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Hey jetsetters! Be sure to check out “Forever’s Just A Word” - the latest single from Bianca Jane, streaming now on Soundcloud! Its a great summer jam coming all the way out of Australia and I’m pretty obsessed with the intro... You can just hear the pixels!

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Table #47

Jill Horder

Sydney, Australia

"I kept the cup as a symbol that she would return to me alas, that was never meant to be. Her little bit of her I reluctantly return." 

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The Project

This is the project

This work explores the kitchen table as a site of communication and knowledge. As a child, it represented a time to learn, tell stories of the day, and converse with adults. Living in Berlin apartments for two years, the kitchen table – usually the only common area – had a new and acute relevance placed upon it. When searching for apartments, or tenants, it was custom to sit and talk over a cup of tea before making any decisions. After these conversations, and others around the table, the detritus left behind fascinated me. Conversations became physically embodied by the relics left upon the table. Likewise, Rirkrit Tiravanija’s dinner relics encapsulate this feeling of memory, “It is not what you see that is important but what takes place between people.” In perceived modern times, the kitchen table as a place of connection is becoming rapidly less important. Children are given technology to distract them at a dinner party, at home they watch T.V, and constantly busier lifestyles can result in families no longer eating together. The kitchen table’s purpose can no longer be counted upon as place of engagement between families, ultimately becoming a transient object; merely a flat surface for items we hastily place down. These items build up, with the table surface sometimes disappearing altogether. I will ask friends to take a photo of an item which may live on their kitchen table without purpose. They will then post the object, and the photo will be documented in an index book. The items and book will then be placed on my kitchen table to represent our exchange. The objects will manifest into a shared ideal of connectedness and ongoing conversation. This emphasis of debris from our shared existence will evolve into physical memories, honouring the importance of the kitchen table.

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Today I made a felt house. I left a secret note inside before sewing it up...

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'Theramin' illustration for icrates, 2012

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'Procrastinating...', Pen on Paper, 2012