Output Field
Output Field is a non-profit organization calling for the redistribution of clout. It is gathering a list of experimental artists, collectives, curators, & spaces.
Our core work is building an online database of underrepresented voices in the arts. We hope to offer this resource as a curatorial corrective for curators and institutions with similar values. Our database is launching this year (2024): sign up for updates on our website (outputfield.com)
As the founder of this organization, I do project management and creative direction on our production team, which is currently working on our website. I also am the core community organizer: organizing events, managing communication between artists, and guiding volunteers.
Output Field is a 501(c)3 non-profit calling for the redistribution of clout. We're gathering a list of experimental artists, collectives, curators, & spaces.
Decenter Institutions
We are shifting away from paradigms in which artists depend on institutions to show work. With our directory, we’d like to push gatekeepers to rethink their role, and devote more space and resources for voices with less institutional proximity.
Our Values:
Expanding the “Venue”
We’re interested in ways of expand the meaning of "venue." As new media and creative coding develop, so will containers for collaboration and artistic output. We hope to champion voices that play with medium and place.
Artist-First
When in doubt - this is our north star. Our core tenet is to put artists first and we exist to support them through their process. We look to support underrepresented artists and aim to empower them to overcome hegemony in the arts.
Porous Canon
Our database of artists, curators, and venues is referral and invitation-based. Our growing curator community and referral format will continually manifest links to artists/curators outside our line of sight. We are committed to showing new, speculative voices.
Curatorial Corrective
Opportunities for resources should be applicable to all artists regardless of race, gender identity, sexual orientation, or appearance. We built this for curators and gallerists who hold this close to heart.
Nourish Output
We aim to nurture the philosophy, logistics, process, and output around creative practice. This community is a space for our artists to seek collaborators, feedback, assistance for their creative ventures.
Our debut exhibition, Skin Garden, on New Art City
Featuring the work of 30 artists around the world
Skin Garden: A virtual exhibition on New Art City.
Output Field presents its debut exhibition: Skin Garden, a collection of new media artworks discussing bodies: through movement, space, sound, self, and fellow bodies. Skin Garden is body language. The three rooms inside this lobby present audiovisual reflections on our physical vessels, as they relate to trauma, language, queerness, tradition, and multiplicity.
Our most recent event, 覺
A gathering of workshops, conversations, performances and collaborations. The event will center queer sino-diasporic artists / makers。
Origin Story
Starting as a periodic live-stream variety show, Output Field started as a response to the pandemic isolation. As the show progressed into a semi-consistent, monthly installment, it also developed into a hub for serendipitous connection across time zones. While growing a meeting place for artists to connect and collaborate in isolation, it also became a tool for fundraising, raising 13,000$ in donations for Movement 4 Black Lives and $6,400 for Stop AAPI Hate.
It all started by doing stuff like this: