Mobile cottage industry by Yoke and Zoom, 2008.
Yoke and Zoom are artists in residence at the New Art Gallery, Walsall. Between the dates of April 14th and July 15th 2008.
During the residency at New Art Gallery, Walsall. Yoke and Zoom will produce Mobile Cottage Industry. This will take the form of the production of a small mobile cottage in the gallery foyer.
Yoke and Zoom will re-appropriate a 1957, 2 berth caravan bought on ebay, to create a black and white thatched cottage. The caravan, currently known as known as Penguin Cottage has travelled extensively throughout Europe with its previous owners.
We will add new features onto the exterior, including: removable thatch for the roof and permanent faux timber exterior beams. We will also make minor alterations to the interior. These add-ons will complement the caravan's original leaded windows, and transform penguin cottage into a genuine mock tudor idyll.
After the residency this mobile English cottage is ready to move to any location. Having the potential to park virtually anywhere and to be moved through many environments, the artwork becomes a mutable, recreational space and a provider of shelter.
Is the stability of the ideal home threatened by the possibility for sudden movement, or does this provide an example of a micro-utopian living situation that could be duplicated?
Simultaneously at home and away, the cottage questions the politics of home ownership, making its home in public space, both in rural and urban environments.
The cottage will be parked in the gallery foyer in anticipation of future touring.
Yoke and Zoom are artists in residence at the New Art Gallery, Walsall. Between the dates of April 14th and July 15th 2008.
During the residency at New Art Gallery, Walsall. Yoke and Zoom will produce Mobile Cottage Industry. This will take the form of the production of a small mobile cottage in the gallery foyer.
Yoke and Zoom will re-appropriate a 1957, 2 berth caravan bought on ebay, to create a black and white thatched cottage. The caravan, currently known as known as Penguin Cottage has travelled extensively throughout Europe with its previous owners.
We will add new features onto the exterior, including: removable thatch for the roof and permanent faux timber exterior beams. We will also make minor alterations to the interior. These add-ons will complement the caravan's original leaded windows, and transform penguin cottage into a genuine mock tudor idyll.
After the residency this mobile English cottage is ready to move to any location. Having the potential to park virtually anywhere and to be moved through many environments, the artwork becomes a mutable, recreational space and a provider of shelter.
Is the stability of the ideal home threatened by the possibility for sudden movement, or does this provide an example of a micro-utopian living situation that could be duplicated?
Simultaneously at home and away, the cottage questions the politics of home ownership, making its home in public space, both in rural and urban environments.
The cottage will be parked in the gallery foyer in anticipation of future touring.
During the residency we will be converting our 1957 Penguin caravan into a mock Tudor idyll.This is the cottage as it was, we have begun the residency period by re-painting the cottage.
Day 1. 14th April
We were on foot today- so we researched Tudor architecture in our local library.
Day 2. 15th April.
Our first day in Walsall,we were settled into our studio- this is such luxury, give keys, shown the facilities. Alex reads up on his Tudorism on the black leather sofa!
Really into the whole mock thing- thinking of lyrics to put to it:
We will We will Mock you.
We're gonna mock you.
Thinking on how to build the thatch onto the caravan, and whether to use plastic fake thatch or real thatch mats. We can't move penguin cottage into the gallery yet because the weather was bad and we ran out of coach paint. Waiting for a new order to arrive to get it painted and for the weather to clear up.
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