Editors: Fred Carter, Jeff Diamanti
Design: Miranda Herceg
FieldARTS visual identity: Matthew Wilson
100 pp., 200 g, 12.5 x 17.5 cm, English, May 2023
ISBN/EAN: 978-90-823216-8-5

In July 2022, as part of the first FieldARTS residency, two dozen artists and researchers conducted undisciplined and collaborative fieldwork across the logistical flows of the Amsterdam port, the brackish waters of the IJmuiden estuary, and the shifting dunes of Texel Island in dialogue with marine chemists, Marxist theorists, Black feminist thinkers, and benthic ecologists. This research was conducted with the conviction that fieldwork might name an intimacy with the field and those drawn to it, not the variously distilled outcomes that typically follow once the sandbank is translated as a bank of data. Alive to the plural currents, contours and conflicts of the terrains of study – sensitive, in other words, to its milieu-specificity – the FieldARTS Field Docket details some coordinates for thought and practice as they were encountered in the field. The pocket-sized book contains thirty entries that are provisional, excessive, dialogic, often brackish, only lightly edited and arranged. Consisting of critical orientations drawn into focus during the collaborative residency, these entries present a sustained engagement with a field languishing at the edge of cultural concern while remaining central to the shape of transitions already well underway.

About FieldARTS 

Dedicated to exploring infrastructure fieldwork within the arts and humanities, this research residency is led by Fred Carter and Jeff Diamanti in collaboration with the Infrastructure Humanities Group, Glasgow. FieldARTS fosters interdisciplinary inquiry into the material and social systems shaping our world.

Contributors

Iulia Aionesi, Jacob Bolton, Damian Borovsky, Michaela Büsse, Alexandra Campbell, Fred Carter, Nile Davies, Jeff Diamanti, Ifor Duncan, Verena Fisch, Johan Haldna, Alice Johnston Rougeaux, Katy Lewis Hood, Ceara Ione, Lance Gapuz Laoyan, Miriam Matthiessen, Marit Mihklepp, Charles Rouleau, Gizem Senturk, Miriam Sentler, Hannah Tollefson, Anouk van Wijk