Y2K GROUP CHAT

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.

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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

In our first episode for Y2K GROUP CHAT we will be presenting the audio from our new Q&A video series.

Join us as we go in depth and interview Frankie Phillips and learn more about his practice, opinions, and life as an artist in New York. We also explore his thoughts and ideas about the future of galleries and artists going forward.

Frankie Phillips is an emerging artist based in Ridgewood, Queens and is represented by Y2K group in New York.

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