About Us

WHAT WE DO

Mundane Appreciation is an agency devoted to promoting, exploring and celebrating the processes of day-to-day life. Our visitors are encouraged to document and share their approaches and observations to daily life. We like to collect, interpret and display experiences of the everyday and turn them into books, radio shows, animations, illustrations, films, audio pieces and events.

Email info(at)mundaneappreciation.com to get involved in a Mundane Apprecaition project.

Mundane Appreciation was founded by artists Kayla Bell and Claudia Figueiredo in 2007, they were joined by Gareth Harwood in 2010.

WORKING WITH US

You can book Mundane Appreciation to:

• Make an animation
• Do a community based project
• Exhibit our work
• Do a public intervention
• Do a performance
• Make a film/documentary
• Make an audio installation or radio show
• Make a book
• Set up a stand at your event
• Hold an event
• Make a personal Mundane Appreciation portrait

If you have a specific idea that isn’t listed here, Mundane Appreciation are open to working within your specifications.

EXHIBITIONS AND COMMISSIONS

The Mundane Appreciation Radio Show, Radio Reverb, Brighton 2010.

The Fantastical Reality Radio Show, The Sonics Art Network for the Sonic Arts Expo, Brighton, July 2008.

Mundane Appreciation Week Two, The Affordable Art Fair: Autumn Collection, Battersea Park, London, October 2007.

Mundane Appreciation Week, Mum, Dad, I’m An Artist! Oxford Brookes Fine Art Degree Show, Richard Hamilton Building, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, 2007.

MISSION STATEMENT

Mundane Appreciation is an agency devoted to promoting the ordinary. In pur interactive, participatory and community based projects we use audio, installation, film, audience participation and performance to celebrate and explore fundamental processes of day-to-day living that are often taken for granted. Our work is inspired by the nature of modern conventions, human behavioral patterns and how mundane rituals shape our identities. Mundane Appreciation is dedicated to collecting, displaying and interpreting the habits and experiences of regular people in regular situations. The aim of our work is to document often unnoticed aspects of modern living and encourage people to consider and re-evaluate familiar aspects of their everyday lives as they are an important part of the changing social landscapes of our time.

Mundane Appreciation collects information in a number of ways. We may ask you to describe the contents under your sink in great detail or inventory the contents of your handbag.  Mundane Appreciation sets up installation events complete with activity and interview centres. We encourage visitors to draw pictures of their favourite chair or map out how they organize their wardrobes. We conduct interviews on the subjects of how individuals do their washing up and whether they prefer buttons to zips and why.

Mundane Appreciation leaves questionnaires, films, and activity books in public spaces relative to their topics for people to discover when going about their day-to-day lives. You might find a DVD about the the habits of UK grocery shoppers hidden behind your favourite cereal when you visit the supermarket. Women may discover an activity book specially designed for their bored boyfriends when they visit a clothing store changing room next. You might even find Mundane Appreciation roaming around the streets with a microphone asking you to describe how you brush your teeth or what you are using for your computer desktop image. The interactive aspects of the project offers a chance to bring people together, open up discourse and potentially spark an interest in the arts. Its accessible nature gives it a broad appeal, which allows a broad range of people to relate to their objectives.Mundane Appreciation displays and interprets collected information by turning them into comical, thought provoking animations, radio broadcasts, audio installations, books, and more.