House Projects 2007-2008

House Projects was a series of seven exhibitions spanning five months in 2007, in various locations (Ireland, London and New York), with the participation of seven coordinators/curators, forty-nine artists, and eight writers. It was conceived as an interdisiplinary collaboration between artists, curators and critics, intended to eschew established or heirarchical roles. The publication, which is the summation of that collaboration, serves as a document of the artworks that made up the exhibitions, alongside texts that alternately describe, react to, contextualise, or act as a critical response to the curators’ ideas.

The formal model out of which House Projects operated put the organisation of each exhibition in the hands of an individual co-ordinator, who curated an exhibition in their house (or in response to their housing situation). It was based upon the recognition of an ‘art-local’ audience, a peer-to-peer audience, the make up of which being small groupings on an international scale who acted as an important reception point in the dissemination and spread of cultural ideas, as well the possibility of mobilising an international peer network to allow a large project succeed on the basis of the input of combined resources. Further to this was the ambition to to explore alternative spatial and temporal relationships between artist and site, artworks and audience, the private and the public.

Intentional Community, Killiney Hill, 2007
Curated by Gavin Murphy as part of House Projects

Mongrel Foundation (Karl Burke, Rhona Byrne, Mark Garry, Gillian Kane, Gavin Murphy) with Nina Canell & Robin Watkins (Sweden/Irl), Suki Chan (UK), and Myles Claffey

Pictured above: Intentional Community and House Projects publication

Supported by: Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council

House Projects, 2008
Gavin Murphy (ed.), designed by Atelier David Smith
200-page hardcover book with ‘stepped’ cover design, colour/B&W, numbered edition of 500.
Texts by Declan Long, Maeve Connolly, Dave Dyment, Cliodhna Shaffrey, Catherine Bernard, Niamh NicGhabhann, Padraic E. Moore and Tim Stott.
Published by House Projects and Atelier Projects, 2008
ISBN: 978-0-9549844-2-7

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Funded by The Arts Council