INhabit
Home is the central place from which our everyday activities start and return. In the INhabit project, I explore what ideas individuals actually have about home. In conversations, I ask people to describe their individual mental images of “home” and then transform them into drawings. The constantly growing collection of images of the most diverse perceptions of “home” includes around 60 interviews with people from Italy, Holland, Belgium, Israel, the Czech Republic, Germany, Thailand etc. The conversations on which the drawings are based took place live in the exhibition 999: A Collection of Questions on Contemporary Living, 201. During the Covid pandemic, I was gradually contacting the interviewees again in 2020 in order to follow the changes in their ideas as a result of the lockdown.
Das Zuhause ist der zentrale Ort, von wo aus unsere alltägliche Aktivitäten starten und zurückführen. Welche
Vorstellungen der/die Einzelne von Zuhause tatsächlich hat, beleuchte ich in dem Projekt INhabit. In Gesprächen
lasse ich mir individuelle mentale Bilder von „Zuhause“ beschreiben und transformiere diese anschließend in
Zeichnungen. Die stetig wachsende Ansammlung an Bildern unterschiedlichster Auffassungen von „Zuhause“
umfasst bisher um die 60 Interviews mit Menschen aus Italien, Holland, Belgien, Israel, Tschechien, Deutschland,
Thailand etc. Die den Zeichnungen zugrunde liegenden Gespräche finden live in der Ausstellung 999 Questions on
Contemporary Living 2018 statt. Während Corona kontaktiere ich 2020 nach und nach die Gesprächspartner*innen
von Neuem, um die Veränderungen der Vorstellungen durch den Lockdown zu verfolgen.
The exhibition 999: A Collection of Questions on Contemporary Living was a "sweeping investigation of the concept of house and home, living and dwelling, on the borderline between the physical and digital worlds." It was concepted as an ever-changing exhibition, which evolved in space and time "through communities, companies, activists, schools, multinational corporations, informal groups, research centres, designers, and artists. The exhibition was conceived and curated by Stefano Mirti and took place at La Triennale di Milano from 12 January to 2 April 2018. As an artist-in-residence at BASE Milano, I was invited to contribute to this show with the participative project INhabit during within 3 weeks.
