Field Casting

Field Casting is a research project and exhibition that investigates scientific ‘fieldwork’ as a site and subject of study, zooming in on the practices, tools and perspectives embroiled in the production of climate data. It explores the relationship between field practice and automated data collection and highlights knowledge as an event that is materially entangled with the lives of humans and nonhumans.

Matterlurgy worked alongside marine biologists at the Archipelago Research Institute on the Island of Seili to understand how the Baltic Sea is sampled, monitored and modelled in relation to local and global climate change. Across sculpture, film and sound, the exhibition casts a unique assemblage of artefacts, actors and stories: the scientist body, tools and technologies of capture, processes of reading, recording and translating phenomena that often occlude apprehension. The exhibition and talks program at

Made under the name of collaborative duo, Matterlurgy (Mark Peter Wright and Helena Hunter).

Commissioned by CAA Contemporary Art Archipelago in collaboration with the Archipelago Research Institute (University of Turku). With support from the Kone Foundation, Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland and Oskar Öflund Foundation. Special thanks to Eero Nives, Eero Merimaa and sculpture students at Turku University of Applied Sciences and Natural History Museum in London, UK.

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