Re.tangle | Climate Disrupt

Kiran Jandu and Anna Chapman

Curated by Candace Jensen and Jacob Rhodes

Opening Thursday, September 10, 2026 6-8pm

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.

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