House Work

Overview

If websites like The Selby and The Coveteur teach us anything, it’s that humans have an insatiable obsession with looking at other people’s stuff. But even more satisfying to our voyeuristic tendencies than looking at other people’s houses on the Internet is walking through them IRL. House Work is an exhibition that takes audiences on a walking tour through the normally private spaces of artists in the inner-city suburbs of Redfern and Waterloo. Each household of artists will create a performance or installation transforming the domestic sphere of the ‘home’ into a site for artistic dialogue, blurring the boundaries between art and life.

If the idea of touring through an artist’s home leaves you expecting to see some bizarre shenanigans then you might not be too disappointed. Those getting involved with the project include Lucas Abela, best known for shredding his own face into pieces with large bits of glass under the alias of Justice Yeldham, Six Ft Hick swamp rock singer Ben Corbett, and visual artist Keg de Souza who, judging by an interview she did with us earlier this year, probably doesn’t spend much time scanning the richly manicured homes of The Selby — “All I can say is thank goodness for the Public Housing so we have a little diversity still, at the moment.”

RSVP through Performance Space for the meeting point address