Fieldwork
2018-2019

Choreography, Performance
Single channel 360 video

11:00


Fieldwork imagined Freshkills landfill as a monument to the labor embedded in its mountain of discarded waste. This performance work archived the choreographies of food production, industrial production, logistics and distribution production, and the scientific labor needed to transform the landfill to park. The piece was filmed in 360 video to include the park itself as a performer in the work: the park will not open to the public until 2030. 360 video enables viewers a virtual experience of the park as they
watch the dancers.
Performance Still, Science
Performance Still, Agriculture
Performance Still, Factory
Performance Still, Logistics


STUDIES FOR FIELDWORK





Exhibited in Sound the Mound + Fieldwork R/D at Freshkills Park, Aaronson Gallery at Parsons School of Design, January 28, 2025 - March 2, 2025

Exhibited in Re:Generation,a permanent online exhibition, launched in 2020 

Exhibited in 2200 Acres: Field R/D Artists on Regeneration at Freshkills, Freshkills Studio+Gallery, Staten Island, September 23-November 20, 2018

Exhibited at Fieldwork R/D at NADA Art Fair, 2018
PROJECT CREDITS

Funded through Freshkills R/D
Rehearsal Master: Morgan Refakis
Performers: Anna Pinault, Calleja Smiley, Leanne Goia, Melissa House, Morgan Refakis
360 Videography: Haoyan of America
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Nancy Nowacek artist is a research-based artist, designer, and educator working in visual art, public art, social practice, and socially-engaged contexts.