The Art of Dwelling: Making with the material of lived-in places
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- 2023
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This research examines how contemporary artists in Australia have engaged with the material of lived-in places. It focuses on artists who have exhibited work in and in response to actual lived-in places, or played with the materiality of these places in their work, using houses soon to be demolished, or bits of homes, or stuff that has come out of them. The research examines the relationships among site, material and artist practice in the making of these works, and how the power of the site and what artists bring to the work – a ‘toolbox’ of familiar materials, practices and processes of discovery – combine in this kind of emergent practice to influence what is created. It examines making through dwelling, the time an artist spends with a place through, for example, artist residencies or shorter site visits; making with an artist’s belongings brought from home; and making with unoccupied houses often slated for demolition. This research will help art historians, curators, commissioners, and artists themselves better understand this type of responsive art practice and how artists engage with site and material, especially in relation to lived-in places, and this will inform how they write about, curate, commission and make work.
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