with Tanja Baudoin (Amsterdam), Giles Bailey (London) and Charles Stankievech (Berlin)

The preselectioned candidates will be informed by the end of  2012

The final selection will be published on www.fieldworkmarfa.org at the end of 2012

Fieldwork: Marfa is pleased to announce its first annual symposium, which will take place on March 14th and 15th at Crowley Theater in Marfa, TX.

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The program is held by ESBA Nantes Métropole, HEAD — Genève
and Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam.
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With the advise of SKOR Foundation for Art and Public Domain,
The Netherlands.

This meeting is conceived as an international research platform dedicated to the practice of art in the public space, critical approaches to landscape/borders and artistic projects based on field investigation methods. The program is structured around the presentation of specific projects developed on site by six artists in residence. Artists, teachers and writers from each school are invited to present their own research on complementary issues, contextualized there, in dialogue with the residents. A series of interventions by special guests will complete the whole program, which is intended to share these numerous practical and theoretical explorations with the group of students, as well as with and a broader audience.

The symposium is accompanied by two public events: on the first evening, the opening of the exhibition which will be held at Fieldwork: Marfa Art Space, presenting the projects of the first six artists in residence; on the second evening there will be a screening of the US premiere of the audiovisual show "The Mirage of History", preceded by talk with artist Rosa Barba (IT).

Participants: Wilfrid Almendra (artist), Etienne Bernard (ESBA Nantes Métropole), Jeroen Boomgaard (Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam), Emily Verla Bovino (artist), Yann Chateigné Tytelman (HEAD—Genève), Sean Dockray (The Public School, Los Angeles), Erin Elder, Nina Elder and Nancy Zastudil (PLAND, Tres Piedras, NM), Katharina Hohmann (HEAD—Genève), Elisa Larvego (artist), Johan Lundh (curator and writer), Eden Morfaux (ESBA Nantes Métropole), Benoit-Marie Moriceau (artist) Charlotte Moth (artist), Theo Tegelaers (SKOR Foundation for Art and Public Domain), Noura Wedell (ROSKY School of Fine Arts, Los Angeles), Frank Westermeyer (HEAD—Genève)

A HAMMER TO THE HEAD FOR TALK AT TEN 
By Emily Verla Bovino

In 1981, artist and writer Donald Judd signed his name to a German phrase he found on the wall of one of two artillery sheds at Fort D.A. Russell, Marfa, Texas. The phrase, translated in English, reads, "It is better to use your head than to lose it." In the two sheds, Judd would install the post-contemporary memory theatre, otherwise known amongst the cognoscenti as 100 Works In Mill Aluminum.  

On Tuesday February 7 and Wednesday February 15th, Talk at Ten on Marfa Public Radio (10 AM CST on KRTS 93.5 FM) will broadcast the first segment of a two-part series entitled A Hammer to the Head for Talk at Ten: On a Neuromorphic Architectonics of Narrative.

The program will include the broadcast of works by radio philosopher Gregory Whitehead and poet David Antin, with introductions by Emily Verla Bovino, a resident of Fieldwork: Marfa.  Segment one will feature Dead Letters, an experimental documentary by Gregory Whitehead produced in 1985.  Segment two will feature line, music, counterpoint, disjunction and the measure of mind, a talk by poet David Antin given at the St. Mark's Poetry Project in 1984 .

Image: Raimundii Llullii Maioricani, De Alchimia Opuscula Quae Seguuntur, 1548 

Benoît-Marie Moriceau, FR. Lives and works in Rennes, FR. 
Charlotte Moth, UK. Lives and works in Paris, FR. 
Tove Storch, DK. Lives and works in Copenhagen, DK.

Wilfrid Almendra, FR. Lives and works in Cholet, FR. 
Emily Verla Bovino, USA. Lives and works in La Jolla, CA. 
Elisa Larvego, CH. Lives and works in Geneve, CH.

and US premiere of Robert Smithson's "Breaking Ground: Brocken Circle/ Spiral Hill" (1971-2011) about his only earthwork still in existence outside the United States. Forty years after the completion of Brocken Circle/Spiral Hill (1971) in Emmen (The Netherlands), the film that land artist Robert Smithson had never been able to finish due to his untimely death, has now been completed as a video with support from Dutch partners and SKOR Foundation for Art and Public Domain.

We are proud to announce that the six first researchers to take part into Fieldwork: Marfa research program are:

Wilfrid Almendra, FR. Lives and works in Cholet, FR.
Emily Verla Bovino, USA. Lives and works in La Jolla, CA.
Elisa Larvego, CH. Lives and works in Geneve, CH.
Benoît-Marie Moriceau, FR. Lives and works in Rennes, FR.
Charlotte Moth, UK. Lives and works in Paris, FR.
Tove Storch, DK. Lives and works in Copenhagen, DK.

They have been selected among 151 applications from more than 30 countries.

Jury members:
Kathy Alliou, visual arts advisor for the French Ministry of Culture
Etienne Bernard, Fieldwork: Marfa research program manager for ESBA Nantes Metropole
Jeroen Boomgaard, Fieldwork: Marfa research program manager for Gerrit Rietveld Academie
Yann Chateigné Titelman, Fieldwork: Marfa research program manager for HEAD-Genève
Zoe Gray, curator, Witte de With contemporary art center, Rotterdam 
Theo Tegelaers, senior curator, SKOR Foundation for Art and Public Domain, Amsterdam

ESBA Nantes Métropole is supported by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the Consulate General of France in Houston, Texas.

HEAD–Genève is supported by Fondation Gandur pour l’Art, Geneva.

Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam is advised and supported bySKOR Foundation, The Netherlands.