Fieldwork: Marfa

10/25/2023

Last week, Fieldwork had the pleasure to host film director Léa Bouanich, Jeanne Martinet (Director of Photography), Morgane Finkelstein (Assistant Director) and Yaël Bouanich (Director of Production) to work on their new documentary fiction shot in Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.

The film portrays several feminine-queer identities from different backgrounds who operate near the 30th Parallel North, on the borderlands between Mexico and the United States.These figures all build their trajectories by drawing on both the creative and destructive forces of light.They are in the process of resetting their practices and their territories. They decide to or not to give life.
They choose how, where and when to do so.
They cross corridors of shadows. They learn, or relearn, how to use the burning lights.

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Release date : 2024 // Stay tuned!
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09/26/2023

Please join us on Saturday, September 30 at 5pm at Fielwork: Marfa (1721 Antelope Hills Rd) for « Calor » an art installation by Northern Mexican artists Ana Marcela Torres, Gissela Gutiérrez, Nahuami, Rubí Acosta, Analaura Cárdenas, Celeste Villa, Ana Paula Ojeda and Grace Doré Luévano.

Calor is part of the seventh edition of the Festival de Arte Nuevo (FAN) “Rizoma” 2023 presented in nine municipalities of Chihuahua: Madera, Juárez, Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua, Delicias, Bocoyna, Ojinaga, Guerrero, Batopilas + El Paso and Marfa, Texas.

08/04/2023

Last open hours at MAINTENANT before summer break with a special exhibition: JE COMPRENDS FINALEMENT CETTE HISTOIRE DE CIEL EN CONFITURE by PHILIPPE TOURRIOL (Artist in Residence at Fieldwork)

See you tomorrow Saturday August 5th at MAINTENANT 6-9pm!

07/06/2023

🌵CONNOISSEURS's + KBCN's Texas Premiere at MAINTENANT 🌵

Saturday, July 8th 6:30-9PM

Come meet Karina Bisch & Nicolas Chardon, French artists in residence at Fieldwork: Marfa and fantastic art book publishers!

Talk and book launch with Tim Johnson at 7PM

Also a good time to walk around the land and experience TJ Tambellini's amazing sound piece "SIGHT Specific"!

See you on Saturday!

01/03/2022

MANUAL FOR A FUTURE DESERT IS OUT TOO !

• Edited by .soul and Bassam El Baroni, this book « proposes a full-spectrum scanning of the desert and its multiple implications across cultural, technological, political and ecological concerns. »

• « It is one of the outcomes of the program, an experimental studio and research program » who took place on Fieldwork Marfa during four years, with students from and

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LINK :

https://www.moussemagazine.it/shop/manual-for-a-future-desert/

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12/16/2021

OUR TEN YEARS RETROSPECTIVE BOOK IS OUT !

• Created in 2011 by Beaux-Arts Nantes Saint-Nazaire —site Nantes and HEAD - Genève, Haute école d'art et de design , the international art research program called Fieldwork Marfa celebrates its tenth anniversary in 2021.

• Constructed around issues provided by the small town of Marfa, in southern Texas, based on art research involving landscape, minimalism, artistic community and political challenges of borders, territories and migrations.

• This publication brings together artists, theoreticians, teachers and students who have built this dream, this Fieldwork Marfa art community. In ten years, we received 36 artist in residency, 191 students with 30 teachers and 22 invited artists.
Our heartfelt thanks go to each one of them for their enthusiastic contributions, without whom this anniversary book would never have seen the light of the day. A special thanks to all the Art and research directors , , and .soul who brought life to this project.

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GET THE BOOK : https://www.lespressesdureel.com/ouvrage.php?id=8734&menu=0

https://www.ideabooks.nl/9782372290449-fieldwork-marfa-texas-usa-ten-years-of-art-experiments

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Editions: , Paris
Publishers : Pierre-Jean Galdin / Jean-Pierre Greff
Editor : Mai Tran
Editorial coordination HEAD - Genève : Julie Enckell Julliard
Graphic design : CamilleGallet- Atelier trois, Paris
Distributed by , France

06/27/2020

Marfa is staying safe! We'll resume our activities on site when we feel it's right and when everyone is safe.

03/26/2020

APPEL A CANDIDATURE / ouvert jusqu'au 15 avril 2020

Les candidats sélectionnés bénéficieront :

> d’une exposition collective aux Beaux-arts de Nantes - Open school Galerie, du 25 juin au 10 juillet 2020

Une aide, matérielle ou financière, pour le transport sera allouée aux artistes pré-sélectionnés.
Des droits de monstration seront alloués aux artistes pour l'exposition collective.

A l’issue de l’exposition collective, le lauréat bénéficiera :

> D’une exposition personnelle dans la galerie Mélanie Rio Fluency à Nantes en 2021,
> 1500 euros d’aide à la production pour cette exposition par le fonds de dotation Katapult,
> 2500 euros pour l’acquisition d’une œuvre par le fonds de dotation Katapult,
> la possibilité d’intégrer la programmation du Voyage à Nantes pour l’édition 2021.
> Une bourse pour une résidence de deux mois à Marfa au Texas en septembre et octobre 2020, par l'association Fénélon et les Beaux-arts de Nantes.

Après examen des dossiers de candidature le comité de sélection  choisira entre cinq et dix artistes pour une exposition collective.

12/16/2019

Marie Bette and Luca Guizzo about their Fall residency at Fieldwork: Marfa

"For this residency we decided to work on two fronts. A series of sculptures made out of fabric and a mixture of clay, flour and sand that I have been using and refining for a few months. And a new instalment from a series of works ‘’objets attachés’’. This is a series of kilns that acquire a lasting relationship with the ground they are constructed on through their firing.

When we arrived in Marfa we started by collecting materials that would enrich and ground the sculpture that would later be produced. We collected fabrics, clay, prckly pears and other organic and inorganic materials. We worked with these materials, combining, dying and sawing them together to create a series of petrified sculptures. The ground around Fieldworks is like most of the desert surrounding Marfa. It is dry with scattered patches of equally dry grass that are prone to spontaneous combustion. There is a county wide fire ban in effect year round. This made the construction of a kiln and it’s firing challenging. We constructed the kiln underground to better control the fire and built a covering on top of the hole. The fire is fully enclosed and we elongated the chimney to better cool the particules that might escape.

It's not easy to spot it from afar. The low woven dome is as pale as the ground it lays on, and vanishes into it’s surroundings. It's only on approaching the construction that you discern it’s scale. To reach the kiln you’ll need to walk down along a narrow and gently slopping trench. The small room in which the kiln is build is five feets underground.

The sandy walls are enveloped in a thick layer of jute coated with clay. The slightly distorted weave of the fabric gives a certain vibrance to the walls. The kiln is built up against the back wall. On both sides, narrow openings put your sight at the level of the desert ground and let’s you observe it in a different light. Outside, the chimney crown looks like a smoky minimalist sculpture when the kiln is in use.

The hole has since been filled back up but the kiln is still usable if someone decides to unearth it."

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images. Objet Attaché #5 - sand Kiln
Clays, jute, cardboard, sand, surunding ground, long grass, brackets, bee wax, canola oil.
Marie Bette et Luca Guizzo
2019

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Clay, wheat flour, sand, cotton fabric.
Marie Bette et Luca Guizzo
2019

12/10/2019

We are extremely saddened to read about the passing of Carla Herrera-Prats, artist, mother, and educator. We are also immensely grateful to have met her and to have had the opportunity to work with her and Camel Collective in Marfa. We will not forget her intense intelligence, passionate conversations, contagious smile and laugh. She was a perpetual source of inspiration and energy and impacted the lives of many. Our thoughts and deepest condolences go to her loved ones.

Mexican conceptual artist and curator Carla Herrera-Prats, whose archival and aesthetic research focused on dynamics of the gift economy, labor theory, and their affective and technical modes of cultural expression, has died of complications due to breast cancer. She was forty-six. Born in Mexico Ci...

11/12/2019

MEET THE NEW RESIDENT / Gaëlle Leenhardt is the first Large Scale resident, a residency co-founded by Association Fenelon Beaux-arts (Nantes, France) and the cultural services of the French Embassy (Houston, Texas). She arrived mid October and will stay at Fieldwork: Marfa for a two-months program.

"The final form of the project is still unknown, but the materials that constitute it are already present: cinnabar, limestone, volcanic stones, dust, and dry clay. Extracted from Marfa’s surroundings, they are steeped in the geological history of this region. Here the strata are exposed. Time, millions, billions of years ago can be read on the rocks, in the sedimentation of the sand, in the transformation and fusion of the different materials of which this earth is made. For the first time, I am experiencing a great geological diversity in the same place; Volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, everything is readable, and traceable, on a scale that is completely new to me. A journey with a geologist, the discovery of rock paintings in hidden corners of a natural state park, dinosaur bones and fossilized wood... Cinnabar has been extracted from an abandoned mine: used as a red pigment by our ancestors to paint in caves it is also a photographic pigment, a red that turns black on contact with the sun like a photo turns black if the light flashes on the image for too long."

More information here: https://www.culture.gouv.fr/Sites-thematiques/Arts-plastiques/Actualites-du-reseau/Gaelle-Leenhardt-laureate-de-la-premiere-edition-de-la-residence-Large-Scale-a-Marfa-Texas-Etats-Unis-d-Amerique

11/12/2019

MEET THE NEW RESIDENT / Marie Bette is currently a HEAD-Genève Alumni in residence at Fieldwork: Marfa. She works in collaboration with Luca Guizzo on a series of sculptures.

“For this residency we decided to work on two fronts. A series of sculptures made out of fabric and a mixture of clay flour that i have been using and refining for a few months. And a new installment from a series of works ‘’objets attachés’’. This a series of kilns that acquire a lasting relationship with the ground they are constructed on through their firing.

When we arrived in Marfa we started by collecting materials that would enrich and ground the sculpture that would later be produced.
We collected fabrics, clay, preakly pears and other organic and inorganic materials. We worked with these materials, combining them dying and sawing them together. To create a series of petrified sculptures.

The ground around Fieldworks is like most of the desert surrounding Marfa. It is dry with scattered patches of equaly dry grass that are prone to spontaneous combustion. There is a county wide fire ban in effect year round. This made the construction of a kiln and it’s firing challenging. We constructed the kiln underground to better control the fire and built a dome on top of the hole. The fire is fully enclosed and we elongated the chimney to better cool the particules that might escape.

As we write this it has been raining for almost two weeks straight and the fire ban has probably been lifted.”

Read more on her previous work (in french only) here: https://www.letemps.ch/culture/petits-monstres-marie-bette