Coming home, becoming home: making stories and art as inquiry

Description

Home is often spoken of as singular and as a noun, as are its clichés. ‘Home is where the heart is.’ ‘Home sweet home.’ Home is a place, a somewhere. We move home. Leave home. Return home. Or don’t, the politics ever present. Yet home might be multiple, fluid, transient, provisional, a process; a verb. Neither one, thing nor another, a state of mind. A constant simultaneous making and re-making, dismantling and re-building, even as we might feel ‘settled’ and ‘at home’. A persistent state of being in the threshold, of being in-between.

In this lecture we will work through stories and art that draw from our experience of and since moving to Scotland, to inquire into notions of ‘home’. We entwine (and perhaps trouble) the personal and the cultural, the internal and the external, the material and the affective, in order to bring alive the complexities of what home might be(come).

Period	22 Oct 2018
Event title	Sutherland Trust Autumn Lecture
Event type	Other
Location	Edinburgh, United KingdomShow on map
Degree of Recognition	Regional