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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 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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