Shell-ter

“Shell-ter” is a project inspired by the topics of home, migration and community and explores the promises and problems of “taking home with you”. Looking closely at the relationship between home and mobility, we ask what “home” could be nowadays, in a constantly changing set of circumstances? What might it mean to have it always there, where you are? Inspired by the survival strategies and social behaviors of hermit crabs, we will approach questions around “home” through the image of carrying one’s home on one’s back. The stage becomes a landscape of real and imagined “shell-ters”. What might it mean to share and exchange these new forms of home while the memory and shape of the previous inhabitant is still fresh?