Oral History Project: My Drying Life

How to Understand

• Read the information on the art-piece at (http://www.architecture.uq.edu.au/node/771)
• Points from this explanation have been summarised

How to interact with the Art-piece?

• Hand Operated
• Slides will automatically cycle periodically or as clothes hoist handle is turned backwards or forwards

What is the Art-piece?

• Interactive Installation
• Slide viewer of photographs and quotes
• Audio quotes from interviewees; spoken in robotic voice for anonymity and consistency
• "Reveals playful drying rules and rituals" within their own constraints

What is the effect Art-piece?

• Compelling to hear funny/sad/poetic associations and memories

Themes within Artpiece

• Place
• Architecture
• Queensland
• Aesthetic
• Memory
• Technology
• Atmosphere

'Dirty/Clean Laundry'

• Dirty - Metaphor for "things best kept private"
• Clean - "Potential for public display", domestic order: propiety, decency, cleanliness, civilisation

Visits Alternatives in Laundry

• Sustainability, climate-responsiveness, human/nature relationships, gendered labour, domestic dwelling, aesthetics of everyday

References

• The University of Queensland, (n.d.). Oral History Project: My Drying Life. Retrieved May 8, 2015, from http://www.architecture.uq.edu.au/node/771