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Putting
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House in Order
Artists:
Eila Goldhahn (lead): Installation and Film footage
Mike McInerney: Japanese Flute
Eeva-Maria Mutka: Dance Performance
Stuart J Young: Photography and Music
Project type: Installation / Exhibition
Eila Goldhahn (lead): Installation and Film footage
Mike McInerney: Japanese Flute
Eeva-Maria Mutka: Dance Performance
Stuart J Young: Photography and Music
Project type: Installation / Exhibition
“The world hangs on a thin thread and that is the psyche of man.”
— Carl G. Jung
Putting Our House in Order is an evolving, site-responsive installation that brings together maps, agricultural tools, found objects, moving images, sound and performance. Through processes of gathering, rearrangement and participation, the work explores how communities navigate periods of ecological, social and political transformation.
First realised in Totnes—a place internationally recognised for community-led environmental initiatives and alternative models of resilience—the project addresses questions of stewardship, land use, memory and collective responsibility. Totnes provided a fertile context in which to begin this enquiry, but the themes at the heart of the work resonate far beyond a single location.
Conceived as a migratory structure, the installation is designed to be reconfigured in dialogue with new architectural settings, local histories and ecologies. Each iteration invites the participation of artists, communities and partner organisations, generating new constellations of materials, gestures and narratives while remaining connected to previous manifestations through an evolving archive and composite map.
Rather than presenting a fixed exhibition, Putting Our House in Order functions as an expanding field of research and exchange. It proposes exhibition-making as a form of collective world-building: an open, adaptive process through which different places can reflect on change, uncertainty and the possibilities of renewal.
Installation Wall of Maps with performer Eeva-Maria Mutka
CONTACT: eilagoldhahn@gmail.com
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Tenuis
Collaborators:
Eila Goldhahn: Video installation
Jamie Mills: Sculptures & Curation
Stuart J Young: Calligraphy and Sculptures
Jamie Mills: Sculptures & Curation
Stuart J Young: Calligraphy and Sculptures
‘Tenuis’ featured work by Stuart J Young, Eila Goldhahn, and Jamie Mills. The exhibition traversed drawing, sculpture, artefact, and moving image to share a common voice in the exploration of gesture, material status, and ritual as a means of contemplation and transformation.
Goldhahn’s, Mills’ and Young’s works speak of fragility and diligence. They honour their material integrity as well as their process of creation - the innate errant journeys that exist between a uiet inner voice and an emergent materiality - in their small disruptions. As with prayer, of which, its strength exists in the activity, it is the accumulation of subtle voices - a gentle coaxing which begets transformation through the interfacing of the materials over time.
CONTACT: eilagoldhahn@gmail.com
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Shared Habitat Exhibition Totnes 2025
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Gardens of Culture
A two-day conference on artistic, utopian communities co-curated by Dr Eila Goldhahn, Dr Nele Lipp and Brygida Ochaim for KOINZI TANZ and held in Aby Warburg Haus, Hamburg in November 2024.Eila's lecture on her experiences of Dartington, the Collegeand postmodern dance was published in Lettre International in June 2025.
Interval: Dartington in Times of Change
Artists: Eila Goldhahn and Stuart Young
Practice: Photography
Project type: Photo essay / Exhibition /Publication
Material: C-Prints
Funders: KOINZI, Hamburg,
Practice: Photography
Project type: Photo essay / Exhibition /Publication
Material: C-Prints
Funders: KOINZI, Hamburg,
The photo essay Interval explores Dartington as a site of cultural memory and transition was exhibited at the Aby Warburg Haus, Hamburg 2023, and subsequently at Birdwood House, Totnes, in February 2024.
“Beguiling and haunting — a comment on a fading, beautiful thing.”
“Fascinating, insightful commentary on the changing life of Dartington.”
“Profound and thoughtful, with strong visual acumen.”
“An excellent and beautiful composition. Meaningful images of change.”
“Very, very impressive.”
“Fascinating, insightful commentary on the changing life of Dartington.”
“Profound and thoughtful, with strong visual acumen.”
“An excellent and beautiful composition. Meaningful images of change.”
“Very, very impressive.”
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Hortus Conclusus
Conceived for the German Embassy Rineland-Palatinate in Brussels, Hortus Conclusus takes its title from the medieval “enclosed garden”, a motif in art and literature associated with fertility, purity, and both earthly and divine love. The installation reimagines this symbolic landscape as a space of encounter and conception, examining the interconnected themes of human affection, spiritual longing, and regeneration. By revisiting the imagery of the enclosed garden, the work creates a setting that is at once intimate and universal, inviting visitors to consider the garden as a metaphor for protection, transformation, and the possibility of renewal.
Artist: Eila Goldhahn
Practice: Art-Science-Ecology-Embodiment
Project type: Installation / Exhibition
Material: china clay, flower petals, mixed media on canvas, textile, wire
Funders: Embassy of Rhineland Palatinate in Brussels, European Union
Artist: Eila Goldhahn
Practice: Art-Science-Ecology-Embodiment
Project type: Installation / Exhibition
Material: china clay, flower petals, mixed media on canvas, textile, wire
Funders: Embassy of Rhineland Palatinate in Brussels, European Union