Announcing our THREE FIELDS artists

Throughout 2025, Abandon Normal Devices (UK), Arts Catalyst (UK), Fak’ugesi (South Africa), Fast Familiar (UK), UnBox Cultural Futures (IN) will come together to commission and support three creative practitioners from India, South Africa, and the UK to make a new collaborative digital and interactive work exploring food systems, from regenerative agricultural practices to indigenous knowledges; documenting and setting a new precedent for environmentally conscious creative digital practices.

Artists:

Deepa Reddy (India) is a cultural anthropologist, college professor, writer, and blogger with one too many research foci, one of the more sustaining ones of which is food systems. Her blog, Pâticheri, explores food from cultivation to consumption, combining personal narratives, recipes, cultural analysis, and research. Her academic background in anthropology and her extensive research and publications (including work on ethnicity, social movements, biopolitics, and food) provide a foundation for understanding the complex relationships between various things in the world which don’t seem connected but usually are.

Samukelisiwe Siphesihle Dube (South Africa) is a Black, queer multidisciplinary artist from the province of Mpumalanga. Deeply influenced by her late grandmother, she and her mother recreated her garden as a tribute and space for healing. Her work explores nature, grief, and identity through printmaking and plant growth on handmade paper. Dube has completed her Fine Arts Honours degree at Wits University in 2024, she is also a practicing tattoo artist, as well as a co-publisher for HOOPS magazine. She participated in the 2023 Peace Symposium exhibition with the Japan Institute.

Kaajal Modi (UK) is an artist-researcher with a strong material engagement with food, land, water and the politics of how humans relate to and through these. Working through creative practices, they explore how making in collaboration with diverse communities (human, microbial and otherwise) can be a way to recover climate practices in ways that open up new speculations on how we might live in the future. As part of the project ‘Kitchen Cultures’ they run a series of workshops around food waste, fermentation and migration, which so far have led to a recipe and poetry book, an immersive kitchen soundscape/podcast, a series of workshops and an ongoing library project. Their co-creation practice incorporates illustration, live art, sound, video and sensory workshops to create lively and situated encounters between people, organisms and ecosystems.

THREE FIELDS is an international collaboration between Abandon Normal Devices, Artscatalyst, Fakugesi, Fast Familiar and Unbox. Funded by the British Council’s International Collaboration Grants and supported using public funding by Arts Council England.