Artist: Kaspar Wimberley
A walk around the perimeters of my ‘Homezone’, an area in which I can make cheaper telephone calls, defined by mobile telephone networks and based on my residential address.
On the course of this journey I have documented what lies directly outside and inside my Homezone, the familiarities and the foreign. I have collected objects, thoughts and images from the people and the places that are encroaching into my territory, or sitting on my doorstep, piecing together a potentially irrational narrative that documents this journey and the way in which we perceive our neighbouring environments; The experience of site as a site of perception.
At times I have been letting the site interfere and inform my own perceptions, at other times I have interfered with the site, initiating a series of interactive interventions that have taken place along this invisible boundary. I have asked pedestrians entering my Homezone if they would like a cup of tea, to take their shoes off or brush their feet on a doormat, I have physically marked out the perimeters of my territory onto the streets and through public spaces using chalked texts or a variety of scents
Homezone has been presented in Stuttgart, at the ISEA 2010 conference in Dortmund, Germany, the Hidden City Festival symposium in Plymouth, England, and the ARENA Festival in Erlangen, Germany.
Archive of documentation
ARENA Festival – Rubbing a circle of scent – Documentation/Report
ARENA Festival – Documentation/Report
ARENA Festival – Rubbing a circle of scent – Review
Stuttgart – Einbürgerungstest – Documentation
Hidden Cities Symposium in Plymouth – Invitation
Stuttgart – A collection of guests and hosts and people who aren’t sure
Stuttgart – Circular observations
Homezone – “unless you are an astronaut” – Texts in development
