63 Waterloo Road
Homemade, 6-9 September 2007
Matt Calderwood, Dennis McNulty, David Beattie, Ingo Gerken, and David Sherry
63 Waterloo Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4
Curated by David Beattie
Central to the concerns that HOMEMADE wants to address is the notion of the everyday. Familiar objects, materials, situations recalculated to present a different experience.
"What we usually call reality is a montage. But is the one we live in the only possible one? From the same material (the everyday), we can produce different versions of reality. Contemporary art thus presents itself as an alternative editing table that shakes up social forms, re-organizes them, and inserts them into original scenarios. The artist deprograms in order to reprogram, suggesting that there are other possible uses for the techniques and tools at our disposal."
(p.72, Bourriaud, Nicolas, Post Production, Lukas + Sternberg, New York, 2002).
The artists selected for this project utilise these everyday tools at their disposal to discuss and re-interpret a life experience. Placing the work in the domestic and private space of an artist's home furthers this exploration of everyday by associating itself with the materials and situations it originates from. Play and discovery are important stages in an artist's investigations and the intention of this exhibition is to balance these notions within this everyday domestic space.
