The house shelters daydreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

– Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space

Homecoming is a publication launch and the final exhibition in ‘Hot Compost Home Tour’, a home-based touring series that has unfolded over several months in Naarm, culminating with a shared reading of a text by artist and writer Anna Dunnill.

Writing alongside the tour, Anna follows a quilt that travels to three different homes in turn, for a month each. Each leg of the home tour is curated by the home’s occupant, and carries a different expression of what a ‘home’ means and how a quilt might function within it. A house lived in continuously for thirty-seven years. A one-bedroom flat on a month-to-month lease. A space extending beyond the walls of the house into community gardens and schools.

Join us for a publication launch and shared reading with collaborators involved in the tour, hosted in Emily Simek’s rental unit. Each attendee will receive a limited edition zine.

• Sunday 1st December 2 - 4pm
• All welcome, RSVP essential
• 1/10 Holmes Street, Brunswick East

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Hot Compost Home Tour is an off-site exhibition series by Emily Simek in collaboration with Merri Cheyne, Anna Dunnill, Eric Jong, Mei Sun and Doug Webb. The home-based tour explores composting as an approach to exhibition practice. Using relational ethics as a framework, the project considers the conditions of the various exchanges that ‘create’ compost: how and where does it come to exist? How are different collaborators implicated? Instead of a purely material process, composting becomes about the work of relationships within systems of exchange.

This project is supported by a VCA50 Creative Development Grant, Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, University of Melbourne.