and art connoisseurs has attended 6 iterations of FIELD MEETING. Presented practitioners include: Holland Cotter, Tom Finklepearl, Heman Chong, Nikhil Chopra, Bassem Saad & Edwin Nasr, Marwa Arsanios (Beirut), Laura Barlow, Simon Fujiwara, Taus Makhacheva, Philip Tinari, Hajra Waheed and Brian Kuan Wood (New York) among many others. For Curatorial Statements for each edition, synopsis, video-recordings & full list of presenters see: here

Works Documentation

Installation View

Nikhil Chopra, 'Rouge,' Performance. Morning Notes: Day 1. Morning Notes: Day 1. FIELD MEETING Take 6: Thinking Collections (25 January 2019), in collaboration with Alserkal Avenue, Dubai. Courtesy of Asia Contemporary Art Week (ACAW).

Ranbir Kaleka, 'Miraculous Non-Events,' Talk. Morning Notes: Day 1. FIELD MEETING Take 6: Thinking Collections (25 January 2019), in collaboration with Alserkal Avenue, Dubai. Courtesy of Asia Contemporary Art Week (ACAW).

Moe Satt, 'F n' F (Face and Fingers),' Performance. Afternoon Notes, Day 1. FIELD MEETING Take 6: Thinking Collections (25 January 2019), in collaboration with Alserkal Avenue, Dubai. Courtesy of Asia Contemporary Art Week (ACAW).

Bassem Saad & Edwin Nasr, 'This Ritual I Wish You Could See (Render and File),' Lecture Performance. Afternoon Notes, Day 1. FIELD MEETING Take 6: Thinking Collections (25 January 2019), in collaboration with Alserkal Avenue, Dubai. Courtesy of Asia Contemporary Art Week (ACAW).

Bassem Saad & Edwin Nasr, 'This Ritual I Wish You Could See (Render and File' (2018). HD video still. FIELD MEETING Take 6: Thinking Collections (25 January 2019), in collaboration with Alserkal Avenue, Dubai. Courtesy of Asia Contemporary Art Week (ACAW).

Sam Samiee, 'Adab: Collecting within Chaos,' Talk (Audience). Evening Notes, Day 1. FIELD MEETING Take 6: Thinking Collections (25 January 2019), in collaboration with Alserkal Avenue, Dubai. Courtesy of Asia Contemporary Art Week (ACAW).

River Lin, '20 Minutes for the 20th Century, but Asian,' Performance. Afternoon Notes: Day 2. FIELD MEETING Take 6: Thinking Collections (26 January 2019), in collaboration with Alserkal Avenue, Dubai. Courtesy of Asia Contemporary Art Week (ACAW).

Closing Performance: Arahmaiani, 'Breaking Words.' Evening Notes: Day 2. FIELD MEETING Take 6: Thinking Collections (26 January 2019), in collaboration with Alserkal Avenue, Dubai. Courtesy of Asia Contemporary Art Week (ACAW).