Track and Field
Track and Field (est. 2013) is a collaborative publishing initiative from Marc Choi and Dimitry Tetin, graphic designers and educators from Washington DC and Austin, respectively.
As first-generation immigrants (South Korea and South Ukraine), Marc and Dimitry are interested in exploring the relationships among personal, public and geographic histories within the popular American imagination. Their small-scale printed and digital work often questions the relationship between place and identity, asking why our projection of self is often so intertwined with “where” we’re from. Thematically, the work ranges from humorous to solemn—engaging time, loss, queerness and erasure on personal, public and sometimes geological scale.
Independently and collaboratively they have exhibited their work at Odds and Ends Book Fair, Chicago Art Book Fair, Short Run Comix & Arts Festival, Fully Booked, Northampton Art Book Fair, Boston Art Book Fair, DC Art Book Fair, Cincinnati Art Book Fair, Detroit Art Book Fair, Multiple Formats Symposium and Art Book Fair, Capital Art Book Fair, Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair, Seattle Art Book Fair and Pioneer Works Press Play Fair.
As first-generation immigrants (South Korea and South Ukraine), Marc and Dimitry are interested in exploring the relationships among personal, public and geographic histories within the popular American imagination. Their small-scale printed and digital work often questions the relationship between place and identity, asking why our projection of self is often so intertwined with “where” we’re from. Thematically, the work ranges from humorous to solemn—engaging time, loss, queerness and erasure on personal, public and sometimes geological scale.
Independently and collaboratively they have exhibited their work at Odds and Ends Book Fair, Chicago Art Book Fair, Short Run Comix & Arts Festival, Fully Booked, Northampton Art Book Fair, Boston Art Book Fair, DC Art Book Fair, Cincinnati Art Book Fair, Detroit Art Book Fair, Multiple Formats Symposium and Art Book Fair, Capital Art Book Fair, Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair, Seattle Art Book Fair and Pioneer Works Press Play Fair.
Track and Field, 2023
Track and Field table at the Multiple Formats Book Fair in Boston
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Dimitry Tetin, A Landscape, Track and Field, 2023 © Dimitry Tetin
A spread from: "A Landscape" a publication that explores the absences and erasures of the landscape — its reading and translation. The works place human absence in the context of the geological timescale of water, strata of rocks, lichen and ferns found in the Shawangunk Ridge in the Hudson River Valley area of New York State, where the shallow sea of the late Cambrian receded to be replaced by the jagged edges of protruding tectonic plates.
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Marc Choi, FROM WHERE YOU STAND, Track and Field, 2021 © Marc Choi
Pair of 3-color prints featuring signifiers of American heritage depicted in U.S. passports. The overlapping of text and image seeks to complicate notions of place, identity, and belonging.
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