Lia Rousset generates spaces where people come together as creative centers. Whether on the street or in the gallery, her work produces situations for experience. Through relationship building and interventions in the built world, Lia’s work aims to bring awareness and connection within ourselves, one another, and our environments. She looks for collective outcomes through material and collaboration, asking us to imagine.
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 of craft, which by nature is slow, requires commitment, repetition and revision, much like social change. Our choice to work with girls, young women and gender variant youth is born of our experience as women builders in both art and trade contexts. Our name, Project Fielding, encompasses both the experience of deflecting unwelcome assumptions and a new direction for the field of building.
DEEP TIME CHICAGO is an art/research/activism initiative formed in the wake of the Anthropocene Curriculum program at HKW in Berlin, Germany. The initiative’s goal is to explore one core idea: humanity as a geological agency, capable of disrupting the earth system and inscribing present modes of existence into deep time. By knitting together group readings, guided walks, lectures, panels, screenings, performances, publications and exhibitions, we hope to develop a public research trajectory, offering a variety of formats where Chicago area inhabitants can grapple with the crucial questions of global ecological change.