FRITZ HAEG'S 'SCHOOL OF QUEER HOME ECONOMICS' AT HAYWARD GALLERY AND 'LESSONS ON HOMO ENTERTAINING' BY DAVID AND PABLO

The Geodesic dome under construction at Hayward, getting ready to host Fritz Haeg's School of Queer Economics








cardboard box announcing Homo Entertaining


Peter's Homo Sweet Homo sign


the Queer Home Economics School Library


David having a cup of tea before preparing his fountain


the pineapple tequila margarita fountain, inspired by Radames 'Juni' Figueroa's fountains

Pablo reading on cooking and home entertaining from Sophia Loren's cookbook

Pablo's guacamole, including a roquamole following a recipe by Nigella Lawson, and with a healthy option of little gem and celery instead of nachos


Chris Miller demonstrating how to do butter our of cream (just shake it in a jar)


Fritz and Rocky paying attention to Mr. Miller's buttering technique


Mr. Miller's butter is ready


the round carpet made on site out of recycled clothes


visiting homos (and friends of hommos) in communion


some paper decorations, leftovers of David's 40


amigos gathering around the fountain


David's pineapple fountain at it's full glory


knitting and bonding at the Homo-geo tent


Rocky Casale getting ready for photoshoot at Angelo Plessas silver couch


hetero fag hags bonding hairstyles


young couple found love under the geodesic dome


the pineapple queen

and Pablo being macho

(the good photos are courtesy of Angelo Plessas or Fritz Haeg)

click here to see Angelo's report

and visit Fritz Queer Home Economics web page here

Fritz Haeg's
Sundown Schoolhouse of QUEER HOME ECONOMICS

Part of Wide Open School at the Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London / June 11 - July 11, 2012 / open Tue to Sun 10:00 - 20:30 (after June 18 from Tue to Fri, 11:00 - 17:30 and Sat & Sun 11:00 - 19:30)

~ Contact info(at)sundownschoolhouse(dot)org with any questions about the program
~ See updates on Wikidiary and interview in BUTT
~ Are you interested in proposing an event, workshop, conversation, meeting, or activity for any open period you see in our schedule below?

The Sundown Schoolhouse of Queer Home Economics invites the local queer community to our temporary HQ for an on-going dialog about 'making ourselves at home' with casual and programmed conversing, cooking, crafting, debating, decorating, demonstrating, discussing, dishing, eating, exercising, hanging out, lecturing, moving, performing, reading, speechifying, talking, teaching, and workshopping related to LGBTQ home-making (inspired by the program of ‘home economics’ developed in the 19th century to educate young women in domestic duties). As a place to queer our ideas of home, it is based in the very queer home of an intimate geodesic dome tent installed over a seating platform and conversation pit surrounded by fruit trees on the rooftop terrace of the Hayward Gallery for their pre-Olympics Wide Open School program.

An open call and invitations to the local LGBTQ community leads to periodic daily programming, which might include skill-building workshops (cleaning, cooking, decorating, knitting, gardening, sewing, flower-arranging, baking, cooking, canning...); relationship seminars (counseling, community, family, children, couples...); and activities related to the creative, financial, legal, logistical, political, and social aspects of queer home-making. Casual drop-in activities will otherwise continue from morning to night, such as book clubs, extended craft-making sessions, movement exercises, potluck meals, and general dialog about today's domesticating queer and ways of queering the domestic.

Fritz Haeg, artist and Schoolhouse organizer, is in residence during the first week leading daily events, starting the program on June 11th with an introductory talk Out and In the Homosexual Home, and introducing the new project series Domestic Integrities. Visitors are invited to bring their old clothes, fabrics, linens, towels, etc. to contribute to the communal making of a rug for the HQ.

Brent Pilkey, PhD candidate at the UCL Bartlett School of Architecture, will have a regular presence at the Schoolhouse through the month as co-curator and scholar in residence, organizing events, leading conversations, conducting research, and continuing work on his thesis Queering Heteronormativity at Home.

~ SCHEDULE ~

WEEK ONE

~ MONDAY, JUNE 11 ~
...10:00 - 11:30 ~ Morning Movement ~ with Fritz Haeg
...11:30 - 13:00 ~ Domestic Integrities ~ with Fritz Haeg
...13:00 - 14:30 ~ Wotever World ~ with Ingo Cando (bring your lunch)
...18:30 - 20:30 ~ Opening Presentation/Conversation~ with Fritz Haeg & Brent Pilkey

~ TUESDAY, JUNE 12 ~
...10:00 - 11:30 ~ Morning Movement ~ with Fritz Haeg
...11:30 - 13:00 ~ Domestic Integrities ~ with Fritz Haeg
...15:00 - 17:00 ~ Gay Family Trees ~ with Hera Cook and Lisa Metherell
...17:00 - 20:30 ~ Little Joe Film screenings ~ with Sam Ashby, Little Joe Magazine and Paul Green, Avant Gardening (potluck dinner)

~ WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13 ~
...10:00 - 11:30 ~ Morning Movement ~ with Fritz Haeg
...11:30 - 13:00 ~ Domestic Integrities ~ with Fritz Haeg
...13:00 - 16:00 ~ The Knitted Habitat ~ with Alex Black (soup will be served)
...18:30 - 20:30 ~ Feeling at Home? Queering Home Research ~ with Brent Pilkey (UCL) and Rachel Scicluna (OU) - soup will be served.

~ THURSDAY, JUNE 14 ~
...10:00 - 11:30 ~ Morning Movement ~ with Fritz Haeg
...11:30 - 13:00 ~ Domestic Integrities ~ with Fritz Haeg
...14:00 - 16:00 ~ Queer Tupperware Party ~ A film screening with Jeffrey Hinton
...18:30 - 20:30 ~ A Conversation with Margaret Pepper (potluck dinner & soup)

~ FRIDAY, JUNE 15 ~
...10:00 - 11:30 ~ Morning Movement ~ with Fritz Haeg
...11:30 - 13:00 ~ Domestic Integrities ~ with Fritz Haeg
...13:00 - 14:00 ~ A Conversation About Gay Squats ~ with Jeffrey Hinton and Matt Cook (bring your lunch)
...14:00 - 17:30 ~ rug crocheting
...17:30 - 21:30 ~ Decor, Dining, and Homo Entertaining ~ with Pablo Leon de la Barra & David Waddington

~ SATURDAY, JUNE 16 ~
...11:00 - 20:30 ~ I'm With You ~ all day events co-curated by Christa Holka, Justin Hunt, and Johanna Linsley

~ SUNDAY, JUNE 17 ~
...11:00 - 20:30 ~ In Every Dream Home, a Heartache ~ all day events co-curated by Paul Green of Avant Gardeners

WEEKS TWO, THREE, & FOUR
Open to view and occasional programming through July 11th ~ Tuesdays to Sundays from 11:00 to 17:30 and Sat & Sun from 11:00 to 19:30 (Closed Mondays).

~ SUNDAY, JUNE 24 ~
...14:00 - 19:30 ~ Crafternoon ~ with Alex Black

~ SUNDAY, JULY 1 ~
...15:00 -19:30 ~ Queer Knit London ~

~ SUNDAY, JULY 8 ~
...15:00 -19:00 ~ Faeries on the Roof (Gay Pride Sunday) with the Faeries of Albion ~