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FROM HOMEMADE CULTURE TO e-HOMEMADE CULTURE
FROM HOMEMADE CULTURE TO e-HOMEMADE CULTURE

Author(s): Jean-Lorin Sterian
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Anthropology, Political Sciences, Sociology, Politics and Identity, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Ovidius University Press
Keywords: artivism; audience; guest; homemade culture; host; relational art; resilience;

Summary/Abstract: Homemade culture is what is born from the interaction between art and home, between artists, hosts and audience, the living product generated in and by the domestic space. The personal dwellings are used as exhibition or performative spaces by the young curators who do not own any gallery or artists who are not willing to align esthetically and politically to the mainstream culture. Although neither financial, nor (intense) self-promotional purposes are pursued, they use their personal space in order to get noticed or just to make their art to a close circle of people who share the same values. The domestic space feature has a decisive influence on the structure, frequency, type of public and, of course, the content of the event. The homemade culture activities are directly dependent on the drive, the aims, the energy fluctuations of the hosts. I became interested in this topic because in December 2008, I opened an apartment theater in my own home. In 2010, I started studying similar initiatives around the world. I set out to highlight and describe these manifestations in order to reveal the existence of a socio-cultural phenomenon not yet studied.

  • Issue Year: 9/2020
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 27-66
  • Page Count: 40
  • Language: English