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H O M E C O M I N G
Anna Dunnill, Emily Simek
Home exhibition
Wurundjeri Land
Brunswick East
Part of the exhibition series ‘Hot Compost Home Tour’ produced with Seventh Gallery, 2024
The house shelters daydreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
– Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
Homecoming is a publication launch and the final exhibition in ‘Hot Compost Home Tour’, a home-based touring series with Seventh Gallery that unfolded over several months in Naarm, culminating with a shared reading of a text by artist and writer Anna Dunnill.
Writing alongside the tour, Anna follows a quilt that travels to three different homes in turn, for a month each. Each leg of the home tour is curated by the home’s occupant, and carries a different expression of what a ‘home’ means and how a quilt might function within it. A house lived in continuously for thirty-seven years. A one-bedroom flat on a precarious lease. A space extending beyond the walls of the house into community gardens, schools, and the soil we share with numerous small creatures.
In this event, participants were invited to join in a shared reading of the text with collaborators involved in the tour, hosted in my rental unit. Each attendee received a limited edition zine.
Hot Compost Home Tour is an offsite exhibition series by Emily Simek in collaboration with Merri Cheyne, Anna Dunnill, Eric Jong, Mei Sun and Doug Webb, produced with Seventh Gallery. The home-based tour explores composting as an approach to exhibition practice. Using relational ethics as a framework, the project considers the conditions of the various exchanges that ‘create’ compost: how and where does it come to exist? How are different collaborators implicated? Instead of a purely material process, composting becomes about the work of relationships within systems of exchange.
Photography by Astrid Mulder.
This project was supported by a VCA50 Creative Development Grant, Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, University of Melbourne.
Anna Dunnill, Emily Simek
Home exhibition
Wurundjeri Land
Brunswick East
Part of the exhibition series ‘Hot Compost Home Tour’ produced with Seventh Gallery, 2024
The house shelters daydreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
– Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
Homecoming is a publication launch and the final exhibition in ‘Hot Compost Home Tour’, a home-based touring series with Seventh Gallery that unfolded over several months in Naarm, culminating with a shared reading of a text by artist and writer Anna Dunnill.
Writing alongside the tour, Anna follows a quilt that travels to three different homes in turn, for a month each. Each leg of the home tour is curated by the home’s occupant, and carries a different expression of what a ‘home’ means and how a quilt might function within it. A house lived in continuously for thirty-seven years. A one-bedroom flat on a precarious lease. A space extending beyond the walls of the house into community gardens, schools, and the soil we share with numerous small creatures.
In this event, participants were invited to join in a shared reading of the text with collaborators involved in the tour, hosted in my rental unit. Each attendee received a limited edition zine.
Hot Compost Home Tour is an offsite exhibition series by Emily Simek in collaboration with Merri Cheyne, Anna Dunnill, Eric Jong, Mei Sun and Doug Webb, produced with Seventh Gallery. The home-based tour explores composting as an approach to exhibition practice. Using relational ethics as a framework, the project considers the conditions of the various exchanges that ‘create’ compost: how and where does it come to exist? How are different collaborators implicated? Instead of a purely material process, composting becomes about the work of relationships within systems of exchange.
Photography by Astrid Mulder.
This project was supported by a VCA50 Creative Development Grant, Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, University of Melbourne.