When living at a pivotal moment in history where declining political, economic and environmental conditions mean that the planet could meet its demise more possibly through human mal-activities than extraterrestrial cosmic, or planetary shifts, it is no small occasion for hundreds of US and Asia based artists and arts professionals to gather to deliberate on art and the state of the world at the 5th iteration of FIELD MEETING, Asia Contemporary Art Week’s (ACAW) annual signature forum in New York, hosted by ACAW Consortium Partners Asia Society and SVA MA Curatorial Practice (SVA Theatre). In 2017, in an attempt to deconstruct the term “project” in the life of artists and arts professionals, FIELD MEETING presentations traverse between disciplines of visual arts, art history, science, social history, philosophy, architecture, mythology, film, folklore, subculture, medicine and self-development, to reflect on a variety of significant and timely topics including feminism as ecological consciousness; Lenin’s rendezvous with Jesus; telepathic animal communication; links between Chinese ink painting and global warming; cosmic speculation; the transformation of ancient symbols in the digital age, and much more.

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See full curatorial statement here.