The home improvement store is a geological site on demand. Rockwool, Sheetrock, Quikrete. Materials are processed into products, packaged, stacked, and sold across global DIY supply-chains, from Home Depot to Bauhaus and OBI. Basalt, gypsum, limestone. Material economies are severed from mineral entanglements with millennia of rock, fossil, plant, and stone. It takes 1 day to install drywall; it takes 299 million years to form gypsum.
Winner of VI PER Gallery’s 2021 international open call, Planetary Home Improvement is a design and research project that takes stock of the terrestrial home via the big-box DIY home improvement store to examine the geological life of product accumulation, installation, and instruction through both physical and digital gallery artifacts.
As the home improvement industry continues to propagate rocks in anthropo-convenient forms, the exhibition asks: What planetary urgencies, temporalities and extractions undergird products of just-in-time geology?
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Winner of VI PER Gallery’s 2021 international open call, Planetary Home Improvement is a design and research project that takes stock of the terrestrial home via the big-box DIY home improvement store to examine the geological life of product accumulation, installation, and instruction through both physical and digital gallery artifacts.
As the home improvement industry continues to propagate rocks in anthropo-convenient forms, the exhibition asks: What planetary urgencies, temporalities and extractions undergird products of just-in-time geology?
Watch the How-To Video
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Planetary Home Improvement: From Just-in-Time to Geological Time
VI PER Gallery, Prague
Decebmer 2021 - January 2022
Design Team:Christine Giorgio, Amelyn Ng, Gabriel Vergara
Sound Design:
Nathan Davis
Student Assistants:
Sarah Chriss, Ellie Cody, Carrie Li, Wenyue (Remi) Qiu
For VI PER Gallery:
Irena Lehkoživová and Barbora Špičáková
Photos:
Zdeněk Porcal (Studio Flusser)
