The house shelters daydreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

– Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space

Homecoming is a publication launch and the final exhibition in ‘Hot Compost Home Tour’, a home-based touring series that has unfolded over several months in Naarm, culminating with a shared reading of a text by artist and writer Anna Dunnill.

Writing alongside the tour, Anna follows a quilt that travels to three different homes in turn, for a month each. Each leg of the home tour is curated by the home’s occupant, and carries a different expression of what a ‘home’ means and how a quilt might function within it. A house lived in continuously for thirty-seven years. A one-bedroom flat on a precarious lease. A space extending beyond the walls of the house into community gardens, schools, and the soil we share with numerous small creatures.

Join us for a publication launch and shared reading with collaborators involved in the tour, hosted in Emily Simek’s rental unit. Each attendee will receive a limited edition zine. All welcome, RSVP essential.

When: Sunday 1st December 2 - 4pm

Where: 1/10 Holmes Street, Brunswick East

This event is held on the lands of the Wurundjeri people, and we pay respect to their Elders, past, present and emerging, and acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded.

Access: The event is held in a single story unit with one step access into the front and rear entrances. There is a shared bathroom with a toilet and no hand rail. A quiet space can be made available. There is a small paved outdoor area enclosed by a fence at the front of the unit that is next to a busy road. Children are welcome, it is a small unit so unfortunately there is limited space to spread out to play. Assistance animals are welcome. Please get in touch to discuss any access needs.

Transport: Tram lines #1/6, all day street parking on Sunday

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Hot Compost Home Tour is an off-site exhibition series by Emily Simek in collaboration with Merri Cheyne, Anna Dunnill, Eric Jong, Mei Sun and Doug Webb. The home-based tour explores composting as an approach to exhibition practice. Using relational ethics as a framework, the project considers the conditions of the various exchanges that ‘create’ compost: how and where does it come to exist? How are different collaborators implicated? Instead of a purely material process, composting becomes about the work of relationships within systems of exchange.

This project is produced with Seventh Gallery, and supported by a VCA50 Creative Development Grant, Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, University of Melbourne.