Kristen Kreider and James O'Leary
Book chapter in Fieldwork for Future Ecologies: Radical Practice for Art and Art-based Research edited by Bridget Crone, Sam Nightingale and Polly Stanton
Eindhoven: Onomatopee (May 2022)
Bringing together contributions by artists, writers and theorists, ‘Fieldwork for Future Ecologies’ addresses the role that art practice and art-based research plays in expanding notions of fieldwork. At once a handbook for research and practice and a philosophical speculation, this book offers the unique opportunity to explore ways of working within vastly diverse climates and terrains using image, sound, movement and other sensing technologies. It also offers more creative and speculative interventions into the idea and location of the ‘field’ itself.
For their contribution to the book, Kreider + O’Leary construct an historical, theoretical and material matrix of artifacts, agents, designs and policy related to the fields of conflict, territory and desire that comprise the ‘Peace Walls’ used to separate and contain Nationalist and Unionist communities in Northern Ireland. Working with drawing, video, mapping and writing to separate and identify one micro-context from another, they construct a case for a ‘congregational understanding of agency’ (Bennet, 2010) related to the assemblage called ‘The Interface’.
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