FIELD STATION 4 is comprised of 140 salvaged military cases from US adventures in Iraq and Afghanistan. These time capsules contain and conflate art, custom electronics, motion sensors, Tibetan artifacts from 15th and 19th centuries, rare fluorescent minerals collected in Greenland, kilometers of fiber optic cables, a digital countdown clock, gold leafed horseshoe crabs, real time surveillance cameras, weather balloons, a likeness of ‘Ham’ the astro-chimp, EMO emergency off switches, biotech devices. Re-purposed, re-synthesized: speculative fiction manifested. Sounds of whales, elk, howler monkeys, shrimp and machinery emanate, altered. FS4 probes the rough edges of human perception and notions of reality itself — in a university town, in a state where evolution is suspect. FIELD STATION 4 installation opened fall 2019. Its planned 11 month run was cut short by the pandemic. Mariana Kistler Beach Museum of Art at Kansas State University > Thank You for supporting my research !! So Grateful.
