The Homebodies Conference takes place at Birkbeck College on 9th and 10th November. The conference has been organised by students from the London Consortium and the School of Art History, Film and Visual Media at Birkbeck.

HomeBodies is about complex situations of not feeling-at-home. International artists, curators, and architects are contributing to this process-oriented project to reconfigure the notion of ‘home’. Starting with a conference, the results of productive exchanges will determine how the project further develops into 3 basement exhibitions in San Francisco, Frankfurt am Main, and London. On the first day of the conference, thinkers such as Frederick J. Kiesler and Gaston Bachelard will be revisited in the light of discourses surrounding ‘the home’. On the following day, meanings will be made through dialogue with curators and visual and performing artists about what it means to be ‘at-home’.

FRIDAY | 09 November | Body in the Home
Room B036 Birkbeck building Malet Street WC1

3-5pm| Presentations
Shumon Basar, Writer / Curator / Lecturer
B. A. Irawati Firth, London Consortium
Ida Wentzel Winther, Department of Educational Anthropology, Danish School of Education, Copenhagen

7-9pm| Film screening
Centre for Film and Visual Media, 43 Gordon Square WC1
‘The Secret Beyond the Door’ (1948), 99 minutes, Fritz Lang
Teresa Gilepse, ‘On Gordon Street’ (Installation), 2007

SATURDAY | 10 November | Home in the Body
Room B035 Birkbeck building Malet Street WC1

11am-6pm | Presentations
Hans Ulrich Obrist, Co-director of Exhibitions and Programmes and Director of International Projects, Serpentine Gallery
Marko Daniel, Curator Public Programmes, Tate Modern
Linda Gieres, Dancer / Choreographer, London Consortium
Aura Satz, Artist / Writer, London Consortium

To find out more and to register go to:
http://www.annabelleshome.eu/