fields harrington
Welcome to our second episode for Y2K GROUP CHAT.\nWe recorded on two separate days in June 2020.\nfields delves into: COVID-19, the history of the spirometer, the study of labor and fatigue, his relationship with science, fact-checking, Taco Tuesdays, urban gardening, the history of medical theater, and biases in science.\nfields harrington is an emerging artist based in Brooklyn, New York.\nFollow us on Instagram: @y2kgroup\nSubscribe to our YouTube channel for more content about contemporary art\nStay up-to-date with our Y2K Blog on our website for more news.\nAudio timestamps below:\n1:17 - Intro with fields\n2:16 - Y2K's reason for starting a podcast\n3:20 - The podcast music introduction\n5:17 - First question: how has your work and life changed since the pandemic?\n6:36 - Whitney ISP catalog\n7:44 - Braun text on the spirometer\n8:56 - Rabinbach text on the human motor (thermodynamics, labor power and fatigue)\n10:15 - Labor/work and fatigue in the body\n11:17 - fields' mapping of physics and science and its origins\n14:37 - Second question: how did the spirometer become the starting point for fields' research?\n15:40 - fields' relationship with science\n18:12 - Round 2\n19:02 - News\n19:42 - Twitter/Social Media\n21:50 - Fact-checking\n23:49 - Deepfake\n25:21 - Taco Tuesdays\n25:57 - Texas and High School\n27:05 - Moving to New York in 2011\n27:28 - The Black Beyond Zoom Artist Talk reference\n28:52 - Y2K's casual podcast format\n30:32 - Community college (finding photography and food ads)\n33:23 - Photography at UNT\n35:37 - Road trip / couch surfing to New York\n37:43 - Working in urban food start-ups and problem solving\n39:10 - Beginnings of a career as an artist\n39:31 - UNT thesis\n40:49 - Food and advertisement\n44:31 - Produce Manager and researching solutions\n49:06 - Back to school\n52:07 - Types of work at UPENN\n55:07 - Performing with acoustic levitation\n56:53 - S-CURL in high school\n1:00:43 - Performance at UPENN using S-CURL\n1:03:48 - Reaction to performance\n1:05:09 - Medical theater introduction\n1:06:40 - UPENN and medical history\n1:07:35 - Paintings of medical theater\n1:09:54 - Hogarth's The Reward of Cruelty painting\n1:11:13 - Robert Thom painting\n1:12:36 - J. Marion Simms racist legacy\n1:15:31 - "What remains is constant" by fields harrington\n1:16:02 - Braun and Rabinbach texts\n1:17:18 - The history of the study of fatigue for labor/work\n1:19:01 - Benjamin Gould report\n1:23:20 - Etienne-Jules Marey\n1:25:07 - fields' essay as artwork\n1:26:50 - COVID-19 and spirometer having similar biases\n1:28:30 - Race table from Gould's report\n1:30:23 - Statistics as surveillance\n1:30:55 - Biases in science\n1:32:57 - Approximation of a Mix performance question\n1:37:40 - Protests and Uprising\n1:41:31 - Future work