Live
event by artist Jeanie Finlay to mark the end of her project Home-Maker
March 14th 2006
1pm. Hatton Gallery, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne.
The racks and shelves of second hand shops are full of treasured
photo albums, well-worn jumpers and tea stained cups cleared from
the homes of the recently deceased. Once well-loved items are now
homeless and have lost their sentimental effect. Detached from their
owners, they are transformed into junk. The House Clearance
of Home-maker exposes the ephemeral nature of our private self-constructed
worlds.
In her project Home-maker, Jeanie Finlay explores what makes a house
a home by depicting the lives of seven housebound older people in
Derbyshire and Tokyo. In a series of short documentary films these
homemakers talk about their lives, passions and the objects that
surround them. The work consists of a two-room set, reminiscent
of a giant dolls house with a typical English and Japanese living
room side by side where you sit, watch and interact with the films.
At 1300h on 14 March Heaton Used Furniture house clearance
staff moved into the Home-Maker set at the Hatton Gallery to strip
the rooms, pack up the contents and sell it on. The intricate stories
and memories of home will be dismantled and severed from the clutter.
You are invited to visit the homemakers in their temporary homes
one last time, witness its fragmentation and onward journey.
The event was filmed and will be made into a short film for the
Home-Maker web site and Home-Maker will be available to view
here.
