Symposium Fieldwork: Marfa N°1

Fieldwork: Marfa
Symposium March,14th and 15th 2012
at Crowley Theater, Marfa TX

Held by ESBA Nantes Métropole, HEAD — Genève
and Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam.
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In collaboration with
SKOR Foundation for Art and Public Domain,
The Netherlands.

This meeting is conceived as an international research platform dedicated to the practice of art in the public space, critical approaches to landscape/borders and artistic projects based on field investigation methods.
The program is structured around the presentation of specific projects developed on site by six artists in residence. Artists, teachers and writers from each school are invited to present their own research on complementary issues, contextualized there, in dialogue with the residents.
A series of interventions by special guests will complete the whole program, which is intended to share these numerous practical and theoretical explorations with the group of students, as well as with and a broader audience.
The symposium is accompanied by two public events: on the first evening, the opening of the exhibition which will be held at Fieldwork: Marfa Art Space, presenting the projects of the first six artists in residence; on the second evening there will be a screening of the US premiere of the audiovisual show “The Mirage of History”, preceded by talk with artist Rosa Barba (IT).

Participants
Wilfrid Almendra / artist
Etienne Bernard / ESBA Nantes Métropole
Jeroen Boomgaard / Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
Emily Verla Bovino / artist
Yann Chateigné Tytelman / HEAD — Genève
Sean Dockray / The Public School, Los Angeles
Erin Elder, Nina Elder and Nancy Zastudil / PLAND, Tres Piedras, NM
Katharina Hohmann / HEAD — Genève
Elisa Larvego / artist
Johan Lundh / curator and writer
Eden Morfaux / ESBA Nantes Métropole
Benoit-Marie Moriceau / artist
Charlotte Moth / artist
Theo Tegelaers / SKOR Foundation for Art and Public Domain
Noura Wedell / ROSKY School of Fine Arts, Los Angeles
Frank Westermeyer / HEAD — Genève.
ESBA Nantes Métropole is supported by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the Consulate General of France in Houston, Texas. HEAD ! Genève is supported
by Fondation AHEAD and Fondation Gandur pour l’Art, Geneva. Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam is advised and supported by SKOR Foundation, The Netherlands