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MoEU [ Museum of/for Everyday Use ] [ diploma project professor-supervisor: Antonas Aristides] http://curating-the-normal.tumblr.com 2016
We live in a time when the concept of inhabitation is reconsidered. This place is a platform of rethinking P.Bourdieu’s term “habitus”. All the needs of everyday life (sleep, eating, showering etc) are approached through the mechanism of art. [Inhabit without the “habit”] Architectural design -and every curatorial gesture-are directive, but we should admit that it is only an illusion of control. Here, this happens in an extreme way. All the household is organized, presented and named differently as if it was a work of art in a museum. Each room is designed with the mechanism of art and it gives an ambiguous and different experience than the usual and creates an uncanny feeling on the normal way of living. For this reason, some technological devices are used to perform and analyze each action. At the same time, each space is created in a way that every function becomes an exhibit. It is a museum where the visitor becomes a user and at the same time an exhibit himself. A place where the distinct animality of the human being is under observation like a science experiment. In this way the project is an ironic reference to the way we overshare our lives through social networks. It is an alive archive of inhabitation and of the performativity of everyday life.
