ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates the ways in which artists enquire into domestic dwellings as part of their arts practice. In Leave Home Stay (2007–2013), Christine Finn created a series of installations and performances in a Victorian house in Deal, Kent (UK) that she inherited after the death of her parents. In Leave Home Stay, Finn conducted and presented an archaeological survey of the house, followed by subsequent events through which she questioned whether to remain living in or leave this house and what it was to have a home at all. In One Hundred Homes, Yinka Kuitenbrouwer visited over a hundred people in their homes, took a photograph of each person in their home, and asked them about their home. Kuitenbrouwer performed findings from this process in venues including houses, a wooden cabin and a community pub. The chapter considers how Kuitenbrouwer and Finn enquired into home – whether their own home or the homes of others, their discoveries and reflections on each enquiry. It frames situated artistic enquiry as a means of engaging in, reflecting on and thereby practising domestic dwellings and, more broadly, architecture.
