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Building on my work with imaginary relationships and constructed intimacies, I turn in the current project from explorations of individual attachments to the home as a system encompassing multiple relationships and flows. Offering a multitude of material anchors and cultural narratives as points of engagement, the home becomes a framework for improvisation and a space to perform within. Architectural details and domestic dramas excised from the flow of the everyday become the events and occasions to stage my machinic interventions.
Drawing on Bachelard’s topoanalysis (“the systematic psychological study of the sites of our intimate lives”) I take a systems approach to the study of the home and the network of relationships within. Where do systems understandings lose their traction in engagement with the messy conditions of home, family, love, and desire? Where do they succeed? What truth is there in Corbusier’s idea conception of “the home as a machine for living in”?
Embracing tensions between past and future, self and other, biography and fiction, the imagined and real, I rehearse possible futures and perform possible selves through the pieces I construct. Staging my efforts as real interventions in lived space, and restaging them to produce a composite, fictional “home” in the exhibition venue, I push a critical implication of my identity in my efforts, along with the home and machines within.
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