- Paperback: 48 pages
- Publisher: Interval Publishing (10 July 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0956311504
- ISBN-13: 978-0956311504
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This is the front room is the first group exhibition organised by artist collective `The Elephant in the Corner'. The group was founded in March 2008, through a mutual interest in testing what female collectivism can evoke today. The exhibition presents new works by each of the founding artists, Zoe Anspach, Katie Aston, Amy Croft, Virginia Phongsathorn and Eira Szadurski.
'This is the front room' includes selected material from the Elephant in the Corner wikispace and has been edited and written through ongoing and close dialogues with the group. The publication assembles and contrasts various points of interest that have informed `This is the front room', in light of the group's collaboration to date.
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The FRONT ROOM: What does it mean to be house-proud when
one's living space isn't necessarily domesticated? When one's home is an over-priced, over-taxed and under-heated storage space for books, clothes, dying basil plants and too many scarves and throws? When one's bed is shared with a laptop and yesterday's piles of reading, or when one's front room is always in disarray and nothing is really in its rightful place? When the `front room' is actually at the back of the house? (When you're still at the right age to get away with being a little bit messy?)
one's living space isn't necessarily domesticated? When one's home is an over-priced, over-taxed and under-heated storage space for books, clothes, dying basil plants and too many scarves and throws? When one's bed is shared with a laptop and yesterday's piles of reading, or when one's front room is always in disarray and nothing is really in its rightful place? When the `front room' is actually at the back of the house? (When you're still at the right age to get away with being a little bit messy?)
I think of the wife in Jacques Tati's Mon Oncle who turns on
the fish-shaped fountain in her garden as her guests arrive.
How possible is it to be a calculated host when all is bare
and laid out?
The front room has an iconography and a performance but our
own rooms are different to the ones we imagine as `front
rooms' (or Front Rooms) and the ones we might eventually
have, should we choose any such aesthetic or personal
adoptions. (Tear down the wallpaper) So how to perform the
room when the scripts are so new and yet so very old? (Mother collected perfume bottles and painted the front door red) Now that we have our rooms of our own and the liberty to make a mess of them, what is there to do?
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