Photos by: Peter Evans

FIELD

FIELD trip is a durational performance/workshop guided by a score designed by Jessica Fertonani Cooke.

Occurring at a location in Cardiff, FIELD invites you to interpret the score and connect to the land through an open direction.

Braiding, Digging, Sleeping, Breastfeeding, Weaving, Tearing, Mending.

Field is an interdisciplinary piece that challenges Modernist planning schemas through the sterilisation and uniformity of manicured urban grasses and ‘front lawn’ culture. The project calls for mutualism between people, animals, insects, birds, trees, plants and bushes in public urban spaces. Reclaiming our relations between organisms while navigating contemporary global cities confronts urban planning choices that reinforce notions of excessive practicality, order and control in social conduct.

FIELD was founded by Supermrin and is co-directed with Jessica Fertonani Cooke, the project’s performance director

Supermrin is an Indian installation artist, based in Cincinnati, OH and New York City, NY

Jessica is a Brazilian performance artist, based in Camburi, Brazil and Berkeley, CA

Fertonani Cooke’s mestiza heritage (Brazil and Hawaii) informs her research of third-place identities, contributing to feminist and decolonial discourse's in America's - North[1]South. Her activist background with indigenous communities, primarily Tohono O’odham and Guarani, builds upon her comprehension of ritualistic space, trauma and erased histories, informing her site-specific performances on politically loaded territories. Her latest experiences navigating her US-Mexico border projects and her assimilation of psychomagic techniques that focus on healing psychological wounds are the basis for her conceptualisation of FIELD's site-specific performance cosmologies.