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Output Field: Redistribute Clout

Output Field is a non-profit organization calling for the redistribution of clout.

As the founder of this organization, project management and creative direction on our production team, which is currently working on our website. We are gathering a database of underrepreseneted experimental artists. 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.

Our core work is nurturing a community-curated database of underrepresented voices in the arts (read: a list of people who deserve more clout). We hope to offer this resource as a curatorial corrective¹ to support the redistribution of clout. Our database is launching this year (2024): sign up for updates on our website (outputfield.com)

Our Values:

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.

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 those

Cooperative, not Competitive

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.

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.

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.

Featuring the work of 30 artists around the world

Our debut exhibition, Skin Garden, on New Art City

Enter the Garden

Skin Garden: A virtual exhibition on New Art City.

Output Field presents its debut exhibition: Skin Garden, a collection of 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.

Origin Story

Starting as a periodic live-stream variety show, Output Field started as a digital trauma-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:

Research Insights

We conducted video-call interviews with a dozens of underground artists: visual artists, musicians, performers, tattoo artists, fashion designers, art collectives, etc. We gathered a lot of insights on what constitutes a good collaboration, proper head-spaces fit for appreciating the avant-garde, parameters for “fulfillment” in artistic practice, and the role of community in art.

We found that one of the most lacking elements in furthering artists’ careers is community: we have grown Output Field with a goal of nourishing serendipitous connections that are free of traditional constraints (e.g. institutional, physical). Research showed value in “Geneology of Community”: it is nice and comforting to be in a space of friends of friends of friends…
Good collaboration happens amidst trust in each other, comfort in each other. Factors of trust include: mastery (skills), mutual excitement, and reciprocity.
Appreciation of the experimental and avant-garde requires sense of wonder: being open to new experiences. Output Field is devoted to making the unexpected engaging. This often benefits from a “Sensory Tare” to promote heightened awareness, and re-contextualize sound, visuals, or other artwork.