
“When we talk about an object of desire, we are really talking about a cluster of promises we want someone or something to make to us and make possible for us. …the surrender to the return to the scene where the object hovers in its potentialities is the operation of optimism as an affective form.” –Lauren Berlant, Cruel Optimism.
One day a year, “home tour” brings together year-round practices and materiality animating “historic” Phoenix. For a small fee, tourgoers meander through other people’s homes, viewing the ordinary “clusters of promises” comprising the domestic sphere: “kitchen”, “bathroom”, “bookshelf”. Vendors on hand offer accoutrements to complete the set, enliven the pact, renew the vow.
To move, through each house: to return, each year. Home tour is defined by the magnetism of repetition, each ordinary domestic assemblage charged with optimism.
- House No. 1, 2242 N. Michell St.
- House No. 2 – 2214 N. Mitchell St.
- House No. 4 – 2018 N. Mitchell St.
- House No. 6 – 2011 N. Mitchell St.
- House No. 7, 2017 N. Mitchell St.
- House No. 8 – 2010 N. Mitchell St.
- House No. 9 – 2229 N. Mitchell St.
- House No. 10, 2229 N. Mitchell St.
- House No. 11 – 2233 N. Michell St.
- House No. 10 – 2237 N. Mitchell St.
- Kitchen No. 1
- Kitchen No. 2
- Kitchen No. 3
- Kitchen No. 4
- Kitchen No. 5
- Kitchen No. 6
- Kitchen No. 7
- Kitchen No. 8
- Kitchen No. 9
- Kitchen No. 10
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- Books No. 1
- Books No. 2
- Books No. 3
- Books No. 4
- Books No. 5
- Books No. 6
- Books No. 7
- Books No. 8
- Books No. 9
- Books No. 10
- Chalk Board
- Ribbons
- Painting
- Painting
- Bedroom
- Bulletin Board
- Window Decal
- Houses Painting
- Repurposed Map Window Shade
- Wedding Photograph
- Vendor No. 1
- Vendor No. 2
- Vendor No. 3
- Vendor No. 4
- Vendor No. 5
- Vendor No. 6
- Vendor No. 7
- Vendor No. 8
- Vendor No. 9
- Vendor No. 10
- Car Show No. 1
- Car Show No. 2
- Car Show No. 3
- Car Show No. 4
- Car Show No. 5
- Car Show No. 6
- Car Show No. 7
- Car Show No. 8
- Car Show No. 9
- Car Show No. 10
- North West, Part 1
- North West, Part 2
- South West, Part 1
- South West, Part 2
- South East
- North East
- Coronado Home Tour
- Tour Marker
- Home Tour Living Room
- Peeking In
- Wash Room
- Tourist Magnets
- Before and After
- Home Tour Map
- Don’t tread on me
- Photographs and Keys
- Crime Never Pays
- No Access
- Dresser
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- Twister
- Home Tour
- Lizard
- Have you ever been happier than you are right now