In Perpetuum is 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 Dr. Errol Francis
Dr Errol Francis is artistic director and CEO of Culture&. Errol studied photography and fine art at Central Saint Martin’s, University of the Arts London. His doctoral research at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London focused on postcolonial artistic responses to museums.
Errol’s background in mental health activism has influenced his arts practice such as his role as head of arts at the Mental Health Foundation and his directing of the Anxiety Arts Festival 2014, Cyborgs 2019 and his work in the curatorial research group PS/Y. More recently Errol has been commissioned by the charity Hospital Rooms to make a new site-specific work of art in collaboration with patients in an NHS mental healthcare unit.
Errol was content producer for the Culture Box research project at the University of Exeter which promoted social interaction and public health through the arts in the time of Covid-19 for people living with dementia in care homes. He is visiting lecturer at the University of Greenwich, Goldsmith’s University of London and Sotheby’s Institute of Art.
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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In Perpetuum
A site-responsive soundscape from artist Güler Ates, exploring presence, memory and active listening.
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