LISE SKOU

FIELD WORK

A collaboration with Nis Rømer.
Initiated in 2007


STATEMENT

Amongst the many relations defining human existence the individual and collective relation to our environment is one of the most essential.
The cultivation, elaboration and even destruction of our surroundings are defining our culture and it is a central tool in the creation of national and social identities. Field Work aims to investigate those relations by engaging with urban and rural landscapes, and reflect on contemporary perception and uses of it.

We analyze living conditions from an economic, social, architectural and ecological perspective as well as from the organizational modes found in everyday life and daily consumer transactions. We discover or even establish pockets of subculture.

We wish to emphasize other realities of lifestyles and worldviews and possibilities of a life that go beyond the purely economic globalization.

We aim to re-evaluate our ways of action and advocate social and political change while questioning what we take for granted in contemporary capitalism.

We do field work and work in anthropological ways to produce ideas that has a potential to change how we perceive and act in public spaces.

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