How is the idea of “home” unsettled through migration, climate crisis, inherited memory and cultural displacement?
Wednesday 22 April
6.30pm – 8.30pm
Join Dr Errol Francis, Director of Culture&, in conversation with artists Güler Ates, in collaboration with Leyla Huysal and Yusuf Huysal, to explore their new sound installation In Perpetuum installed amidst the Museum’s period rooms.
In Perpetuum is a four‑channel, site-responsive sound installation with no beginning or end. Layers of choral music dissolve in and out of harmony to create an ambiguously contemplative space where estrangement, memory and presence can be felt collectively, amidst the Museum’s period rooms.
The event will begin with a collective listening of the work, followed by a discussion exploring how this new commission engages with The Unhomely – a concept from Sigmund Freud’s 1919 essay das Unheimlich. Often translated as “the unhomely” or “the uncanny”, the idea describes the unsettling feeling of being alien or out of place within a familiar setting.
In Perpetuum is new commission by Culture& and Museum of the Home is part of The Unhomely, a public programme co-produced by Culture& that examines how histories of migration, displacement, belonging, and Identity shape personal and collective understandings of home. Funded by Arts Council England.
Through art exhibitions, interventions, events, and creative research, the programme seeks to create a space where artists, curators, and communities can explore what it means to live between worlds where the familiar becomes strange, and the past continues to echo within the present.
The Unhomely draws on psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud’s concept of the uncanny and the notion of hauntology, the ghostly return of historical events. At it’s core, the programme asks:
What happens when something once familiar becomes strange?
How is the idea of “home” unsettled through migration, climate crisis, inherited memory and cultural displacement?