Collecting Home, Nov 2011 - Feb 2012 

/ Book (edition of 100), 2012. Available from the artist,

/ 4 glass cabinets display, Cuming Museum, 2012

/ Double sided ceramic book cover, 2012

/ A series of poetry and text pieces, 2012

/ 4 roundtable discussions, 2012

/ Participatory workshops in local schools, a community centre, MA architecture workshops, 2011-2012

/ Limited edition of screenprinted posters, series, collaboration with C. Claisse, 2012

/ Procession, Going Home, collaboration with Vanessa Woolf, 2012


Collecting Home project was a residency by artist Eva Sajovic (in collaboration with writer Sarah Butler) at the Cuming Museum during which they explored the idea of home through objects and how meaning is constructed through image, stories and conversation.

The duo selected a number of objects from the Cuming collection and invited the local public to layer them with stories as well as bring objects that signified home to them into the museum and share the story connected with them. Participants’ objects where displayed alongside museum objects to question how objects operate in our lives and homes and what difference it makes when an object exists in a home or behind glass.


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The project is documented in Collecting Home book, designed by Marie Artaker, 2012. Full colour, ed. 50.

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WORKING PROCESS

We selected a number of objects from the Cuming Museum collection and through a general call invited locals to conversational sessions. The selected objects were displayed alongside objects that the locals brought, within glass cabinets in the museum exhibition space.

Selecting objects from the Cuming Museum Archive.

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Layering objects with stories about home by locals through conversational sessions.

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Displaying museum objects alongside objects that locals bring.

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Rotating display in the glass cabinets, Home From Home exhibition, Cuming Museum.

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Locals talk about objects that contain personal meanings related to 'home'. This is chain by Sanna.

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Locals talk about objects that contain personal meanings related to 'home'. Puzzle by Joan.

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Locals talk about objects that contain personal meanings related to 'home'. Jewellery and henna by the Rockingham Women.

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Locals talk about objects that contain personal meanings related to 'home'. Sculpted walnut shells by Chloe. 

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NEW WORK

In response to the collection (selected from the Museum's colletion and collected by temporary donations from the locals) we created new works: ceramic double sided book cover, text pieces, rubber stamps, limited edition of screenprinted posters.

Glass cabinet display of collected and selected objects with new text works written by Sarah Butler in response.

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KEEPING

He used it to write down the football results

- didn't get far

And this one's from a shop in Glasgow

- second hand.


I collect the things people say

my gran scratching her chin

faces

- and here's Italy.


URBAN WANDERINGS

Thirty addresses

including the sofas and floors,

but on Waterloo bridge

I stood and thought

this is my city.


SIGNIFICANCE

What comes up in the dig

- just found

objects looking for homes.

You can't make them mean something

to anyone else.


text works by Sarah Butler

Double sided ceramic book cover by Eva Sajovic, in response to stories by locals, objects and place.

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Limited edition of screenprinted posters cataloguing the collected objects that participants brought and a set of stamps. In collaboration with Caroline Claisse.

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A set of stamps by C.Claisse.

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COLLECTING through ENGAGEMENT

We engaged with the locals through one-to-one sessions but also through a residency in the E&C shopping centre, workshops with local schools, MA architecture students, a community event, a roundtable discussions, a storytelling procession, a collaboration with Caroline Claisse. This happened on and off site.

Some of the participants produced new work through this process.

3 day residency in E&C shopping centre:  collecting stories from locals and locating them on the map (see photo that follows).

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Mapping local's stories during a 3 day residency in E&C shopping centre.

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Elevation drawing of E&C shopping centre. As part of workshops with MA CASS students and Cottrell&Vermeulen architects. 

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Jam jar boxes of 'home'. Workshop with Crampton school students who created their works and have them displayed in the Cuming Museum.

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Home, houses constructed during one day outreach workshop as part of Walworth Fayre.

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Home, houses constructed during one day outreach workshop as part of Walworth Fayre.

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Participants series of photographs produced by students of a local primary school in response to the theme of home.

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Conversation Object in our lives and imaginations with Guy Manness_Abbott.

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Conversation As Neighbour at the Cuming Museum with Frances Williams , Ana Laura Lopez de la Torre, Synthia Griffin, Ahmet Ogut, Barby Asante, Louise Coysh, Sarah Butler and Eva Sajovic.

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Conversation on The Local with Ana Laura Lopez de la Torre and Katie Orr, Gasworks.

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GOING HOME

A storytelling procession led by storyteller Vanessa Woolf accompanied by musician Nigel of Bermondsey. Participants were invited to bring objects to add to the shrine. This was carried in a procession from E&C shopping centre through the area towards the Cuming Museum. The story represented and was a reminder that art objects that are preserved in museum institutions and archives are firstly commodities before they become art. 

Participants responses that were fed into the story.

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FINALE

Closing event and party included a workshop led by Shane Waltener, a discussion led by Barby Asante and a final display of all the work produced during the 6 months residency at the Cuming Museum.

A halo of local's stories written on stripes of paper produced by participants during a workshop led by Shane Waltener and installed within the Home From Home exhibition space, Cuming Museum. Part of residency closing event that also included a roundtable conversation let by Barby Asante.

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THE BOOK

The project is documented in a Collecting Home book, printed in an edition of 100.

Available from the artist.

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