The Unexpected Guest
Art, writing and thinking about hospitality
ed. by Paul Domela and Sally Tallant ; with contr. by John Akomfrah, Kenneth Goldsmith, Rosi Braidotti …[et al.]

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Author(s)

Chris Alexander, Riccardo Boglione, Christian Bök, Stephen Burt, CAConrad, Kieran Daly, Craig Dworkin, J. Gordon Faylor, Robert Fitterman, Kristen Gallagher, Steve Giasson and Robert Fitterman, Kenneth Goldsmith, Lanny Jordan Jackson, Josef Kaplan, Tan Lin, Trisha Low, Stephen McLaughlin, Simon Morris, Tracie Morris, Eileen Myles, Vanessa Place, Kim Rosenfield, Vijay Seshadri, Maria Salgado, Don Share, Lytle Shaw and Jimbo Blachly, Ara Shirinyan, Nick Thurston, Darren Wershler and Bill Kennedy, Steven Zultanski, Rosi Braidotti, Costas Douzinas, Stuart Hall and David Scott, Achille Mbembe, Pelin Tan, Jacques Rancière

Editor(s)

Paul Domela and Sally Tallant

Publication

London : Art / Books, 2012

Scope

320 Pages, illustrated, 24 cm.

ISBN

9781908970039

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Published on the occasion of the 7th Liverpool Biennial (2012), ‘The Unexpected Guest' welcomes and gives home to an array of artists, writers and thinkers from the globe. It is not a catalogue of the exhibition, but a complex anthology of newly commissioned writing, artists’ projects and creative texts that explore the issue. Artists have been invited to reflect upon a particular aspect of hospitality, or to invite a guest to occupy their space. Kenneth Goldsmith and twenty-nine fellow poets like Josef Kaplan and Maria Salgado composed works on two key areas of relevance: technology and geography. And scholars like Rosi Braidotti and Achille Mbembe consider hospitality from multiple perspectives, including colonial history, spatial politics and the ethics of the host–guest relationship.

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Person as subject

Doug Aitken, John Akomfrah, Janine Antoni, Sylvie Blocher, Andrea Bowers, Libia Castro and Ólafur Ólafsson, Enrico David, Elmgreen and Dragset, Dora Garcia, Dan Graham, Mona Hatoum, Fritz Haeg, Jeanne van Heeswijk, Oded Hirsch, Hsieh Ying-chun, Nadia Kaabi-Linke, Markus Kahre, Anja Kirschner and David Panos, Jakob Kolding, Jirí Kovanda invites …, Suzanne Lacy and Stephanie Smith, Runo Lagomarsino, Jorge Macchi, Dane Mitchell, Sabelo Mlangeni, Mark Morrisroe, Patrick Murphy, Ahmet Ögüt, Trevor Paglen, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Pedro Reyes, Pamela Rosenkranz, Mikhael Subotzky and Patrick Waterhouse, Sun Xun, Superflex, Sinta Tantra, Tate Liverpool, Althea Thauberger, Jose Angel Vincench, Ming Wong, Jemima Wyman, Kohei Yoshiyuki, Akram Zaatari

Keywords

curating , hospitality

Location

Cabinet 30 - 4: Tentacular Thinking ; Mind Map'

Remarks

Includes notes, biographies