Re.tangle | Climate Disrupt
Kiran Jandu and Anna Chapman
Curated by Candace Jensen and Jacob Rhodes
Opening Thursday, September 10, 2026 5-8pm
On view through Saturday, October 17, 2026
Field Projects Gallery is pleased to present Re.tangle | Climate Disrupt in collaboration with In Situ Polyculture Commons, featuring our 2026 Fellowship awardees, Anna Chapman and Kiran Jandu.
Re.tangle is an experimental, iterative art space centered around a communal loom, exploring themes of polycrisis and ecofeminism. The interactive fiber sculpture, initially constructed in 2024, has been previously activated in upstate New York, Massachusetts, and Ohio. In its Chelsea presentation, the project is in dialogue with the climate migration and environmental justice issues shaping New York City, including extreme heat, pollution, and flooding.
Sonic Loom Activations: Throughout the exhibition we invite the public to activate the space. The loom, sonically modified by barbie.ai with contact microphones, will generate an interactive soundscape during collaborative weaving. We will host a series of gatherings in conjunction with Climate Week 2026, featuring activists such as Christian Vanizette and Jospheine Goube. Additional details on activations will be announced.
Re.tangle aims to cultivate belonging and collective infrastructure amidst displacement and ecological instability. The reclaimed-material loom becomes a model of interdependence, with each strand contributing to the strength of the whole. How might we build a resilient future?
Re.tangle
Re.tangle is a collaborative, intersectional art project that fosters experimental art spaces around a communal loom, featuring performance interventions, sculptural works, and curated social dialogue. Each iteration of Re.tangle engages a wide range of regional artists, cultural practitioners, and organizations. The interactive fiber sculpture central to Re.tangle was previously activated in New York, Massachusetts, and Ohio exploring themes of polycrisis and ecofeminism.
The Loom: an 8 x 8 × 8-foot cube is a social sculpture and communal loom constructed from reclaimed timber and designed as a freestanding structure. Its four-sided frame is woven with salvaged black fibers, Mylar emergency blankets, and plastic waste, transforming discarded materials into a shifting surface of texture, reflection, and translucency. Visitors are invited to enter, weave, repair, and gradually alter the structure through participation. During performance activations, metal strings and contact microphones attached to the timber capture vibrations generated by weaving, touch, movement, and interaction. These sounds are amplified and live-looped, creating a sonic loom where collective labor becomes an evolving acoustic composition and living archive.
Re.tangle was initiated in 2024 by Anna Chapman (Cleveland, OH) and Kiran Jandu (Northampton, MA). Their collaboration brings together complementary approaches to material, pedagogy, and social practice, engaging arts-based research to investigate craft as a site of socio-ecological repair, modeling interdependence, reuse, and collective responsibility.
The Fellowship
This is Field Projects’ second collaboration with In Situ Polyculture Commons, an art residency and eco-cultural catalyst in SE Vermont. Together, we have created a fellowship which includes a four-week residency in Vermont at In Situ Polyculture Commons, a five-week solo exhibition at Field Projects in NYC, and a stipend. The details for the 2027 Fellowship open call will be announced later this year.
insitupolyculture.org @in_situ_polyculture
Kiran Jandu
Kiran Jandu examines craft as a social and ethical structure. Working in building, participatory installation, and durational activation, she creates frameworks that invite collective labor and shared authorship. Influenced by ecofeminist and queer methodologies, her work emphasizes maintenance, repetition, and presence over finished form. Projects such as Re.tangle position craft as social infrastructure, exploring how communal making can support connection, responsibility, and resilience within contemporary art contexts.
KiranJandu.com @kirankjandu
Anna Chapman
Anna Chapman is an artist, an art educator, and a community arts facilitator. These three modes of practice directly inform each other, yielding a sustainable and holistic approach that allows her to flow between intuitive expression, communal/environmental relationality, and creative mentorship.
AnnaChapmanArt.com @owl_and_apple
Kara Ziebelman
“Garden Dream,” 2026, 18x24 in, acrylic on canvas, $2,000.
@karaziebelman
Lydia McCarthy
“Fear Vibration,” 2026, Archival Inkjet Print in Blue Velvet Frame, 8x10 in, Edition of 5, $850.
@lydiamccarthy
Grace Flott
"For Margaret Sanger," 2026, Oil on birch panel, 24x18 inches, $6900.
@graceathenaart
Hong Yang
“Edge of the Forest,” 2025, Oil on Canvas, 12x18 in, $2000.
@yang_hong90
Lily Rose Fine
“Locked Box,” 2025, acrylic on found wooden box and human hair, 8x5.3x7 in, $1100.
@lilyfine
Candice Spry
“Turning Psyche,” 2024, Carrara Marble, 25x25x25 in, $7000.
@cregards
Kim White
“Tower Necklace,” 2026, Porcelain, 7x11.5 in, $400.
@kimwhitecreative
Elizabeth Pedinotti Haynes
“Bloom,” Archival Pigment Print, edition of 6 +2AP, 18x24 in, $1200 unframed, $1550 framed.
@elizabethphaynes
Amy Guidry
"Echoes," 2026, Acrylic on canvas, 10x8 in, $900.
@amy_guidry_artist
Julie Carcione
“Lalique Medusa,” 2026, Rayon Thread, 20x20 in, $2200.00.
@julie_carcione
Ineke Knudsen
“The Cherubim,” 2025, oil on canvas, 12x10in, $2500.
@inekeknudsenart
Lu Valena
“Birdcloud #4 (Grackles),” 2025, Oil and acrylic on recycled paper, fabric, wire, motor in wooden housing, 28x16x14 in, $700.
@lu_valena
Mara Baldwin
“Flickering (#1, #2, #10, #14, #17 #20, #22, #28, #52, #63)", 2024-2026, natural and organic debris, sizes vary, $250 each.
@marabaldwin