Homes for Things / Things for Homes is a long term project with TACO! in Thamesmead, London around sculpture and the home. Evolving from a simple idea to give sculptures to local people in Thamesmead to live with, it has developed into long conversations around sculpture and the social life of objects. Why is it that so few people have what we might call sculpture in their homes? Do our objects become domesticated? Does sculpture need a public? What is it that makes something sculpture or sculptural?
The project has resulted in a series of five 30min audio works for radio broadcast (Conversation Pieces), a series of twelve sculpture given to people and an artist book published in 2022 by Rooftop Press and Taco! (see below)
https://taco.org.uk/T4H-H4T
The project has resulted in a series of five 30min audio works for radio broadcast (Conversation Pieces), a series of twelve sculpture given to people and an artist book published in 2022 by Rooftop Press and Taco! (see below)
https://taco.org.uk/T4H-H4T
A series of five sound works interweaving interview and archive sound to explore sculpture in the home. Each episode takes interviews with people in their home about the things they keep around them. These are woven together with excepts of Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth to explore our very human responses to matter and material. Conversation Pieces are made by James Prevett and Annie May Demozay for radio broadcast and form part of Prevett’s larger project Things for Homes / Homes for Things commissioned by TACO! in Thamesmead, London.
Can be listened to on RTM here:
https://rtm.fm/listen/rtm-w/conversation-pieces-20-january-22/
Can be listened to on RTM here:
https://rtm.fm/listen/rtm-w/conversation-pieces-20-january-22/
An artist book that charts the seemingly simple gesture of giving sculpture to people for their houses, and the thoughts and conversations that underpin it.
Can a sculpture survive in the home without being domesticated into just another object—a door stop or something you hang your hat on? What are the civic duties we assign to sculpture today, in comparison to the post-war nation-building and reassertion of civilisation?
At the heart of Things for Homes / Homes for Things are conversations about our social relationship to objects and the spatial relations these depend on. Prevett’s enquiry is intimate and gentle, occurring as it does on a domestic scale in the homes of people who don’t own art, and perhaps have never cared for it that much before. Without the expectations and politics that grand publicness entails, it embraces instead the potential for social connection through making and giving of sculpture to strangers.
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Can a sculpture survive in the home without being domesticated into just another object—a door stop or something you hang your hat on? What are the civic duties we assign to sculpture today, in comparison to the post-war nation-building and reassertion of civilisation?
At the heart of Things for Homes / Homes for Things are conversations about our social relationship to objects and the spatial relations these depend on. Prevett’s enquiry is intimate and gentle, occurring as it does on a domestic scale in the homes of people who don’t own art, and perhaps have never cared for it that much before. Without the expectations and politics that grand publicness entails, it embraces instead the potential for social connection through making and giving of sculpture to strangers.
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Organic Sound Society was started by Maarit Bau Mustonen and James Prevett as a loose collective for people with no musical training who want to make sound together. It meets regularly to play and sets up their instruments in other spaces for others to enjoy and play together.
The instruments have also been shown in several exhibitions with instructions that people can play them together.
The instruments have also been shown in several exhibitions with instructions that people can play them together.
An ongoing project where
https://partiesforpublicsculpture.org/
where artist(s) are invited to work with him to throw a party for a public sculpture in Helsinki. The artists choose the sculpture, define the party and invite its guests. The parties re-activate public sculptures, stimulate their public consciousness and ask what we choose to celebrate and why?
https://partiesforpublicsculpture.org/
