About this project
FIELD SEASON: records, wandering perspectives, side notes brings to view up to now rarely seen images of archaeological life from the Institute of Fine Arts’s excavations at Abydos, Egypt. With its monuments, tombs, temples, and imposing landscapes, Abydos was perhaps the earliest most revered site of the ancient Egyptians. It boasts a remarkable history of exploration, often times defining of the developing science of archeology, as we know it today. Photographers Greg Maka, Amanda Kirkpatrick and Gus Gusciora will show a numbers of works, selected amongst the literally thousands of photographs that have accumulated in the expedition archives and in their personal archives over the past three years.
Each of these prints start form the premise that archeology does not begin nor end in institutions. Rather it remains to a large extent a localized practice with a direct impact, on foreigners and locals alike. Contradictions and overlaps attempt to bridge incomprehensible amounts of time, between those of today and those of long ago, between the knowledge of the present and the legacy of the past. These landscapes and portraits – in an expanded sense – migrate along the borders of those unraveling geographic and introspective spaces that alter mindsets, processes and patterns for the formation of knowledge. What is found and what is lost with the convergence of different generations, of cultures, philosophies and mythologies, becomes the lasting consequence of the work on view. Thus, side notes, records and wandering perspectives – reactions to the vastness of such weighty encounters.
The exhibition will be on view starting December at the Kimmel Galleries at New York University. All funds gathered through Kickstarter will be used for the framing of the work and installation of the show. Part of the proceeds from the sale of the catalogues and prints will go towards a fund for children and youth from Abydos, Egypt.
More information about the project available on the official university website as well as on the excavations blog. Visit Field Season for more information about the exhibition and the photographers.
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Our funding goal of $1500 does not cover the entire cost of printing, framing, printing a catalog and costs of the opening, but given the brief amount of time in which we have, we are on concentrating getting our costs partially funded with outside support through kickstarter. Any additional funds will be greatly appreciated.
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New Jersey based photographer Greg Maka has been documenting the work in Abydos since 2009. He has also dedicated much of his time to other projects in Egypt, from documenting rooftop pigeon fanciers in Cairo to photographing Tahrir Square during the height of the revolution. With an introspective approach he seeks to reveal that which lies beneath the surface of both quotidian life and historical moments in time.
Amanda Kirkpatrick joined the project in 2010. From Brooklyn, New York she has traveled widely in the United States, Europe, in Central America and the Middle East. Amanda’s work forms a non-narrative documentary. Her images isolate specific moments and points of perspective, creating an experiential field for vision as well as an awareness of place.
Gus Gusciora is a photographer and short filmmaker based out of Telluride, Colorado, where he is involved with organizations that include the Telluride Film Festival and Mountain Film. His travels have taken him to Asia, Africa, Europe, the Middle East and Central America and his work has appeared in magazines such as National Geographic Traveler, Powder, Bike and Men’s Journal. He joined the project in 2011 and intends to continue his work at Abydos in 2012.
Ileana Selejan, the curator of Field Season, is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Fine Arts. She has been part of the Abydos project for the past few years, at first working from the office in New York, and in 2010 and 2011 on site, as photo archivist and blogger. She is currently writing a dissertation on aesthetics in war photography and protest art from the late 1970s.
The proposed show is a result of their collaboration.
