The House on Display: Queering Domesticity at 10104 Angelo View Drive (original) (raw)

Abstract

This paper discusses how the project 10104 Angelo Drive, a filmic representation in an art gallery of the John Lautner-designed Sheats/Goldstein residence, underlines the tensions between its original purpose as a nuclear family house, its current owner’s use and its queer potential. Through a performance by queer artists-activists the Toxic Titties then captured on film by Dorit Margreiter (2004), the work follows recent scholarly discussions of the normative aspects of homes, and in this case more specifically modernist houses, challenging the assumptions linked to the modern home seen as a space of experimentation towards “better” living or “purer” forms. The paper also questions the existing discussions of the work that have often ignored the Toxic Titties’ involvement to focus on the more formal aspects of Dorit Margreiter’s film. This disconnection underlines how the Toxic Titties’ queer reimagining of the house presents a challenge not only to normative domesticity, but also to normative representations of domestic architecture.

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