At home with doors

I distinctly remember arriving home from my first term at university. ¹ Having been cooped-up in a ‘study bedroom’ as autumn became winter, I remember being astonished by the experience of returning home for Christmas, of family opening the front door, and light, warmth and welcome spilling out into the night. The moment was a critical stage in that formative first journey home, in which I took in the world inside the home from outside. In the last couple of years, Matt and I have become fascinated by the ways in which artists practise doors, primarily doors in houses and homes. In this chapter, I consider two projects in which doors were critical elements, to begin to question the significance of doors in installation and performance.