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Making Home Saturday Series: Systems Shaping Our Understanding of Home (Session 2), March 22, 2025 3:00PM

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March 22, 2025 3:00PM

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Making Home Saturday Series: Systems Shaping Our Understanding of Home (Session 2)

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The Making Home Saturday Series is a quarterly program that pairs special guests with participants from Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial. The program’s two-part sessions include conversations on exhibition-related themes, including systems, belonging, memory, care, and building, as well as the contemporary concepts of home related to race, class, migration, climate, and technology.   

In our next Making Home Saturday Series, join us to learn more about the systems shaping our understanding of home through a deeper look at two Triennial installations, Unruly Subjects by artists Sofía Gallisá Muriente, Natalia Lassalle-Morillo and Carlos Soto and Contrast Form Gestalt by multidisciplinary collective CFGNY. Both projects probe ideas and ethics of institutional homes, like Cooper Hewitt, and their practices of acquiring and displaying objects from abroad.  

In Session 2, CFGNY (Concept Foreign Garments New York), an artist collective established in New York in 2016, interrogates the practice of anonymizing Asian design through the decorative arts economy.  For the program, members Daniel Chew, Ten Izu, and Tin Nguyen will discuss Contrast Form Gestalt, their Triennial commission in which they draw attention to systems of classification and knowledge as perpetuated through institutions.  

When finalizing plans for their new home in 1902, the Carnegie family engaged interior designer and landscape painter Lockwood de Forest to create a unique space for their private library. De Forest conceived a total environment produced by the Ahmedabad Wood Carving Company in India, a venture he established with trading heir Maganbhai Hutheesing in 1881 to promote and commodify the aesthetics of Indian craft. The resulting Teak Room copies and collages details from Ahmedabad tombs, mosques, mausoleums, and domestic architecture, now placed in an elite US context.  

For the program, CFGNY will lead us through a closer look at the Carnegie Mansion’s Teak Room, which they have recontextualized for the Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial with contemporary construction materials, and discuss their perspective on 19th- and 20th-century collecting practices of Western museums which systematically depersonalized makers. 

Saturday Series Discount: Purchase a ticket for the first program and receive 50% off the second program. Please add both programs to your cart from each event listing or by selecting Back to Calendar from your cart. The discount will be automatically applied. Note that the ticket types and quantities must match for the discount to be valid.

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