The photographs in House Rules present participatory acts and events that unfolded over a fixed period of time in a family home. All images adhere to the parameters that they must have been made in this home, during the five year period of occupation and must be representations of real-life, unstaged occurrences.
The resulting series illustrates the experience of shared living in a family context. Events of work, learning, creativity and play form a collaborative lexicon here, with various themes recurring over time. The ownership of these events are left without demarcation; hinting at the question of whether the domestic can be considered an arena for the collaborative making of meaning and performative co-action.
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Published by PhotoIreland
Edition of 200
Softcover
36 pages
148 × 210 mm
