The Grand Domestic Revolution GOES ON
dal 10/9/2012 al 26/10/2012
Segnalato da
Matthijs de Bruijne
Enemies of Good Art
Andrea Francke
GDR Library
Annette Krauss
Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad
kleines postfordisches Drama
Travis Meinolf
Martina Mullaney
Christian Nyampeta
Pauline Boudry
Renate Lorenz
Our Autonomous Life?
Read-in
Helke Sander
Joseph Williams
Rehana Zama
Binna Choi
Maiko Tanaka
10/9/2012
The Grand Domestic Revolution GOES ON
The Showroom, London
Inspired by US late nineteenth-century 'material feminist', GDR involved artists, designers, domestic workers, architects, gardeners, activists and others to collaboratively experiment with and re-articulate the domestic sphere challenging traditional and contemporary divisions of private and public.
AND Publishing, ASK! (Actie Schone Kunsten), Domestic Workers Netherlands with Matthijs de Bruijne, Enemies of Good Art, Andrea Francke, GDR Library, Annette Krauss, Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad, kleines postfordisches Drama, Travis Meinolf, Martina Mullaney, Christian Nyampeta, Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz, Our Autonomous Life?,Read-in, Helke Sander, Joseph Williams, Rehana Zaman
The Grand Domestic Revolution (GDR) is an ongoing ‘living research’ project initiated by Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht as a multi-faceted exploration of the domestic sphere to imagine new forms of living and working in common.
Inspired by US late nineteenth-century ‘material feminist’ movements that experimented with communal solutions to isolated domestic life and work, GDR involved artists, designers, domestic workers, architects, gardeners, activists and others to collaboratively experiment with and re-articulate the domestic sphere challenging traditional and contemporary divisions of private and public. Now GDR goes on, evolving in different scales and extensions, taken up and transformed in different cities, sites and neighbourhoods by those who desire to carry on the GDR from their own home base or by those already engaged with it in their local languages and practices.
At The Showroom an exhibition of contemporary and historical artworks and a diverse and growing reference library will form a base for workshops and events that will develop the GDR further, while they will forge connections and affinities with The Showroom’s ongoing programme of neighbourhood-based commissions – Communal Knowledge.
Exhibited works employ a wide range of methodologies to playfully problematise domestic issues such as work at home, housing rights, property relations, family economies, neighbourhood struggles, and range from the satirical to social critique and activist actions. These include GDR’s cooperatively produced sitcom, Our Autonomous Life? (2010–11); Pauline Boudry and Renata Lorenz’s housewives’ manifesto Charming for the Revolution (2009); Rehana Zaman’s Like an Iron Maiden Trapped Between a Rock and Hard Place (2010); and a shadow-play work I will not ask anything about you, you will not ask anything about me (2011) produced by domestic workers in the Netherlands in collaboration with Matthijs de Bruijne, and public cleaning actions by a group of cultural workers intersecting art work and domestic work, ASK! (Actie Schone Kunsten). A new video work by artist Joseph Williams, a member of the homeless artist collective Seymour Arts, will be produced and presented. A full list of works and events will be available on The Showroom’s website www.theshowroom.org.
The Grand Domestic Revolution GOES ON is realised in the framework of COHAB, a two-year project initiated by The Showroom, Casco - Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht and Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, supported by a Cooperation Measures grant from the European Commission Culture 2007-2013 Programme. It has been additionally supported by: Mondriaan Foundation, Arts Council England, Outset Contemporary Art Fund, as The Showroom’s Production Partner 2012, and The Showroom Supporters’ Scheme. Communal Knowledge is generously supported by Paul Hamlyn Foundation, The Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and John Lyon’s Charity.
Image: Domestic Workers Netherlands with Matthijs de Bruijne I WILL NOT ASK ANYTHING ABOUT YOU, YOU WILL NOT ASK ANYTHING ABOUT ME, 2011, courtesy the artist
For more information please contact Eve Smith at eve@theshowroom.org or calling 020 7724 4300.
Tuesday 11 Sep 2012, 6.30–9.30pm
Exhibition opening
6.30pm: Curators talk and discussion: Binna Choi and Maiko Tanaka
7.15pm: Screening of the sitcom Our Autonomous Life? (Episode 2) with cast members and writers Anja Groten, Bart Stuart Katayoun Arian, Klaar van der Lippe, Mariska Versantvoort and Nazima Kadir.
8pm 'Penfold's Cupboard' a temporary restaurant founded in collaboration between Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad and senior citizens from 60 Penfold Community Hub. Opening for the first time to serve dinner for GDR visitors.
The Showroom
63, Penfold Street - London