The Slippery Performance of Domesticity

Our roots are within ourselves. We must ask ourselves whether we are the branches of other boughs and roots, or whether we are their seeds, granted with the potency to make our own roots.

Roots run deep, some roots find detours into fungi. It shouldn’t be precluded that perhaps, we are the fungi of larger plants, maybe even larger ecosystems. Although with all parasitic relationships, we should also be aware of how the interplay between host and parasites are symbiotic, impossible to entangle. That is to suggest, homes too can be the parasites - that we love them even if they may eventually drain us fully.

Text by Fraser Hanley-Nicholls and Bart Seng Wen Long

Room Curators
Anna Nazo
Bart Seng Wen Long
Danielle Anderson

Participating Artists:
James Thomson
Bart Seng Wen Long
Danielle Anderson
Fraser Hanley-Nicholls
Gabrielle Jin
Lauren Hillsdon
Rivkah Mitchell-Dhillon
Danielle Anderson
Yura Kim
Fraser Hanley-Nicholls
Hayley Richardson
Owen Bennett
Katy Philpot
Shiliang Hu