FIELDS is a publication to coincide with FIELDS: An itinerant inquiry across the Kingdom of Cambodia', an exhibition staged during December, 2013.

FIELDS is a collaborative project of ST PAUL St Gallery, Auckland and SA SA BASSAC, Phnom Penh and is curated by Erin Gleeson and Vera Mey. Generous support comes from the School of Art + Design, AUT University, School of Education, AUT University, NICAI, University of Auckland, and the Asia New Zealand Foundation.

FIELDS brings artists and curators to Cambodia to engage contemporary ritual practice. The 20-day nomadic itinerary is a proposal that traverses space, temporality, and culture through a politics of memory, inheritance, and tradition by performing a cartography that informs and alters its references. The nation’s agrarian landscape, the fieldwork of anthropologists and aid workers, Buddhist notions of merit-fields, the psycho-geographical landscape referred to as the Killing Fields, and the history of art practices in the expanded field all serve as starting points.

From New Zealand: Charlotte Huddleston, Vera Mey, Janita Craw, Alex Monteith, Luke Willis Thompson; from Cambodia, Albert Samreth, Erin Gleeson, Khvay Samnang, Amy Lee Sanford, Lim Sokchanlina, Tith Kanitha; from Australia, Roger Nelson; from Denmark, Tue Greenfort; from Germany, Ute Meta Bauer, Julia Moritz; from Romania Anca Rujoiu; from Taiwan, Fang-Tse Hsu; from Thailand, Arin Runjung | Project Coordinator: Chum Chanveasna | Design: Albert Samreth

Please visit us at Te Wai Ngutu Kākā Gallery to purchase this publication (cash only), or contact us at ngutukaka@aut.ac.nz to arrange a direct deposit and courier.