Mundane Appreciation Everyday Life Enthusiasts
Mundane Appreciation Week
By Kayla Bell and Claudia Figueiredo
Mundane Appreciation Week is a 7-day project combining installation, performance, audio and audience participation. Mundane Appreciation sets up a display stand and activity centre in different locations, to explore and celebrate everyday life. Visitors are invited to discuss their everyday methodology with on-site representatives and take part in a number of activities such as writing to-do lists, transcribing telephone messages, peeling vegetables, changing electrical plugs, folding clothes, organising clutter, and filling in questionnaires.
As part of the exhibition, a comical audio installation was installed in the toilet facilities where members of the public were heard speaking about day-to-day life including how they change their bedsheets, go round the supermarket, and dry their laundry.
Mundane Appreciation Week, Mum, Dad, I’m An Artist! Oxford Brookes Fine Art Degree Show, Richard Hamilton Building, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, 2007.
Mundane Appreciation Week Two, The Affordable Art Fair: Autumn Collection, Battersea Park, London, October 2007.
