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| Home is a personal and
yet universal concept. Whether it is a building, a community, a
group of people or a country, the idea of home connects all of
us. But home can also provoke feelings of loss, nostalgia, homesickness,
and isolation. In an age of international travel and intercontinental
trade, leaving home has become more common and even expected in
many communities. The lessons in this topic explore feelings of
community, commonality, and belonging to a home; as well as dislocation,
distance and isolation from the idea of home in today’s increasingly
global, migratory society. Students will draw upon their own communities
for inspiration in each lesson. |
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understanding home
Subject Area: Language Arts
Artists: Marshall,
Osorio, Suh, Zittel
By creating an oral and written history of their home, this lesson
will give students the opportunity to explore the idea of home with
family
and friends from their community. Students will look at the work of a
diverse range of contemporary artists who suggest different perspectives
about the feelings, appearance, memories, and organization of home.
The
concept of home will be explored as a physical place and as a set of
dynamic relationships between people. |
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migrating viewpoints
Subject Area: Social Studies
Artists: Orozco, Osorio,
Sikander, Suh, Walker
In an age of global travel and migration, many people identify themselves
with multiple cultures, cities, or a diaspora of individuals. The city
where a person is born is distinct from those that they travel to later
in life or those that represent the distinct cultural identities of their
family. This lesson will have students explore the concepts of assimilation,
hybridization, translation, and cultural borrowing. |
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model homes
Subject Area: Visual & Performng Arts
Artists: Osorio, Suh, Zittel
This lesson uses the architectural model as a means of exploring how a
home can serve as a metaphor to describe the identity of its inhabitants.
Students will look at artists who have used the structure of a house to
describe their own histories, personalities, and aspirations. Students
are asked to imagine their dream home, explore a makeshift or temporary
home to meet a particular loss or desire, and consider homes as they
exist in urban, suburban, and rural areas. |
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“At
some point in your life you have to leave your home. And whenever
you go back, it's just not the same anymore. So I think it's
something that you carry along with your life.”
— Do-Ho
Suh
“....I was very embarrassed about
coming from there, and I tried to change my accent, which is very
much Southern California mall girl. People talk about my work a lot
as having to do with these European, Modernist ideals, but in reality,
what I'm interested in is how I grew up in this very generic, very
capitalist culture, and how the values that are instilled in me relate
to these very utopian thoughts at the beginning of the century.”
— Andrea
Zittel
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