WITH (OUT)

 

'Outside and inside are both intimate - they are always ready to be reversed to exchange their hostility. If there exists aborder - line surface between such an inside-outside, this surface is painful on both sides.” Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of SpaceSet within the residential space of a flat in a converted Victorian terrace, WITH(OUT) is a multimedia exhibition that bringstogether an interdisciplinary selection of artworks such as mixed media, installation film, performance, talks and workshops.Located within a site that still functions as a repository of romanticised ideas of the 'home” in an increasingly unstable globaleconomic landscape, and drawing upon polynational understandings of the living space, the exhibition explores the ambivalentrelationship between the interior and the exterior that plays out over issues such as identity, borders and migration, belongingand longing, the tensions of navigating between the different spheres.We invite you in, though by crossing the threshold and entering, you are at once dissipating its boundaries and embarking ajourney within and without. Will you wipe your feet on your way in? What residue of the exterior world will you bring in with you?WI

 

WITH (OUT)

'Outside and inside are both intimate - they are always ready to be reversed to exchange their hostility. If there exists aborder - line surface between such an inside-outside, this surface is painful on both sides.” Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space

Set within the residential space of a flat in a converted Victorian terrace, WITH(OUT) is a multimedia exhibition that brings together an interdisciplinary selection of art works such as mixed media, installation film, performance, talks and workshops. Located within a site that still functions as a repository of romanticised ideas of the 'home” in an increasingly unstable global economic landscape, and drawing upon polynational understandings of the living space, the exhibition explores the ambivalent relationship between the interior and the exterior that plays out over issues such as identity, borders and migration, belonging and longing, the tensions of navigating between the different spheres. We invite you in, though by crossing the threshold and entering, you are at once dissipating its boundaries and embarking ajourney within and without. Will you wipe your feet on your way in? What residue of the exterior world will you bring in with you?

 

 

SOMETHING HUMAN

Something Human is an international curator-collective that recognises the different cultural contexts from which we work and interact, as well as brings together our concomitant interests in architecture, design, sculpture, mixed media, moving image and performance. Anna Viani, Annie Jael Kwan, Mirabelle Spreckelsen, Nobuhiro Kobayashi and Simone Ruth are Something Human.