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
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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An exhibition in the form of a publication with Eeva-Maija Pulkkinen, Tuukka Kaila, Maarit Mustonen, sidony o’neal, Anna Tomi and James & Lempi Prevett. Made for the Patsastellaan: Parties for Public Sculpture Project
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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