Are You Crazy?: Unconditional Hospitality in Contemporary Art

IBK

Guest Lecture by Irina Aristarkhova organized by Marina Grzinic, Post-Conceptual Study Program (IBK).

Drawing on a wide range of theoretical discussions of hospitality, the talk will provide a broader framing of the various approaches contemporary artists adopt in mobilizing this notion, specifically analyzing the works of Lee Mingwei (Taiwan / USA), Kathy High (USA), Faith Wilding (USA), Ana Prvacki (Singapore / USA), Pippa Bacca (Italy), and Mithu Sen (India). The lecture opens a wider dialogue about and critical appreciation of specific works that are often regarded extreme in their provision of hospitality.

CV: Irina Aristarkhova is the author of ?Hospitality of the Matrix: Philosophy, Biomedicine, and Culture? (Columbia University Press, 2012). She teaches at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design of the University of Michigan, and is also a Visiting Professor of Gender Studies and Media Art Theory at the Department of Image Science, Danube University Krems (Austria). In 2002 Irina Aristarkhova, together with Faith Wilding, Coco Fusco and Maria Fernandez, started “Undercurrents” – an online discussion forum about intersections of cyberfeminism, new technologies, postcoloniality and globalization.