In-Habit is a participatory project by artists Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan considering the idea of ‘place’ through presenting an evolving installation that engages notions of journey and diaspora; settlement and resettlement; home and land; plight and displacement.
In-Habit: Project Another Country is a Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation commissioned project, toured by Museums & Galleries NSW. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.
For the exhibition project In-Habit: Project Another Country, internationally known husband-and-wife team Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan present an evolving installation that engages notions of journey and diaspora; settlement and resettlement; home and land; plight and displacement. Originally commissioned last year by Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF), the project relies on visitor participation.
In a series of workshops, members of the community are invited to construct small houses using recycled cardboard boxes and tape. Installed on scaffolding, the houses will contribute to a growing community of buildings, resembling a sprawling construction site in a constant state of transition. The installation of cardboard dwellings references Southeast Asia’s makeshift Badjao houses on stilts. Throughout the exhibition, this collaborative cardboard ‘city’ will continue to develop, embodying a multitude of real and imagined personal and communal stories.
Image: Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan, In-Habit: Project Another Country (detail) 2012, used transport cardboard boxes, packing tape, handcrafted cardboard houses, makeshift drums and sound, single channel video projection plus 5 LCD screen installation.
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