Our Shared Field: Pilot Season Trailer

What does it mean to truly collaborate? How do we find shared meaning? How can we create, together? Our Shared Field is a podcast project that seeks to answer these questions by bringing together artists with people from other fields to talk about the overlaps of their respective work. A printmaker and a sanitation worker. A carpenter and an installation artist. A tree tender and ecological sculptor. An organic garden supplier and a socially-engaged artist. In each episode, we meet two guests, interviewing them individually about their work, then sitting down for a conversation that explores their varied approaches to similar subjects. Provocative connections are made between disparate worlds, and listeners can hear how these connections lead to new creative possibilities. Interviewees also have the opportunity to participate in a micro-residency, hosted digitally, where the public can experience and witness their processes of collaboration. In the gaps between fields — in the space of actually listening to another person — new things can emerge, questions and creative projects that take into account differences of perspective. About the host: Our Shared Field is created and hosted by Austen Camille (she/her), an artist, writer, carpenter and arts organizer. Camille's practice investigates her itinerant state as it is informed by and intertwined with her work as a carpenter and land steward. The intersection between construction, land(scape), utility, and people’s desire to both care for and control their spaces is the result of growing up in her family’s hardware store and garden center. She received her MFA in Painting from the Tyler School of Art and Architecture in 2020. While in graduate school, she received multiple grants to organize a university-wide conversation series that brought different disciplines together to discuss common issues. This podcast series is an extension of her work, continuing to create spaces for dialogue and advocating for public arts accessibility. Learn more about her work here. Credit: Thank you to the Center for Humanities at Temple University for their support, and to Eric Carbonara of NadaSoundStudio for audio editing of this trailer. Thank you to the band Glitter Vomit for the music featured in the trailer.