Publisher: House Projects + Atelier Projects
Language: English
ISBN-10: –
ISBN-13: 978-0-9549844-2-7
Product Dimensions: 22 x 14.8 x 2 cm
Release Date: 2008
Edition: 500 copies
Project Design and Production: Atelier David Smith, Dublin
Paper: Munken Lynx and Hello Gloss
Type: Berthord Akzidenz Grotesk and Quadraat
House Projects was a series of seven exhibitions spanning five months, over four cities, three countries, two continents; with the participation of seven co-ordinators/curators, forty-nine artists and eight writers. it was conceived as an interdisciplinary collaboration between artists, curators and critics, intended to eschew established or hierarchical roles. This publication, which is the summation of that collaboration, serves as a document of the artworks that made up the exhibitions, alongside texts that alternately describe, react to, contextualise, or act as a critical response to the curators’ ideas.
The formal model out of which House Proiects operated put the organisation of each exhibition in the hands of an individual co-ordinator, who curated an exhibition in their house (or in response to their housing situation). It was based upon the recognition of an ‘art-local’ audience, a peer-to-peer audience, the make up of which being small groupings on an international scale who act as an important reception point in the dissemination and spread of cultural ideas; as well as the possibility of mobilising an international peer network to allow
a large project succeed on the basis of the input of combined resources. Further to this was the ambition to explore alternative spatial and temporal relationships between artist and site, artworks and audience, the private and the public.
David Smith – born Dublin, Ireland, 1971
AGI Membership – 2010
David Smith graduated from Dunlaoghaire College of Art and Design in 1993 with Honours in Visual Communications. Upon graduation he worked as a designer with QMP/DDFHB before working independently as an editorial designer and art director in the fashion and entertainment sectors.
In 1998 he completed his graduate studies under the direction of Profs. Peter Keller, Jean Widmer and Hans Jürg Hunziker at L’Atelier National de Recherche Typographique (ENSAD, Paris, France). Upon graduating he worked freelance in Paris – most notably with Integral-Ruedi Baur et Associés on the development of a visual identity and commerative programme for the RATP (Paris Transport Authority). Following a brief return to Dublin he moved to the Netherlands to work with UNA (Amsterdam) designers. During his time at UNA he had the privilege of working on a series of high profile projects including the design of ten millennium stamps for the PTT (Dutch Post Office) and identity projects for the Asko Schönberg Ensembles and Randstad.
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