Join artist Morgan Quaintance in conversation with Laura Harris and Chiemi Shimada as they discuss Quaintance’s new film, Available Light.
Exploring themes of home and belonging in contemporary society, Available Light features interviews with workers at the Edo Tokyo Open Air Architecture Museum in Japan, alongside fragments of conversations with renters in both Tokyo and London. These elements spark a thought-provoking dialogue between the museum’s preserved historical ideal of the domestic and the often-unsettling realities of temporary accommodation in modern cities.
Available Light was shot and produced as part of a parallel collaboration with Anniversary Fellow and University of Southampton’s Senior Research Fellow, Laura Harris.
Morgan Quaintance is a London-based artist and writer. His moving image work has been shown and exhibited widely at festivals and institutions.
Laura Harris is an Anniversary Fellow in the Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology at the University of Southampton. Her research explores the work of making places meaningful. She often uses visual methods, such as photography, to conduct her research.
Chiemi Shimada is a Japanese-born artist-filmmaker, currently based in London. Her films explore themes of identity, time and intimacy in domestic spaces. Chiemi translated Available Light.