HOME IS WHERE IT HURTS

Home Is Where It Hurts was a multimedia, site-specific performance exploring the housing crisis for artists at a time when many were facing eviction from their studios in Hackney Wick, East London, and North London.

The work addressed the ongoing effects of capitalist and neoliberal urban strategies that enforce precarity on artists: making areas unaffordable while simultaneously marketing them as “vibrant artistic communities.” At the time of the performance, luxury flats were rapidly rising across Hackney Wick, devastating the local creative ecosystem.

A short film of the work (now unfortunately lost) was made on a Hackney Wick development site, and a multimedia performance was later presented in collaboration with the street artist & sculpture Jay at the We Are the Wick exhibition in Hackney Wick, London (2017). In this performance, Jay built a temporary shelter around my body as I lay in a foetal position, while the audience listened through headphones to the amplified sound of my breath.

Credits

_Emilie Largier (CONCEPT & PERFORMER)

_Jay (STREET SCULPTURE ARTIST)

_Ellen Maioran (FILM MAKER & EDITOR)

A special thanks to my dear friend Cathryn Miles Griffiths who curated We are the Wick and who always pushed me in making art. She has since passed away and will never be forgotten.

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