MilliOnAir Magazine October 2019 | Page 249

Promiscuous and dangerously volatile, Field's multiverse is a place where ballroom dancing and comic book mutilation intersect. Nothing in Western culture is safe from Fields, for as the artist argued in his 'MAXIMALism' manifesto of 1995, digital media has rendered history part of a continuous present.

Fields confronts us with the (sur)reality of an infinitely malleable, perpetually mediated world. The new media of the digital age allow 'infinite opportunities for new synthetic constructs', writes Fields

. 'We are of necessity the Primitives of a New Sensibility, born in the Virtual Age.'