Temporary House of Home
The home serves as the stage for all kinds of daily rituals, some intimate. Each minute follows an unwritten yet well-known script. And every room offers the necessary décor for this. The mutual interactions between bodies and spaces are defined much more strictly than we realise during the performance of these rituals.
Wonderment Domastication
Gabriel A. Maher's research Wonderment Domastication* explores tacitly queer domestic rituals. Instead of the usual concept of domestication, Maher deliberately uses the term 'domastication'; the pre-programmed functions of the various rooms in the house (featured in this work/research) are not followed normatively but are mixed together and compressed.
The space of the house functions as a scenography, while the movements and behaviour of the residents are perceived as a choreography. Through performance, this project explores and mediates the meanings of these everyday movements and behaviours, and the way they reveal relationships between identity and the space one inhabits.
- Caroline Bergvall, Éclat SITES 1-10 (Ubu Editions, 1997) 13
Design: Gabriel .A. Maher