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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Conversations Pieces
With Annie May Demoxay
2021
With Annie May Demoxay
2021
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/
Amzing Rubbish Sculpture
2021
With Lempi Prevett
2021
With Lempi Prevett
A video workshop made with Lempi Prevett (my daughter) making models for new public sculptures. Commissioned by FLOCK. Watch the video here:
https://www.flockprojects.se/arkivarchive/amazing-rubbish-sculpture
https://www.flockprojects.se/arkivarchive/amazing-rubbish-sculpture
Parts (for Muuri) scores
With Maarit Mustonen
2021
With Maarit Mustonen
2021
A publication of visual and musical scores made collectively with children, musicians and a composer. The scores were made at and in response to a temporary public sculpture by Joni Kärkkäinen and Jukka Tarvainen for the Helsinki Biennial 2021. Images by Maarit Mustonen and Ilona Burstoff
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