We Wanna Sleep With Common People

As most of myself does these days. Leaving the studio where I lived since 2007 is an inevitable step in my life. Every time I return from my travels, I feel it even more; it is no longer who I am. Sure, domestic space can shape and nurture our personality, the same way public space shapes our behaviour and culture as we grow up. But it can also prevent our personal evolution.

Evolution is change. Stepping out of my comfort zone or even my own home.

I want to experience this change in full awareness, as a moment of inner truth. It feels like an important threshold to the next room. 

Why I do (and did) what I do (and did)?

As an artist I am not interested in making the world better, but yet I do. I am just like you, an agent of culture fighting against social entropy. Trying to keep the pieces of society together, binding them with culture.

I need to harmonize these two sides.

For my domestic endeavours in Bucharest I coined different terms for this:

• homemade culture: the encounter between works of art and home
• domestic box: the living space where an artistic event is happening
• hostartists: an artist who hosts an art event

and most importantly

• cultural domestic agent: a common person who opens his/her home to art & culture and welcomes strangers in his/her private space

Common people are offered the option of becoming organizers of cultural events, not just consumers. Could the uberization of culture be the next level? It could be a benchmark to measure the cultural potential of a city; outside of the institutions and into homes. 

In order to make changes, we must leave our comfort zone.

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