︎THRXSOME comprises three research-intensive, collaborative, continuing, and intermingling projects that deal with sexuality and space – public space, private space, architectural space, temporary space and their many overlaps and in-betweens - in a queer, feminist & decolonial key.

THRXSOME PART 3 

DOMESTIC OPTIMISM


Domestic Optimism is about mangled and mistold modernist legacies. The project begins with furniture, inanimate objects that come loaded with social connections and invisible histories. Through the displacement of cultural detritus Domestic Optimism retells modernist architectural history in the collective key of queer, feminist and decolonial practices, continually unearthing filth in times of hygiene, and complicating things that were never simple to begin with.

Colonial aesthetics, obscenity trials, hysterical masculinity, crime scene photography, sexology, the production of the lesbian throughout modernity and the current collapse of social housing projects, all intersect in a critical, queer, working class reading of architectural and design modernism. The project underscores the importance of solidarity, friendship and collectivity, for our communion and survival in the world today. 

Supported by The Grazer Kunstverein, Project Arts Centre, Askeaton Contemporary Arts, Fingal Arts Office and The Arts Council of Ireland

#AUTOTHEORY #QUEER COLLECTIVITY #WORKING CLASS UTOPIAS #MALE HYSTERIA #CORBUSIER WAS A FASCIST #DOMESTIC DECADENCE #EILEEN GRAY’S FRIENDS & LOVERS #LESBIAN SCENIUS #MODERNISM COLONIALISM