Moving in and Out, or Staying in Bed: Using Multiple Ethnographic Positions and Methods to Study Artist-Led Housing as a Critical Spatial Practice
Keywords: in-house, critical friend, mapping with artists and staff members, ethnography, archival, creative writing, research events with staff members and artists, publications with other researchers, exhibitions, artist-led, housing, Leeds
This thesis is
concerned with the provision of housing by artist-led organisations. It is also
an embedded ethnographic study of a particular house called Artist
House 45, a pilot project located in South Leeds. An understanding of artist-led housing as both collective artworks
and interventions within the housing sector is developed. The research explores new strategies, rooted in and
among the day-to-day processes of artist-led organisations, for communicating,
translating and scaling artist-led housing.