This new commission by Culture& and Museum of the Home is part of The Unhomely, a public programme co-produced by Culture& that examines how histories of migration, displacement, belonging, and Identity shape personal and collective understandings of home. Funded by Arts Council England.
Through art exhibitions, interventions, events, and creative research, the programme seeks to create a space where artists, curators, and communities can explore what it means to live between worlds where the familiar becomes strange, and the past continues to echo within the present.
The Unhomely draws on psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud’s concept of the uncanny and the notion of hauntology, the ghostly return of historical events. At it’s core, the programme asks:
What happens when something once familiar becomes strange?
How is the idea of “home” unsettled through migration, climate crisis, inherited memory and cultural displacement?
About Güler Ates
Güler Ates works with Video, Photography, Printmaking, Sound Art and Performance. At the heart of her work lies an exploration into the experience of cultural displacement. Manifestations of Ates’s work are realised through performance and site-responsive activities that merge Eastern and Western sensibilities.
The architectural sites that Ates works within are of a particular era with specific links to colonialism, now post-colonialism, and the ‘East’, and she finds that they are interesting to work in, in their own right. Ates conducts research into the history of these sites, which informs the source of the fabric that becomes a costume or veil for her performing model to wear. As part of the performance, the subject tells a story drawn from the history of the site, exploring her feeling of cultural duality.
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About Culture&
Culture& Arts and Heritage is an independent arts and education charity formed in 1988 and based in London. Formerly known as Cultural Co-operation, we work in partnership with arts and heritage institutions and artists to develop programmes that promote diversity in the workforce and expand audiences. We aim to open up the arts and heritage sectors through workforce initiatives and public programmes.
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