fields harrington

Welcome to our second episode for Y2K GROUP CHAT. We recorded on two separate days in June 2020. fields 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. fields harrington is an emerging artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Follow us on Instagram: @y2kgroup Subscribe to our YouTube channel for more content about contemporary art Stay up-to-date with our Y2K Blog on our website for more news. Audio timestamps below: 1:17 - Intro with fields 2:16 - Y2K's reason for starting a podcast 3:20 - The podcast music introduction 5:17 - First question: how has your work and life changed since the pandemic? 6:36 - Whitney ISP catalog 7:44 - Braun text on the spirometer 8:56 - Rabinbach text on the human motor (thermodynamics, labor power and fatigue) 10:15 - Labor/work and fatigue in the body 11:17 - fields' mapping of physics and science and its origins 14:37 - Second question: how did the spirometer become the starting point for fields' research? 15:40 - fields' relationship with science 18:12 - Round 2 19:02 - News 19:42 - Twitter/Social Media 21:50 - Fact-checking 23:49 - Deepfake 25:21 - Taco Tuesdays 25:57 - Texas and High School 27:05 - Moving to New York in 2011 27:28 - The Black Beyond Zoom Artist Talk reference 28:52 - Y2K's casual podcast format 30:32 - Community college (finding photography and food ads) 33:23 - Photography at UNT 35:37 - Road trip / couch surfing to New York 37:43 - Working in urban food start-ups and problem solving 39:10 - Beginnings of a career as an artist 39:31 - UNT thesis 40:49 - Food and advertisement 44:31 - Produce Manager and researching solutions 49:06 - Back to school 52:07 - Types of work at UPENN 55:07 - Performing with acoustic levitation 56:53 - S-CURL in high school 1:00:43 - Performance at UPENN using S-CURL 1:03:48 - Reaction to performance 1:05:09 - Medical theater introduction 1:06:40 - UPENN and medical history 1:07:35 - Paintings of medical theater 1:09:54 - Hogarth's The Reward of Cruelty painting 1:11:13 - Robert Thom painting 1:12:36 - J. Marion Simms racist legacy 1:15:31 - "What remains is constant" by fields harrington 1:16:02 - Braun and Rabinbach texts 1:17:18 - The history of the study of fatigue for labor/work 1:19:01 - Benjamin Gould report 1:23:20 - Etienne-Jules Marey 1:25:07 - fields' essay as artwork 1:26:50 - COVID-19 and spirometer having similar biases 1:28:30 - Race table from Gould's report 1:30:23 - Statistics as surveillance 1:30:55 - Biases in science 1:32:57 - Approximation of a Mix performance question 1:37:40 - Protests and Uprising 1:41:31 - Future work