Dominic Page
DP - I think my practice looks quite different to this. So, I guess, if I was to explain my practice, it would be… looking at labour, particularly housework and maintenance work, and the value of it; if it’s valued. And yeh, sort of, not adopting but looking to sort of, some seminal feminist practices that would have looked at that. Umm, and sort of... yeh, questioning is everything a sort of labour? And why is it there seems to be some sort of hierarchy, between various forms of it, and sort of distilling that into a kind of art context, I guess.
BB - But I guess, this work sort of still kind of does that in a way as well?
DP - Yes. I mean when I say it looks very different, it’s just, before this I hadn’t wrapped a room in like, I don’t know… seven or eight, or nine months. Or maybe even longer. No - I haven’t wrapped a room since January, so almost a whole year. But I mean, I guess that’s the thing with a practice, it’s like, you may do a work that you’ve stopped doing, but you revisit it, you re look at it, through what you are doing now. Whilst it may not exactly relate, you can, find connections and it’s quite nice that… I remember, I don’t know who I was talking to earlier today, but, they asked like ‘why do you use potato?’ and I was explaining like, kind of, not the regular reason as to why I originally used it, but now, looking at it, I can see how that… the idea of sustenance and maintenance, where does a practice begin and end, kind of fed into this looking at labour - where does labour begin and end? And that kind of thing.
