Interior Realms

Interior Realms

Book launch

We invite you to step into Interior Realms: a domain of reflection, a zone of imagination, a sphere of cosmic reverie, a field of observation, an empire of fleeting thoughts, a territory of contemplation, a province of desires, an orbit of fantasy. 

To celebrate the launch of Interior Realms, the latest book published by Theatrum Mundi Editions, Theatrum Mundi is hosting a virtual evening featuring a newly commissioned film, readings, and a talk. 

Against the backdrop of the major shift in working practices, Interior Realms shares sixteen new pieces of writing – essays, poems, prose poems, short stories – two interviews and ten audio tracks: the kitchen table, spare bedroom, home office, home studio, garage, shed, bedroom, bathroom, garden, closet and, on one occasion, car productions. All homemade, the works in this collection come from within the space that used to be a niche infrastructure, largely overlooked in studies of culture in cities, and play with the idea of what home is and where it can be found.  

The book is accompanied by an audio compilation including ten homemade tracks that reflect the ways in which architectural spaces shape music production and how that music, in turn, transforms architecture’s atmospheric qualities. 

Contributors: Alison Irvine/ Andrea Cetrulo / Casper Laing Ebbensgaard / Cecily Chua / Charlotte Law / Cucina Povera / ENDGAME / Flora Pitrolo / Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh / John Bingham-Hall / Labeja Kodua Okullu / Lyall Hakaraia / Marta Michalowska / Meghana Bisineer / Michael Salu / Niall Campbell / Pol Esteve Castelló / R.W.P/ Rut Blees Luxemburg / Satu Streatfield / Stephen Sutcliffe / Victor Ginesta / Vladimir Muratovski Divo aka Elektro Kultura / William Messenger

Tickets include a copy of the book, a download link to the audio compilation, as well as access to the live programme.

Live Programme

Friday, March 26th

 7:00pm GMT 

Introduction by editors Andrea Cetrulo and Marta Michalowska

Screening of Interior Realms: An ode to sodium light, 2021, [add length here], directed by Rocio Chacon, lighting design by Satu Streatfield.

The short film takes us on an abstract journey through light, reflection and shadow. It evokes light and soundscapes across domestic, urban and celestial scales, conjured by macro images of low pressure sodium lamps striking and warming up to their distinctive, monochromatic, warm glow. A soundtrack by sound artist Kundai Munestsi overlays and meshes sounds of the domestic and the urban, accompanying the viewer through a luminous dreamscape.

The performance will be followed by readings of two Interior Realms pieces by their authors: Michael Salu will be reading Darker Night, an essay on walking the night streets of Berlin during lockdown as a way to understand shifts in non-linear, virtual time and space as brought on by the events of the past year. R.W.P will be reading from Site Report: The Window , an exploration of the window as a threshold space between the home and the street, the domestic and the public, the familiar and the unknown, the reality and the dream, the truth and the fantasy, the safety and the threat.   

The event will culminate with a talk by American-Iranian writer and professor of philosophy Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh, who will be sharing speculative ideas on interior spaces and the after-dark as philosophical and metaphysical concepts.