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  Imagine a House - investigating narratives of domesticity
   
 

Video (low res video here) 14min.
2007
  Taking the emergence of the bourgeois interiors in the 19th century and its image-based
  condition as a starting point, this video looks into the making of the modern home during
  the early days of British industrialisation. An empty house in East London is the scene.
  A story of Victorian domesticity is played out in the house where fallen women are
  trained in the art of homemaking and working class men are taught political consciousness.
  By dissolving the distinction between building and storytelling Imagine a House presents an act
 

of rebuilding, where the story told by each repetition slowly transforms the abandoned house. 
  In making this video it has become clear how many of the assumptions that
 

inform residential building to this day have their ideological and culturally
  gendered roots in the Victorian concepts of privacy and respectability.  
 
 
 

Exhibited at Arkitekturmuseet, Stockholm, March - September 2007.x