I went to the Walk The House exhibition at the Tate over the weekend, I was down in London from Wales to watch my boyfriend in a foosball tournament. I took the slow morning build up as an opportunity to take some library books back in the new secret sunday CSM lift. I have a few new books to read that I’m not sure I’m going to actually cite in my paper directly but will include in the bibliography? Going to ask this question in my supervisor meeting.

I took back ‘Agony of Eros’ and ‘The disappearance of Rituals’ because I have the PDF copies on my laptop anyway, but it was nice to have the physical copies for a bit. I’ve also since bought a hard copy of ‘The Disappearance of Rituals’…

In place of them I took out ‘Post Europe’ and ‘Recursivity and Contingency’ by Yuk Hui and ‘Non- Things’ by Byung Chul Han which goes more into depth about how alot of the ‘things’ we are interacting with now are not actually there. For instance communication thorough digital spaces without community. No physical tracking of memories etc.

They also had DO HO SUHs reading list books for sale in the gift shop and one of them was ‘Non-Places- An Introduction to Super Modernity’ by Marc Auge that I bought. Which is speaking more on liminal space, spaces with no culture and no community. One of the spaces he uses as an example in the synopsis is the hospital. Which made me immediately realise that I had cultivated community and creativity within a liminal space and why that period of my life had felt so strange.

Here are some photos I took of the exhibit. My favourite piece was actually a video of moving through his old home, the transitions investigating the mundanity but familiarity of home and spaces we call home.