Amber Ginsburg

  • Untidy Objects

    Untidy Objects

    Untidy Objects, 2022 – ongoingUntidy Objects, which introduces emergent growth and multispecies co-mingling, is both a sculptural and political proposition. Since the advent of this multi-year installation, a living sculpture adjacent to the Logan Center developed in conjunction with the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry and the Neubauer Collegium, the population of constituents has…

  • Resistance Architecture, Sweetwater Foundation, Project Fielding, 2018

    Resistance Architecture, Sweetwater Foundation, Project Fielding, 2018

    Resistance Architecture, Sweetwater Foundation, Project Fielding, 2018 Designed and built by Project Fielding teachers and participants – Resistance Architecture is an adaptable structure intended for political encampment that was designed to fulfill the needs of long-term protesters. In recognition of a political climate which demands sustained resistance, Project Fielding led a design build workshop in…

  • Resistance Architecture, STOP (The Healing Village), Project Fielding, 2018

    Resistance Architecture, STOP (The Healing Village), Project Fielding, 2018

    Resistance Architecture, Southside Together Organizing for Power (STOP) and the Healing Village, 2018 Project Fielding was so honored to have Resistance Architecture present at the Healing Village, an encampment on 63rd and Woodlawn in Chicago  organized by STOP (Southside Together Organizing for Power) between July and October of 2018. The village was a community building…

  • Forest University, 2019 – ongoing

    Forest University, 2019 – ongoing

    Forest University, 2019 – ongoingThan Bok Khorani National Park, Krabi, Thailand, 2019 (in post-production)Shawnee National Forest, Illinois, 2019 (in post-production)Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve, Louisiana, 2019-2020 (in production) An ongoing interview series and audio archive created at various forest sites, the Forest University project is one that addresses the complexity of the land…

  • Sudden Oak Death Symposium Workshop, 7000 Marks, 2019

    Sudden Oak Death Symposium Workshop, 7000 Marks, 2019

    7000 Marks Workshop, 2019The Seventh Sudden Oak Death Science and Management Symposium: Healthy Plants in a World with Phytophthora, San Francisco, CA For SOD7, Amber Ginsburg and I were invited to speak with a group of scientists, foresters and nursery managers who are researching and working to stop the spread of Phytophthora ramorum (SOD) in…

  • Resistance Architecture with #TheLetUsBreathe Collective – Project Fielding, 2019

    Resistance Architecture with #TheLetUsBreathe Collective – Project Fielding, 2019

    Resistance Architecture, The Breathing Room, 2019-ongoing The Free Town Field Build was a design-build workshop organized by the teachers’ collective Project Fielding to create Resistance Architecture with and for members of the #LetUsBreathe Collective, an alliance of artists and activists who organize to imagine a world without prisons and police. Project Fielding defines Resistance Architecture…

  • 7000 Marks, 2016-ongoing

    7000 Marks, 2016-ongoing

    7000 Marks, 2016-ongoing SOD7 – Sudden Oak Death SymposiumThe PresidioSan Francisco, California In March 2016, on the first rainy day in California in two years, we felled a tanoak tree infected with Sudden Oak Death (SOD) on the Big Creek Reserve. The pathogen Phytophthora ramorum has traveled on the global nursery trade to the US.…

  • Le Museé du Grand Dehors (The Museum of the Great Outdoors) – Thailand, 2019

    Le Museé du Grand Dehors (The Museum of the Great Outdoors) – Thailand, 2019

    Le Musée du Grand Dehors (The Museum of the Great Outdoors), 2018-19พิพิธภัณฑ์แห่งโลกภายนอก, 2561 Carbon (Parkia timoriana, Diospyros buxifolia (Blume) Hiern); Museum: various construction materials Le Museé du Grand Dehors (The Museum of the Great Outdoors) is a sculptural work that uses a tree as the conceptual lens through which we critically examine and expand our…

  • Resistance Architecture – OPAL and Open Engagement – Project Fielding, 2017

    Resistance Architecture – OPAL and Open Engagement – Project Fielding, 2017

    Resistance Architecture, HPAC and OPAL, Project Fielding, 2017-ongoingHyde Park Art Center – Open EngagementOak Park Arts League – Terrain Biennial Resistance Architecture, Project Fielding’s first design build project, is an adaptable structure intended for political encampment that can be erected to fulfill the needs of long-term protesters. In conjunction with Oak Park events celebrating the…

  • Tooling Camp – Project Fielding, 2017

    Tooling Camp – Project Fielding, 2017

    Tooling Camp – Project Fielding, 2016In June 2017 Project Fielding held a Tooling Camp at the Hyde Park Art Center Project Fielding: Project Fielding was founded by Sara Black, Billy Dee, Amber Ginsburg, Miriam Stevens and Donesha Thompson and has expanded to involve Caroline Robe and Lia Rousset. We consider building to be a gesture…