5ft x 7ft x 7ft Installation: Wood, Road Signs, Duck Tape, Posters, Newspapers, Magazines, Shopping Bags, Plastic, Linoleum, Doors, Wallpaper, Windows, Mirror, Nails, Table, Chair, Carpet, Nails, Clock, Toilet Seat, Radiator, Suitcases, Paint, Oil Pastel, Pencil.
In 'Haus Grüße Haus', I focus on my time spent living in Germany. I wanted to create a piece that reflected on some of the experiences that I had encountered myself, but also to try and create an almost theatrical piece invited the audience to step out of their own world and into a realm of mystery. I wanted to draw influence from artists such as Allan Kapprow with his installations and theatre; Jonathan Meese with his flamboyant works of painting, photography and performance and the multimedia works by Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller. This I intended to do by combining painting, architecture, sculpture and installation. I would build a home for myself in Germany, with furnishing, wallpaper, and decorations forming a relation to my home on the inside. The aim, to create a space of comfort and security for myself, escaping from the harsh realities laying in wait for me on the outside. The exterior would therefore purposefully be a contrast. It would be about Germany and everything that I associated with it, the language, the media, and how I struggled to understand any of it. The main aim was to communicate to the viewer all a sense of confusement and fear. A cage like structure helped to emphasise my sense of isolation. With the aim of relating to this, I attached and then manipulated various bits of German media and literature, which appeared like an enigma.
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