curating the normal

--rethinking habitus -- an archive of archives and of everyday inhabitation

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Muji’s new ‘tiny home’ will go on sale this autumn in Japan

Priced at $27,000...

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--mirror mirror--

This mirror is not visible when you enter the room. A nice surprise happens as soon as you decide to perform your everyday need.

This amazing condition of seeing yourself practising the -usually hidden- everyday actions happened in the bathroom of Bensousan Han.[https://www.facebook.com/Bensousan-Han-Μπενσουσάν-Χαν-1477654709180404/] 

[Thank you Stelio Dokouz for allowing me to photograph myself there! ]

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"To me, those people I’ve known are like a series of rooms,just like all the places where I’ve spent time.You walk in for the first time curious about this new room — the lamp, TV, whatever.And then, after a while,the newness is gone,completely.And then there’s this kind of dread,kind of creeping dread.You probably don’t even know what I’m talking about.But anyway I guess the point of all this is that after a while, something tells you,some voice speaks to you,and that’s it. Time to split.Go someplace else." Allie, Permanent Vacation [by  Jim Jarmusch ]

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Sigur Rós - Ekki múkk [Official Music Video]

sigur ros valtari film experiment - a collection of 16 short films made for the valtari album. out now on dvd, blu-ray & download here: http://smarturl.it/si...

what is home? how do I get there?

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To live is to leave traces_Walter Benjamin

In the interior these are emphasised. An abundance of covers and protectors, liners and cases is devised, on which the traces of objects of everyday use are imprinted. The traces of the occupant also leave their impression on the interior. The detective story that follows these traces comes into being. [...]The criminals of the first detective noverls are neither gentlemen nor apaches, but private members of the bourgeoisie. [Walter Benjamin Paris, Capital of the Nineteenth Century ]

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Italy: The New Domestic Landscape | MoMA

Exhibition. May 26–September 11, 1972.

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Les chambres où j'ai dormi

influenced by my professor's collection of rooms (Aristides Antonas: www.flickr.com/photos/antonas/with/14774458135/) I decided to curate and publish the rooms/places I sleep and inhabit.

For the past 2 years I keep an archive of the rooms I sleep.

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Abitacolo_1971

Bruno Munari

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"Η ζωή στο δάσος" στο δάσος.

Inhabiting the woods.

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How to inhabit the non habitable_vol ll

-in a greek forest- 

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How to Isolate Yourself and Inhabit Everywhere: Absalon’s Living...

The inhabitation cells ("Cellules d'habitation") are six living pods for a single person designed by Israeli-born artist Absalon. After leaving his home country in the late 1980s, the artist joined Paris where he started a (sadly) short but intense career as a sculptor. The "cellules" are his...

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Mary Oliver on How Habit Gives Shape to Our Inner Lives

“The patterns of our lives reveal us. Our habits measure us.”

on habits.

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Update, April 8, 2016: Those intrigued by this cabin may be interested in the discovery of a second cabin, possibly created by the same individual. Read about it here. – Ed. Kevin L. Hoover Mad Riv…