House Work
by BETHANY SMALL
  • WHO & WHAT

    Diana Smith as tourguide to the homes of the following artists: Lucas Abela, Ella Barclay, Ben Corbett, Nicholas Coyle, Keg de Souza, Alice Gage, Dara Gill, James Harney, Shane Haseman, Julia Holderness, Henry Kember and Rosealee Pearson.

    EVENT DETAILS
  • WHEN

    Sat Dec 10, 1pm-6pm

  • WHERE

    Redfern and Waterloo. Register your attendance with Performance Space to receive the meeting point address.

    RSVP
  • HOW MUCH

    Free, but you must RSVP.

published on 29th November, 2011

Stars! No, wait. Artists! They’re just like us! Since the recognition of the Documented Instance of Public Eating (let’s call it DIPE) amongst celebrities as a ‘thing’, the floodgates opened for all kinds of evidence of the essential ‘person-dom’ of those both notable and eminent. Diana Smith – herself an artist – presents some evidence in the form of House Work, a Witnessed Evidence of Living Somewhere (WELS) as part of the WALK season at Performance Space.

The ‘Somewhere’ in question is both the Redfern/Waterloo area in general, and homes within it at a more specific level. Smith has managed to get twelve artists to open their doors for the afternoon and allow visitors in to see a once-off performance or installation the artists will have undertaken inside their home, for the purpose of this event. These are people you’ve probably heard of, such as Dara Gill, Alice Gage, Ben Corbett.

A practical demonstration of how domesticity and artistic practice feed into and influence each other, House Work is the shaded-in part of a work/life Venn diagram. Wait, diagrams are homework, aren’t they? Luckily there is an actual artist to talk you through it on the day.

 

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