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RITOS COTIDIANOS
01. ABSTRACT
01. ABSTRACT
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It is possible to talk about home as a political micro rituality. The domestic spaces we inhabit correspond to a collective imagination constructed by supposedly unquestionable truths; nevertheless it is not about fi nished certainties, but fragments of reality. The key is to decide which of them to choose.
We live in a desecrated society, but it is sacralized through other parameters. Those parameters are born from a symbology crossed by the logics of power, that are often irrelevant.
There is a kind of true discourse about how we should live, which needs to be questioned. The act of desecration is claimed as a possible action to explore new meanings, new realities and structures, through interpretation.
Our houses are part of a reality that, in many cases, we have invented. It is developed and supported on three fundamental pillars: the ideology, the body, and the technology. They have determined and marked considerably the great changes in western society, especially in recent years.
Our homes, showcases of our lifestyles, should always go hand in hand with these great changes. However, they are usually the consequence of imposed and often inherited historical narratives.
A revision and an appropiate updating of the daily rituals is necessary. The house is the physical frame of those daily rituals. From a situated viewpoint, which starts from estrangement, this work deals with the apparent staticity of our houses, and talks about domestic myths, as present and past realities and fi ctions, which coexist at the same time.
Key words: myth, domesticity, rites, truth, collective imagination, house
