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the south side hub of production is pleased to present

⚖ This House is Not a Home ⚖

curated by Laura Shaeffer and John Preus

February 25th - April 8th

❀ ❀ ❀ Opening Reception: Feb 25th, 6 to 11 ❀ ❀ ❀

with

Music by Zamin

and

at

⚑ ⚑ ⚑ Red Flags ⚑ ⚑ ⚑

hosts Alberto Aguilar and Rafael E. Vera will serve their collaboratively home brewed beer "Duo Planes" from Rafael's Untitled Home Brew Series, and screen their video piece "Latin Bar Moves" and a sound piece called "El Bar#11".

and

Dan Peterman in the Hyde Park Kunstverein◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉

Participating Artists

(in no particular order)



Albert Stabler and Bridget Bancroft, Jim Duignan and Watie White, Jessica Drogosz, Alexa de Togne, James Tomon, Kate Baird, Julia Oldham, Norman Teague, Doug Shaeffer, Maxime Clusel, Rachel Herman, Alberto Aguilar, Rafael E. Vera, Jessica Cochran, Michael Webster, Crystal Gregory, David Schalliol, Laurie Jo Reynolds, Heather Mekkelson, Tara Lynn Morton, Maia Cruz Palileo, Rebecca Beachy, Adam Grossi, Shawn Green and Katrin Asbury, Douglas Folgelson, Cauleen Smith, Marvin Tate, Vicky Yen, Mary King, David Durstewitz, Maria Gaspar, Chris Lin and Kayce Bayer

Home.

The word conjures up chicken soup and stale bread, joyous family life and crippling alienation, boredom and invention, brotherly love and sibling rivalry... Perennial and immanent, local and metaphysical, nostalgic and future-oriented, the images and memories of home are a conglomerate of emotion-laden things, spaces, visions, and the people and gods that inhabit them. The homemaker is tasked with the alchemy of arrangement, with flooding physical space with care, with hosting and inviting conviviality, with setting the stage for the performance of selfhood. The carpenter and architect build according to the imagined contours of the human spirit, and its propensities to dwell beyond its own shape. The "Homeland" is the place where one was a child, and where our politics are formed with their personal and collective fences and breaches. Home is the place, imagined or real, to which we are reconciled, and are always in the process of losing.



As is true of all idiomatic speech, this house is not a home has a popular meaning divergent from its literal one. It suggests a missing element, and can function as a question or suggestion, or a way to test the water for shared values, or a shorthand for an unexamined point of view, or a surreptitious way of saying something distasteful. All sorts of politics are possible in the space between house and home. Idioms allow the speaker and listener to communicate without saying too much, through a series of suggestive but retractable commitments. Similarly, SHOP functions as an idiomatic space that suggests but does not demand certain uses. It evokes certain associations without insisting upon them. It awaits the will and energy of other subjects and bodies to take up the task of turning the place into a home, whatever that may be.

The theme for this exhibition was inspired by our temporary residency in the Fenn House, once single family mansion turned rental. SHOP will leave Fenn house in the spring as First Unitarian Church has decided to put the house on the market, and the University being the most likely buyer. SHOP will again become nomadic, and in an embrace of that eventuality we invited artists to propose work that responds to the concept of home writ large, and collapses or amplifies the friction between house and home, between museum and domestic space, between public and private. The exhibition asks what is home to the exiled, the abandoned, the gypsy, the foreclosed…the homeless? What is home within a market that treats a house like a commodity, a stage set for the interchange of social capital? How does an artist address the gap between gated community and housing project? What would homeland security look like? What does this community need right now? Local and international artists responded with work about...

home as an organizational model, an institutional structure

domestic monuments and the dignity of hame-making, family life, raising children

home as utopia, dystopia

identity, and family of origin issues

domestic relationships and their material dimensions, spatial dynamics, and gestural residue

prisoners within the prison industrial complex and their memories of home

the poetics of space

zoning laws and their effects on community

home as slow culture

parenting in a world short on optimism and anticipatory grief

social interventions

educational experimentation