September 2020

Following on from our recent series of instagram talks around Black Lives Matter, Basic Space are running a fundraiser with proceeds from the sale of Emma Wolf-Haugh’s Domestic Optimism* t-shirt going to MASI (we have the ability to raise up to €485!). 
MASI is an independent platform for asylum seekers to join together in unity and purpose.  The collective seeks justice, freedom and dignity for all asylum seekers.  Sales start on October the 1st and end on November the 15th 2020.
Please help us to support this vital initiative. If you can’t afford a t-shirt here is a link to donate what you can to MASI https://www.masi.ie/support-us/. 
Thank you!

* Many thank you’s to Emma Wolf-Haugh for her amazing art work and her generosity.

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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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