Performing Home by Stuart Andrews - 9781032176185

Taylor & Francis

Performing HomeAuthor(s): Stuart Andrews\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032176185, 978-1032176185\nSynopsis\nPerforming Home is the first sustained study of the ways in which artists create artworks in, and in response to, domestic dwellings.\n\nIn the context of growing interest in ideas and practices that cross between architecture, arts practice and performance, it is valuable to understand what happens when artists make work in and about specific buildings. This is particularly important with domestic dwellings, which can be bound up with experiences, issues, practices and understandings of home. The book focuses on a range of recent artistic projects to identify and investigate critical ways by which artists practise domestic dwellings. In doing so, it addresses the ways in which artists enquire into a dwelling, are resident in a dwelling, adapt the form of a dwelling, practise a mobile dwelling, and make.