Still from ‘At Home in Moseley Road Baths directed by Paul Zinder and Kirsten Adkins
Home: Provocations on Place and Belonging at Hardwick Gallery in Cheltenham
A project-space and exhibition brought together artists and filmmakers Kirsten Adkins, Tony Clancy and Paul Zinder at Hardwick Gallery. The gallery as project-space opens up possibilities for activity and reflection, enabling the three artists to work in conversation with each other through screen, audio and projection technologies to generate new works which centre on urgent and timely concepts about what it means to be home. Home in these works may be imagined in terms of geographical location, of community or the unit, or in terms of the body, the shelter, or of the self. And as occupying the physical, the spatial, the temporal and the cultural realm.
This practice-led research project is conducted during a time of growing insecurities surrounding the personal and the political, identity and statelessness, shelter and hostility. To have a sense of belonging could be understood as gaining coherence in a community, or in the fraternal pact, or conversely could represent exclusion, exile or threat. Home explores themes of being and belonging, where to be-long is both being and longing, and may be desired as yet-to-come, as a return, as something made through lived practice, or as acts of multi-dimensional memory.
AT HOME IN MOSELEY ROAD BATHS - Directed by Paul Zinder and Kirsten Adkins
A poetic exploration in belonging which documents the architecture, soundscapes and movement of Victorian swimming baths in their daily active use. Observing the beauty of the structure and activities in the dry and wet spaces, the film imagines the baths, one full, the other empty, as central characters whose story is one of supporting and equally being supported by their community. Here a sense of home becomes something that changes and evolves with the people who move through their spaces.
