Housegathering was built on a danish island during Sejerø Festival 2012.
Resting house and Bathing house are portable structures that do not quite know whether they are furniture or houses. They can be inherited and moved like furniture, but have the size of small houses. They raise questions to the notions of domesticity and homelessness : "What lives in the furniture" and " In which context does the furniture live"? To enter them you don´t walk into a house - you walk out to a house.
The two structures point at basic, spatial and haptic relations to the house. "Where does the house ends and where does the environment begins".
During Sejerø Festival Resting house and Bathing house left the dilapidated farm - where the festival took place - and moved out into the surrounding countryside. "
Resting house was carried out on the meadow by eight local men , where it temporarily settled in the dialogue between the protected and the exposed.
Bathhouse was carried out on the meadow of six men, where it temporarily settled in the dialogue between the intimate and the uncontrolled.
Resting house and Bathing house were built directly in 1:1 and face to face with the local community.
The wooden construction of Resting house is complemented by an old door frame, old ceiling boards, mosquito screen, mattress and pillows with local embroidery.
The wooden construction of Bathing house is complemented by old ceiling panels , rainwater barrels, black hose, hand bilge pump, shower head, membrane foil and a drain pot of bulrush.
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