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Emma Wolf-Haugh, b.1974

Domestic Optimism – Act One: A Lesbian Love Story, 2020

Domestic Optimism is a video about mangled and mistold modernist legacies. The project begins with furniture, inanimate objects that come loaded with social connections and invisible histories. Through the displacement of cultural detritus Emma Wolf-Haugh retells modernist architectural history in the collective key of queer-feminist and decolonial practices, continually unearthing filth in times of hygiene, and complicating things that were never simple to begin with. 

MediumSingle channel video and script zine (unlimited edition, for audience to take away) with customised concrete display holder
Dimensions Duration: 37:17 min
Credit LineIMMA Collection: Purchase, 2021
Item NumberIMMA.4205
Copyright For copyright information, please contact the IMMA Collections team: [email protected].
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Emma Wolf-Haugh, Domestic Optimism – Act One: A Lesbian Love Story, 2020, Single channel video and script zine (unlimited edition, for audience to take away) with customised concrete display holder, Duration: 37:17 min, Collection Irish Museum of Modern Art, Purchase, 2021

For copyright information, please contact the IMMA Collections team: [email protected].

  • About the Artist

    • About the Artist

    Emma Wolf Haugh, b.1974

     

    Artist and educator Emma Wolf-Haugh combines installation, performance, publishing and collaborative workshop techniques to draw attention to cultural narratives by developing work from a questioning of ‘what is missing’. Her work is informed by how spaces, identities and social relations are generated temporarily in theatre, drag performance and queer DIY club scenes. Since 2015 Haugh is part of the artist/curatorial collective The Many Headed Hydra together with the curator Suza Husse.

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