The Open Home Show 

3 collaborative projects by Rachel Pimm

The Open Home Show
A project by Rachel Pimm
At auto-italia south east

Private view Friday 26th 6-9pm
Open 27th September- 11th October
Saturday and Sunday 12-6pm or by appointment, call 07748505172
Glengall Ball Saturday 4th October, by invitation only

The Open Home Show is the staging of a collection of projects made in the simultaneously public and private live-work environment of Rachel Pimm at auto-italia south east.

Conversations that have occurred in the day to day of Rachel’s activities at auto-italia, have culminated organically in a proposal to permanently ‘re-name East Peckham,’ presented here as a text, and a request to hold a street party: The Glengall Ball, celebrating the work of local resident Marjorie Benson. These activities are presented together with a set of external trompe l’oeil billboards to coincide with the start and end of the project. At the opening, auto-italia will become a show-home in which to meet those collaborating on the projects and take or read a copy of the writing in which people with different takes on naming and different interests in the area have been invited by Rachel to help discuss what it means to name something and how and why it might be done.

This project seeks to explore the ways in which several separate communities sharing a geographic location might work together. The ethics of this methodology and the production of any outcome can at times be hard to pin down due to the individual approach necessary in collaborating with any existing network in their own terms and systems. At any time all 3 projects threaten to slip away and will only exist if involvement in the project is as worthwhile to the project as to all the individual participants.

Email rachel@autoitaliasoutheast.org for more details or images.
http://www.autoitaliasoutheast.org