From Homemade Culture to E-Homemade Culture

• Main Author: Jean-Lorin STERIAN
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Ovidius University Press 2021-02-01
• Series: Annals of the "Ovidius" University of Constanţa. Political Science Series
• Subjects: artivism; audience; guest; homemade culture; host; relational art
• Online Access: http://annals-politics.univ-ovidius.ro/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/2.-AUOC-PolSci-Vol.-9-2020-27-66-Sterian.pdf

Homemade culture is what is born from the interaction between art and home, between artists, hosts and audience, the living product generated in and by the domestic space. The personal dwellings are used as exhibition or performative spaces by the young curators who do not own any gallery or artists who are not willing to align esthetically and politically to the mainstream culture. Although neither financial, nor (intense) self-promotional purposes are pursued, they use their personal space in order to get noticed or just to make their art to a close circle of people who share the same values. The domestic space feature has a decisive influence on the structure, frequency, type of public and, of course, the content of the event. The homemade culture activities are directly dependent on the drive, the aims, the energy fluctuations of the hosts. I became interested in this topic because in December 2008, I opened an apartment theater in my own home. In 2010, I started studying similar initiatives around the world. I set out to highlight and describe these manifestations in order to reveal the existence of a sociocultural phenomenon not yet studied.