Mundane Appreciation Week is a 7-day project combining installation, performance, audio and audience participation. Mundane Appreciation sets up a display stand and activity centre in different locations, to explore and celebrate everyday life. Visitors are invited to discuss their everyday methodology with our on-site representatives and take part in a number of activities such as writing to-do lists, transcribing telephone messages, peeling vegetables, changing electrical plugs, folding clothes, organising clutter, and filling in questionnaires.
Mundane Appreciation offers a range of promotional gifts to visitors such as pencils, balloons, badges and always offers a selection of classic biscuits.
Mundane Appreciation Week was launched in May 2007 at the Oxford Brookes Fine Art degree show: Mum, Dad, I'm An Artist!, held at the Richard Hamilton Building, Oxford. It has since inspired the diverse range of ideas and projects that constitute Mundane Appreciation.
In preparation for the launch, Mundane Appreciation roamed the streets asking the people of Oxford what they really think about their day-to-day lives; including how they change their bedsheets, go round supermarket, and dry their laundry. You can find this comical hour long piece installed in the nearby toilet facilities at any Mudand Appreciation Week event.
