Katie Schwab Living With Nicole Morris
Part 6 of Living With: 6 artists, 6 homes
Rim…………………………Wear your heart on your sleeve
Faucet…………………………All ears
Gasket…………………………In the heat of the moment
Nut…………………………A penny for your thoughts
Overflow pipe…………………………Tongue in cheek
Flexible connector…………………………See eye to eye
Water supply pipe…………………………Be in hot water
Isolation valve…………………………Feel under the weather
Drain…………………………A fish out of water
Trap…………………………The ball is in your court
Waste outlet…………………………Cross that bridge when you come to it
Decorative panel…………………………Every cloud has a silver lining
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Text by Katie Schwab in response to living with
‘Self-diagnose’, by Nicole Morris
Super 8 film digital transfer with sound, 3:26 mins
2020
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‘Living With’ was produced during lockdown 2020 and sought to reflect on the conditions we found ourselves in. A circular exchange of artworks was set up between artists Kira Freije, Onyeka Igwe, Maria de Lima, Nicole Morris, Alicia Reyes McNamara and Katie Schwab. Each artist was invited to exhibit in an assigned room of another artist’s home, in turn sharing images of the artworks installed in their own home alongside their response to living with this work.
‘Living With’ was the third iteration of the self-initiated project INGEST/DIGEST/EXCRETE, which was established in 2018 by Maria de Lima and
Nicole Morris. Taking multiple formats including, exhibition, residency, publication, radio broadcast and symposium, the project considered collaboration and how a network of friendship can create spaces for shared dialogue, exchange and production. Over the past three years we have explored the home as a context for this project, which has housed the conversations, material explorations and social encounters that we have archived here.