INTRODUCTION

X_FIELD is an informal group of practitioners who work across the art and design disciplines. The name pays homage to Rosalind Kraus’s seminal essay, ’Sculpture in the Expanded Field’ (October 8, Spring 1979), but instead of reaffirming the distinctions between the disciplines of sculpture, architecture, and landscape architecture as defined in her matrix, we are interested in their intersections and the spaces in-between. We have identified these margins as sites of operation: places of becoming, transaction, negotiation, and improvisation.

The agenda of the X_Field project is to promote a continuing and significant discourse amongst like-minded practitioners who challenge the conventions of their respective disciplines. A touring exhibition supported by symposia and seminars collects contributions to this dialogue from Melbourne, Seoul, Beijing and Taipei before returning in an expanded format to Melbourne. The exhibitions highlight our multiple ways of acting and the techniques we invent and employ at many spatial and temporal scales, through content that remains relevant to our specific local conditions.