Home time: temporalities of domestic life
29th August 2013, Queen Mary University, London.


Mycotopia was mentioned in Richard Baxter's paper ‘Home futures and home unmaking" :
" Artist Nadege Meriau’s Mycotopia was a deliberately incomplete sculpture, never finished but always becoming. A dwelling made of sandbags, it was home to oyster mushrooms that grew and decayed in the humidity controlled space of the Anarch gallery in Deptford. For Meriau the dwelling was nurturing and self consuming. It was a lived entity that, like the world, was relentlessly being made and unmade.
So home unmaking is an examination and critique of the phrase ‘home-making’(.....)
Home is made, but it is also unmade. The unmaking element is simply the reversal of some dimension of home that had been previously made. If examples of home-making are putting up wallpaper and generating feelings of home, then the home unmaking equivalents are the stripping of wallpaper and dissolving feelings of home. Like Nadege Meriau’s Mycoptopia, home involves both addition and subtraction; home making and unmaking practices"