Dream home hotline
Dream Home Hotline is broadcast as a radio performance on:
Currents and Waves Radio, every Thursday at 10:46am and 11:32pm.
Currents and Waves Radio, every Thursday at 10:46am and 11:32pm.
Occurring as part of The Blue Cabin Floating Artist Residency, Dream Home Hotline is part of a growing body of work exploring yearning for a sense of home in the context of widespread housing instability.
This project was sparked by a conversation with a friend, another young artist who is struggling to find affordable housing and studio space in Vancouver. She told me that she didn’t even want to dream about her “dream home,” as it seems so impossible to attain that thinking about it makes her feel hopeless. This exchange caused me to wonder: what would happen if we allowed ourselves to dream of a joyful sense of home, even in hopeless circumstances? What is risked and what is gained through this dreaming? And what would those dreams of home look like? Dream Home Hotline is an attempt to explore these questions. The project’s tension between hope and hopelessness reflects my own ambivalence, both wanting to believe and doubting that I will ever have a home that feels like home.
This project was sparked by a conversation with a friend, another young artist who is struggling to find affordable housing and studio space in Vancouver. She told me that she didn’t even want to dream about her “dream home,” as it seems so impossible to attain that thinking about it makes her feel hopeless. This exchange caused me to wonder: what would happen if we allowed ourselves to dream of a joyful sense of home, even in hopeless circumstances? What is risked and what is gained through this dreaming? And what would those dreams of home look like? Dream Home Hotline is an attempt to explore these questions. The project’s tension between hope and hopelessness reflects my own ambivalence, both wanting to believe and doubting that I will ever have a home that feels like home.