States of Uncertain Domesticities: On the Political in Private Life and the Fragility of the Home

The publication States of Uncertain Domesticities documents and reflects on the performance-centered exhibition by the same name, which was shown at Haus Kunst Mitte Berlin.The building itself-a construction originally designed as a residential building which is now used as an exhibition venue-provided the starting point for the artistic interventions.Through performances and installation-based interventions, the curatorial team reactivated the original character of the house.In reference to the seminal feminist project Woman House (1972), the domestic space was interpreted as a political arena within which social tensions are revealed.Forty-four international contemporary artists explored questions relating to housing, care work, violence, migration, and gentrification through various installations, performances, and media artworks.This publication transfers the spatial and physical experiences into the temporality of the book, inviting readers to engage more deeply with these themes.