Could you transform your own home into an experimental art venue and allow artists to explore whatever and wherever they like?

Ahmed Farooqui did exactly that, turning his house into Space36, and in this episode we compare the domestic and the gallery as artistic spaces, and discuss the importance of being challenged and moving out of your comfort zone. We also talk about the impact of Covid, and how Ahmed chose to meet the challenges of putting together a show in response to the virus.

Ahmed Farooqui investigates the role of art and artistic resistance in creating the conditions for small scale, progressive and collaborative human relationships. He is the founder of the Degrees of Freedom collective who aim to investigate, make conscious and challenge the contours of unfreedom in public spaces. In 2016 he set up Space36, an occasional arts space based in an inhabited house in a residential street in North London to investigate the boundaries of the domestic, the private and the public.

LINKS

www.ahmedfarooqui.com

www.degreesof-freedom.com

www.space36.org.uk