There's no place like home. It's where we live, work and dream. It's our sanctuary and our refuge. We can love them or hate them. It can be just for the night or for the rest of our lives. But whoever we may be, we all have a place we call home.
BYUN from thismustbetheplace on Vimeo.
Produced and directed by Ben Wu and David Usui of Lost & Found Films (lostfoundfilms.com).
THIS MUST BE THE PLACE is a series of short films that explore the idea of home; what makes them, how they represent us, why we need them.
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Interesting extension of this video is the Artists validation of "Readymade" or "Found" objects (disambiguation). Duchamp's urinal
( Fountain, 1917. ) or wine rack or bike wheel mounted on a stool are examples of the Dada-ist movement.
The term found art—more commonly found object (French: objet trouvé) or readymade—describes art created from the undisguised, but often modified, use of objects that are not normally considered art, often because they already have a non-art function. Marcel Duchamp was the originator of this in the early 20th century.
Found art derives its identity as art from the designation placed upon it by the artist. The context into which it is placed (e.g. a gallery or museum) is usually also a highly relevant factor. The idea of dignifying commonplace objects in this way was originally a shocking challenge to the accepted distinction between what was considered art as opposed to not art.
New York City is one large urban readymade with every gridded block offering objects with history and inanimate character. If I lived in this, or Brooklyn, dense visual and harmonic environment I would personally choose a counter point, the Ying Yang balance Wes mentioned in our pessimism/optimism discussion, a John Pawson Minimalist space in which to live.