Marble presents “IT’S MY HOUSE”

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Marble presents “IT’S MY HOUSE” by Alysha Seriani and Hazel Meyer was born out of Meyer’s 2020 exhibition at Western Front, The Weight of Inheritance. For six months, Seriani and Meyer’s five-minute video played on the Mount Pleasant Community Art Screen, programmed by grunt gallery. 

Made in the style of a karaoke music video Marble presents “IT’S MY HOUSE” was in part homage to Diana Ross’s 1979 single “It’s My House,” and part exploration of the messes and pleasures of having and sharing a “space” to call our own. 

Intertwined with the characteristic lyric titles of karaoke videos was a collection of scenes filmed on Super 8 where two people and a puppet move in and out of the frame, caught in the act of something. Part consciousness-raising, illicit concoction, inventory of liquids, text fragments, and scattered objects, these scenes accompanied such lyrics as “there’s my chair / I put it there,” reminding viewers of the aesthetic pleasure of self-determination.

Through humour, karaoke, and the familiarity of a muppet-like face, Marble presents “IT’S MY HOUSE” invited dialogue about the relationship between dignified housing and the radical potential of playing together.