INFINITE FIELD combined color 35mm slides Barbara Neri took of a cornfield over a period of years as it changed seasonally, with 16mm film of an autumn walk through the same cornfield. After these images are shown, Neri begins sweeping a mound of 100 lbs of yellow kernel corn into ever expanding spiraling patterns. When the design is complete she sweeps it all back into the original mound. The work was first performed at the Cleveland Performance Art Festival in 1995 sans the color slides and film of the field. (The color photo is of the Cleveland performance.) Barbara Neri performed INFINITE FIELD in its entirety, with slides and film, as guest artist of the University of Michigan School of Art and Design in 2001 (B & W photos, Glenn Bering). An Infinite Field DVD of the 2001 performance was created in 2007. Neri's 'Infinite Field DVD' was shown at WORK Gallery Detroit as part of the ICON exhibition in 2008. See a six minute excerpt of this sixty minute DVD below. Find a link to the INFINITE FIELD artist statement Neri wrote for the ICON exhibit below.
