The photographs in House Rules present participatory acts and events that unfolded over a fixed period of time in a family home. All images adhere to the parameters that they must have been made in this home, during the five year period of occupation and must be representations of real-life occurrences.

The resulting series interrogates the experience of shared living in a family context. Events of work, learning, creativity and play form a collaborative lexicon here, with themes and actions recurring over time. Ownership of these events are left without demarcation; hinting at the question of whether the domestic can be considered an arena of co-making and performative co-action.

For its first public showing in Ireland in July 2022, House Rules is displayed in a suburban domestic setting which is in the process of becoming my family’s new home.

House Rules was kindly supported as part of the PhotoIreland Festival 2022 open programme. More at https://2022.photoireland.org/on/house-rules/