THREE FIELDS is a collaboration between five organisations across India, South Africa, and the UK, bringing together three artists to collectively explore food systems, regenerative agricultural practices, and indigenous knowledge through sustainable immersive technologies. Over the course of a year and culminating in early 2026, Three Fields focused on sustainable digital production and set out to explore environmentally conscious creative digital practices.
Artists Deepa Reddy (India), Samukelisiwe Siphesihle Dube (South Africa) and Kaajal Modi (UK) post their experiences of the collaboration on the THREE FIELDS website, exploring their shared interests in migration, movement and spices.
The collaboration was shared publicly through a residency in Leeds Kirkgate Market, a talk by the artists at Fak’ugesi African Digital Innovation Festival in Johannesburg and a prototype binaural soundscape installation at EyeMyth Media Arts Festival in Delhi.
THREE FIELDS: Listening to spices as seeds, plants, and landscapes
Presented at EyeMyth Media Arts Festival in Delhi, 21-22 February 2026
Conscious of the many ways in which movements of plants, people, and food have made modern food systems as they are—whether forced and desired, engineered and organic, industrial and personal—conversations between the artists gravitated towards food migrations.
A key modality throughout the collaboration has been listening: to each other, to stories that specific ingredients such as spices carry, to the interstices between things loudly and commonly known, and the gaps where no sounds go.
What do we hear when we listen to spices speaking? The prototype exhibited at EyeMyth explores this via three unique binaural soundscapes, each of them returning us to ecologies and landscapes lost in mass commerce and industrial-scale production.
THREE FIELDS is an international co-comission between Abandon Normal Devices, Arts Catalyst, Fak’ugesi, Fast Familiar and Unbox. Funded by the British Council’s International Collaboration Grants and supported using public funding by Arts Council England.