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Seven hosts -- with very different backgrounds except for the city they live in -- stage seven interventions in a public space in the city.
Through the use of a Head Room home box, a box covering their heads yet leaving their bodies visible, they invite one person for a face to face conversation. This home box, designed by architect Stéphane Derveaux, is not just a box, but a reproduction of the hosts’ favourite room in their own houses. The Head Room, from this perspective, balances on the edge between so called private and public space.
The hosts themselves decide who to invite. The conversations they engage in are no interviews. There are no specific questions that need to be answered. It is in the first place about the actual experience of being in the Head Room, its performative aspect, the feelings and reflections it brings about.
The Head Room home boxes, the hosts and their conversations are brought back to the project’s base camp -- the Head Room of the project -- located at the platform China studio in the 798 factory. Every box adds another “room” to the installation that is being created as the interventions proceed. The Head Room in 798 is open 24 hours a day, during the Dashanzi International Art festival, and serves as a laboratory, archive and platform for lectures, screenings, discussions and workshops, bringing together organizers, curators, researchers, artists and of course audience.
