Join Kris, Jacob and Lisa along with guests Ruth Jeyaveeran and Tracy Le as we chat with Ilona Szwarc about her work during Field Residency! We discuss the different experiences Ilona had at Yale and SVA and her latest project on Seasonal Color in Fashion. This work continues her long term exploration of “the expert” in art, fashion, “beauty,” and …

Shame, trauma, and healing are at the core of SECRETO, a years-long project by María Luisa Portuondo Vila. Field Projects is honored to unveil the first book produced from this work at our gallery NEXT WEEK, so stay tuned and you can meet with María Luisa yourself! Secrets grip us, and we get into grief, love, death, sex, and abuse in this deeply h…

Hand-made paper! Ancient Symposia! Bandages! Jade Suits! Cowboys! Today, Jacob and Kris sit down for a post-Spring/Break interview with artist Fay Ku. Fay was Field Project’s featured artist at Spring Break this year in Axonometric Tongue. Ku’s immersive, axonometric installation proposed a radical alternative to the hegemonic eye of single point p…

Floating Cities! Perspective! Blood, String & Jade! On episode 1 of FieldPod season 3 Jacob Rhodes and Kris Racaniello dive into fall and, of course, fall in New York means Spring/Break Art Show with Fay Ku! Fay is Field Project’s featured artist at Spring Break this year in our exhibition Axonometric Tongue. Ku’s immersive, axonometric installatio…

Episode 9: Yongqi Tang (Field Resident) Today on Field Pod, Jacob Rhodes joins one of our Field Residents, Yongqi Tang. They discuss growing up queer/bisexual in Shenzhen, China, having the Sistine Chapel and Rome as ones first Art experience, Heideggar’s ideas on what makes an artwork, Scoliosis, identity performance, empowerment through connectin…

Episode 8: Ilana Yacine Harris-Babou Today on Field Pod, Jacob Rhodes sits down with the artist Ilana Yacine Harris-Babou. They talk about growing up in Brooklyn, with a multi generational house of black women, play and its relationship to work, lack and pleasure, the Loren Hill syndrome, Audre Lorde’s “The Use of the Erotic”, finally getting comfo…

HOME GALLERY with Will Chan Today on Field Pod, Kris Racaniello sits down with William Chan, who opened Home Gallery in 2020. They talk about the difficulties and desire for opening a gallery during the COVID outbreak. They discuss the fu*ked up situation with Leon Black and the board of directors at MoMA, and Laura Raicovich at the Queens Museum, …

Today on Field Pod Kris sits down with Katya Harris on a porch in Massachusetts to talk beer, making, and nature. Katya is currently the Director of Partnerships at the New York State Brewers Association and previously worked as the Development Manager at Art Omi. They cover some important, difficult topics around art, success, and balancing your d…

Today join Field Projects founder Jacob Rhodes in a discussion with Lydia McCarthy about her photo and video based art practice. We touch on hereditary mental Illness, alternate realities, spiritualities, psychedelics, the connection that photography has to reality, practical effects, VHS vs Beta, reality TV, and as always vulnerability. SHOW NOTES…

For this extended short, join Kris Racaniello as they discuss the impactful exhibition Women at War with curator Monika Fabijanska! This show features contemporary women artists who are working in Ukraine today. Monika and Kris discuss the important role of historiography, gender, family, and representation in shaping perceptions of war beyond the …

Season 2, Episode 3: Asia Sztencel Part 2 + Lisa Schilling’s Go-Sees Today, host Jacob Rhodes presents part 2 of his interview with Asia Sztencel. Then our guest Artists and Advisor Lisa Schilling presents her Go-See’s for your pleasure. You know it’s going to be WILEN! SHOW NOTES: Asia Sztencel @asia_sztencel https://www.asiasztencel.com/ Lisa Shi…

Today, host Kris Racaniello sits down with Lydia Nobles in the exhibition TEMPUS FUGIT, curated by Charles Moore at Latchkey Gallery. Lydia speaks about her two sculptures there and their intersection with her larger project documenting and materializing the spectrum of abortion stories. We then talk about sculpture as an offering, the history of c…

Season 2: Episode 1: Asia Sztencel Part 1 Today on the pod we introduce Season 2: Summer Shorts. In this episode Jacob interviews Asia Sztencel about her work with immigrants here in the US and in her homeland, Poland. Summer Shorts are quick takes, an intimate interview with one of the Field Pod hosts and a guest. These will take the form of artis…

Today on the podcast we are joined by Alexandra Rubinstein, whose current exhibition The Moon Also Rises is up at Mother Gallery in Tribeca through July 16. Discussing the difficulty of both angry and relaxed work in the studio, therapy, gender and figurative painting, and many other important topics. Alexandra is a brilliant, talented artist and w…

Immortality! Truth! History! FRRRRREEEEEDDDDOOOOOMMMM! Today on the podcast we sit down in Field Projects with Jagrut Raval, our current field resident. We talk about history and myth making, as well as the imaginary of immortality and what it might mean to achieve that. Jagrut is an artist(?) history-maker, fabulator, and chronicler. We discuss hi…

Longing! Death! Materiality! + Open Call Submissions! Today we have a very special guest–– Melissa Joseph, our summer Open Call guest curator–– a brilliant artist and independent curator who is interested in connecting people through collective memory and shared experiences. Her work addresses themes of diaspora, family histories and the politics o…

Truth! Desire! Lack! Today on Field Pod, Directors Jacob Rhodes and Kris Racaniello sit down with curator Michael Howard and artist El Perez in his current exhibition FROM WHAT I REMEMBER, on the night of the first day of our install. We discuss class-bias at the moment of entry into the art world and the difficulties of attaining professional deve…

Model Homes! White Flight! Protest! + Resistance! Today, Field Projects Co-Directors Jacob Rhodes and Kris Racaniello discuss their week, covering some podcasts, comedy shows, and their future projects including a summer conference and–– haunted paintings?? Then the FP team presents a roundtable with artist Johannah Herr, her co-author and collabor…

Healthcare! Freedom! Abortion Rights! + Local Politics! Field Pod takes to the field (or the astroturf at Cadman Plaza) to speak with activists at the Bans Off Our Bodies rally. We hear important, real reasons why people turned up to advocate for abortion as a human right. Then Kris sits down with artist Chiara No for a discussion of Tipper Gore an…

Photography! Poverty Porn! Drawing in Space! Spiderwebs! Field Pod sits down with Field Projects current resident Stacy Kranitz for a talk about her take on documentary photography as a medium best used to question the truth of & in the image. Photographers constantly have to reckon with subjectivity. Stacy explains the ways she has pushed against …

Utopia! Racism! Cold War! + The American Dream! Today, Field Projects Co-Directors Jacob Rhodes and Kris Racaniello cover their trip to Staten Island, Snug Harbor, and last week's studio visits with Siobhan McBride and Natalie Wadlington. Then the FP team interviews artist Johannah Herr with her co-author and collaborator Cara Marsh Sheffler. Herr’…