Make Yourself At Home
Multimedia anthology, digital
2020
Make Yourself at Home is an online time-capsule of 2020 – an interactive experience where audiences explore the rooms and perspectives of the Makers Space artists in quarantine.
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Make Yourself At Home combined 360 degree photography, video, audio, and a host of online services to recreate the experiences and emotions of the Maker Space artists in quarantine. Led by Project Faciliator and Producer, Elias Nohra, the Maker Space artist collective comprised of Nicole Pingon, Shawn Spina, Thomas Barrell, Kris Savic, Miranda Aguilar, Zoe Tomaras, Jessica Phoebe Hanna, Ailsa Liu, Adam McPhilbin, Liliana Occhiuto, Huy Nguyen & Bradley Lee.
In April 2020, the Makers Space artists began meeting virtually to work on what would become Make Yourself At Home. They dropped 360 cameras to one another’s mailboxes, had long D&M’s over Zoom and other online chats, and shared their experiences with quarantine, social isolation and general 2020-ness through the process of this work.
For example, Miranda Aguilar's interactive quiz Am I a gender or a bag of meat? is based on their experiences dealing with mental health and gender identity during quarantine. It was inspired by the personality quizzes in teen girl magazines, and the way they’re often parodied on sites like Reductress or Clickhole.
Furthermore, Make Yourself At Home invites audiences to consider their own socially distanced experiences and ask questions like:
What do our bedrooms say about us?
What does your house become when it’s the only place you can be?
Did people collect pop vinyls during the Spanish Flu?
CREDITS
Make Yourself At Home was assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia (fka Australia Council for the Arts), its arts funding and advisory body and the NSW Government through Create NSW.
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