The Homemade Culture Bubble – Jean-Lorin Sterian

Starting in 2012, I began to study artistic events taking place in domestic spaces. From the repeated contact between hosts-artists and audience in domestic settings, inclusive social spaces emerge which I call homemade culture bubbles. In this text, I posit that they constitute a subcultural solution (Cohen, 1955) through which people interact and associate with those who share the same maladjustment, in this case, to the conventions of the art world. Apart from events organized within totalitarian regimes, adjustment is not a negative, but a readjustment. Through homemade culture events, host-artists send a simple message to the art world: art can be made differently (without promotion, production, distribution, resources, critique, profit). I came to study this phenomenon after a long period as a host-artist of artistic events between 2008 and 2015. Homemade culture bubbles do not emerge in opposition to the art world, but in spite of it. Given that many of these aesthetic-domestic bubbles host artistic activity where the audience plays an important part, the spectator-guest accrues greater agency, which can then be used (or not used) in the social arena. This social performativity is often intentional in community-oriented and relational participative arts, which led me to understand homemade culture bubbles as one of the forms of interstice in interstitial revolutionary theory.Article by Jean-Lorin Sterian, illustrated by Andrea Nastac, read by Daniel Popahttps://theanthro.art/the-homemade-culture-bubble-jean-lorin-sterian-2/