Domestic Optimism - T-shirts Designed by Emma Wolf-Haugh on Sale Now!

As part of our Basic Space 10 year anniversary programme we have invited artist Emma Haugh to design a wearable artwork! These limited edition t-shirts will be available to pick up at our 10 year launch/anniversary/christmas party on Wednesday the 4th of December from 6 to 9pm in Ryan’s Bar on Store Street, Dublin 1.

A limited number of t-shirts will be available to purchase after that date so pre-order now to avoid disappointment!! T-shirts come in sizes S, M, L, XXL and are €15 each.
To pre-order your t-shirt and pay with cash on the night please email us at basicspacedublin@gmail.com

All proceeds will be divided between the artist and our Basic Space 10 year anniversary programme.

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This T-shirt is a wearable slippage from the current research of Dublin/Berlin based artist Emma Wolf-Haugh with the working title of ‘Domestic Optimism Sapphic Modernity and the Sexual Dissidence of Domestic Design’ which will manifest as a major exhibition at The Project Arts Centre and The Grazer Kunstverein in 2020.

Domestic Optimism is the third act of a trilogy 1:The Re-appropriation of Sensuality (re-designing the sex club for female identified bodies) 2:Sex in Public (marking & performing cruising sites for queer womxn) and 3:Domestic Optimism (sexually dissident domestic design). As with the previous two acts Domestic Optimism engages historically with a queer-feminist bent working critically towards proposition making & future/past political imaginaries. 

Emma is a visual artist and educator. Weaving together installation, performance, publishing and collaborative workshop techniques, she is interested in re-orienting attention in relation to cultural narratives and develops work from a queer/feminist questioning of what is missing? 

Emma really likes t-shirts, zines and DIY design and happenings.

Emma is co-founder of the artist collective The Many Headed Hydra together with co-director of District Berlin Suza Husse and has worked as visiting lecturer at: The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (2017), The Universität der Künste Berlin (2017), IADT Dún Laoghaire (2017), NCAD, Dublin (2015), and has given workshops at: Hamburger Bahnhof Museum of Modern Art, Berlin (2018), Akademie der Künste der Welt, Cologne (2018), Gasworks, London (2017) and IMMA, Dublin (2015).

Current & recent projects include: IMMA 1000 Residency (2019-2020), Seized by the Left Hand, curated by Eoin Dara and Kim McAleese at Dundee Contemporary Arts, (Dec 2019), Is it Possible to Exist Outside of Language?, curated by Aziz Sohail, at Indus Valley School of Art & Architecture, Karachi, Pakistan (Sept. 2019), I SLIPPED INTO MY FIRST METAMORPHOSIS SO QUIETLY THAT NO ONE NOTICED, Curated by Gitte Villesen, Den Frie Center Of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen (June, 2019), Colomboscope interdisciplinary arts festival, curated by Natasha Ginwala, with The Many Headed Hydra, Sri Lanka (Jan, 2019). 

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