Hot Compost Home Tour by Emily Simek + Doug Webb

Hot Compost Home Tour is an upcoming home-based touring exhibition curated by artists and gardeners living in Naarm. Guided by practices in community gardening, the home-based tour uses composting as an approach to exhibition practice, exploring how composting can shape the way we encounter art within community networks.

In this pre-tour workshop, join Emily Simek and Doug Webb to make DIY tour merch. Participants are invited to bring an old t-shirt and screen print a collaborative tour t-shirt design. The workshop explores self-publishing in support of alternative exhibition practices.

Please BYO adult or child sized t-shirt, tote bag, pillowcase or up-cycled garment to screen print onto. All ages and abilities are welcome including children accompanied by an adult.

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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.