Case Study: Home
Production: Galerija Škuc , Ljubljana, DS66 Amsterdam
Location: Galerija Škuc , Ljubljana, Slovenija
Year: 1998
Curator: Apolonija Šušteršič and Gregor Podnar
Graphic design: Silvia Hammacher
Production of cookies: Terezija Šušteršič
Photo: Apolonija Šušteršič
A display of various objects, furniture, and art works that suggest different home settings placed within the public domain; a display of documentation material on a light table and in a folder library; an installation of a temporary kitchen which becomes a public café with an herb garden where visitors can make their own espresso and bake cookies.
Case Study: Home focuses on the everyday living situation in transition. The project examines the relationship between the individual and the community, analyzing privacy and its different forms within the process of “homeing,” installing the space with the generators of good feeling, raising questions of identity and one’s position within the community, presenting forms of communication, and researching personal space and the definition of its boders. The project followed several research stages and was publicly presented in different formats. The fist stage was an exhibition in Škuc Gallery in Ljubljana, followed by lectures, discussions, and performances. The research material in this case is my subjective involvement in the living-homeing situation within the Living Community at Domselaerstraat 66, Amsterdam (DS 66). In the context of the exhibition I act as a connecting link —a curator communicating between the public and the invited artists.
The title refers to the Case Study Houses —a program which was developed in the USA after the Second World War where several major architects were commissioned to design and build inexpensive and efficient model homes o address the American residential housing boom. This experiment in American residential architecture was sponsored by Arts & Architecture magazine.
Participants from the Living Community at Domselaerstraat 66, Amsterdam (DS 66):
Anna Best with Andi Elsner, Carola Besasso, Fleur van Dissel, Georgina O. Evens, Silvia Hammacher, Lada Hršak, Sabina Kaeppler, Saskia Olde Wolbers, Deborah Rigby, Susann Rittermann, Betty Rischel, Apolonija Šušteršič, Annie Toop, Bettina Wilhelm
Performative program:
Kees van Zelst, Kitchenarias, performance
Arne Vehovar, Home Sweet Home, slide projection
Riek Sijbring, Florilegium, performance
Dan Graham, Homes for America and other projects, lecture
Jože Barši, …something about dwelling…, reading
Marjetica Potrč, Brasilia, film projection
Susanne Titz, 70s Home Striptease, reading lecture