Domestic Encyclopaedia
by annee grøtte viken
in collaboration with composer
marthe belsvik stavrum
prologue
The Domestic Encyclopaedia is a work dedicated to the spaces closest to us; the ones we inhabit, create, build, grow up or into, linger in or leave, the spaces we call home.
How do the spaces we inhabit, affect us? What can they tell us about the world, ourselves and each other? What happens when our landscapes becomes deceitful?
The Domestic Encyclopaedia invites you to step back inside and probe the deep-seated nature of domestic space. To open your eyes and watch the bathroom gush by, smell the kitchen sizzle from on top of a rock, listen for the cellar to call your soul or taste the air in the bedroom kiss you goodnight as you quietly saunter the tiles of your living room floor.
“it matters what stories we tell to tell other stories with; it matters what concepts we think, to think other concepts with” Donna Harraway in the foreword of
The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin.
What is your space made of, where does it come from and who made it? What can it contain and where will it go?
The work consists of seven chapters, each named after a domestic space
found in a type house.
LISTEN
( complete audio: chapter 1-7)
table of contents
chapters & visuals
1
The Ghost and The Garret
of Love Like a Kind of Snow
with ‘Sweet Evenings Come and Go, Love’ by George Elliot
2
The Bedroom & The Dreamer
Float In The Morning Sky
with ‘A Breath of Life’ by Clarice Lispector
3
The Bath & The Hot And
Never Tepid Privacy Lover
with ‘Zooey’ by J.D Salinger
4
The Living Room & The Living
Sea Calls Me Home
with the Nigerian folktale ‘Why the sun and the moon live in the sky’ 
5
The Kitchen ∞ Flip Tortilla
Oblique Kitchen Glossary
with ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ by Gabriel García Márquez
6
The Garden & The Botanist
(A) Prospect
with ‘Seduction Of The Minotaur’ by Anais Nin
7
The Cellar And The Mason
Picture of a Night Scene
with ‘Voyage in the Dark’ by Jean Rhys
the project has been made possible
by trøndelag fylkeskommune
recorded and mastered at øra studio trondheim
special thanks to marthe, rachel,
the lebanese sajeria (lia!) that might be right (rob and paoletta),
ciiiva (tania!), atelier nord oslo, anna rosselini and carlo goncalves for providing space and time for the work to exist, be heard and change throughout all these years.
last but not least to the best rock loving,
dancing, loving friends and family, and jan for being home