Field is a bio-arts laboratory and research space that creates new discourse around our relationships with land and nature to rethink the homogeneity, order, and control present within the built environment. We are artists, material designers, and architects who open source our findings to share recipes, fabrication processes and tools for working with new experimental and sustainable materials. “How to Grow a Field?” is a 2.5-hour workshop where participants will learn to make Field’s new grass-based bioplastic and make a collective artwork with this material. In the process, we will discuss the opportunities and challenges of working with biomaterials and introduce you to our ongoing research with robotic fabrication techniques for these new materials.
Field is a collaborative long-durational arts and research project founded by Supermrin in 2018. Our members form a vast network across the globe, and include Jil Berenblum, Ane Gonzalez Lara, Jessica Fertonani Cooke, Xenia Adjoubei, and many others.
Supermrin is an Indian artist working at the intersections of architecture, art, and design. Through a research-led, speculative, and site-specific practice, she creates installations and environments that seek to reconsider the values that spaces offer, and the ways through which they mediate human relationships. She is interested in conceptions of reality, pleasure, and nature within eastern practices. Supermrin is an Assistant Professor of Art at the School of Art, University of Cincinnati. She holds an MFA degree from the San Francisco Art Institute, California and an undergraduate degree in Exhibition Design from the National Institute of Design, India. Her work has been exhibited at venues across the United States and beyond, including the Untitled Art Fair Miami, Venice Biennale for Architecture, Italian Virtual Pavilion 2021, the Headlands Center for the Arts, The Old San Francisco Mint, Root Division, The First Presbyterian Church of New York, ChaShaMa Space, and the India Habitat Center in New Delhi. Supermrin founded Streetlight in 2017 as a critical spatial research and design laboratory for decolonizing public space.
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