Field Trip is a live exhibition by Korean British artist Bob Kil and Danish artist Nina Beier. Conceived as an orchestrated collision between Beier’s sculpture and Kil’s performance, Field Trip merges organic objects and moving bodies, turning the entire exhibition space into a living, breathing entity.

Upon entering Beier’s sprawling sculptural installation Field, visitors are met with 6,000 flowers planted in fake terracotta pots. The repetitive arrangement in meticulous rows with defined pathways gives the sense of wandering into a digital realm of infinite loops and depth. But this isn’t a digital landscape – it is grounded in a tangible reality that echoes the cultivation of fields, each crop a clone of its neighbor, indistinguishable from the next. Kil’s performance Trip takes place every hour. The performers traverse the pathways, carrying out synchronized, choreographed gestures — dragging their feet, marching in unison, pausing abruptly.

The synchronicity of the gestures and the repetitive visual stimulation through the manipulation of multiple bodies is set in dialogue with the repetitiveness of the field providing a fluid, rhythmic counterpoint to the stasis of the potted flowers. Yet, as time elapses, Field slowly transforms. What begins as vibrant blossoms eventually wilt, shifting the dynamics between permanent sculpture and transient performance.

The titles, Field and Trip hold significance beyond their apparent meanings. While Field evokes the laborious monotony of industrialized agriculture, Trip alludes to journeys and altered states of consciousness. Together, they forge an excursion along the crossroads of work and leisure, singularity and community, dynamism and inertia.

*Performances are held every hour from 12 pm-7 pm

*Performances will be held from 3 pm-10 pm on September 7 (Thu) due to Frieze Seoul’s Samcheong Night.