Things for Homes / Homes for Things
2018 -
2018 -
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, a series of twelve sculpture given to people and a an artist book to be published in 2022.
https://taco.org.uk/T4H-H4T
The project has resulted in a series of five 30min audio works for radio broadcast, a series of twelve sculpture given to people and a an artist book to be published in 2022.
https://taco.org.uk/T4H-H4T
Malmö Monument
2022
2022
Congratulations! For the next month you are the custodian of Malmö Monument # 01 (01-05). After one month has past, you must choose somebody else to be the next custodian and give them the sculpture. They in turn will look after the sculpture in their home, until it is their turn to choose another custodian.
The Malmö Monument is a series of five small peripatetic, or nomadic public sculptures moving around people’s homes in Malmö. Each sculpture is a copy of an original that was made collectively during a workshop in May 2022. Each one is slightly different. You can use the sculpture as you like in your own home. The only rule is the you must care for the sculpture, and when it is time, to choose another custodian who will honour this agreement to care for the sculpture, and then pass it on. We hope that the sculpture continues to tour around Malmö for years to come as a collectively owned public sculpture.
https://www.flockprojects.se/pgende-ongoing/malmmonument
The sculpture comes in a box with these instructions. Please pass these on the the next custodian. We would also like you to send us a photo of it inside your home once it finds its place. Please send as good resolution photograph as you ca,n to artist James Prevett who initiated the project. The photos will be added to a growing archive of all the places the sculptures have been housed and looked after.
The Malmö Monument is a series of five small peripatetic, or nomadic public sculptures moving around people’s homes in Malmö. Each sculpture is a copy of an original that was made collectively during a workshop in May 2022. Each one is slightly different. You can use the sculpture as you like in your own home. The only rule is the you must care for the sculpture, and when it is time, to choose another custodian who will honour this agreement to care for the sculpture, and then pass it on. We hope that the sculpture continues to tour around Malmö for years to come as a collectively owned public sculpture.
https://www.flockprojects.se/pgende-ongoing/malmmonument
The sculpture comes in a box with these instructions. Please pass these on the the next custodian. We would also like you to send us a photo of it inside your home once it finds its place. Please send as good resolution photograph as you ca,n to artist James Prevett who initiated the project. The photos will be added to a growing archive of all the places the sculptures have been housed and looked after.
Patsastellaan:
Parties for Public Sculpture
2013 -
Parties for Public Sculpture
2013 -
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/
Isolation Sculptures
with Lempi Prevett
2020
with Lempi Prevett
2020
A series of sculptures made with my daughter whilst in isolation during the COVID-19 lockdowns.
Things for Homes / Homes for Things - Book
2022
2022
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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