Winter 2021 Exhibition Opening Reception

Join us to celebrate the opening of I don’t know you like that: The Bodywork of Hospitality with the exhibition’s curator and a number of exhibiting artists!

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Have you ever considered the interplay between the body and hospitality? Ever wondered how hospitality might be fleshed out or embodied?

Developed for Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts by 2019-2021 Curator-in-Residence Sylvie Fortin, this ambitious group exhibition brings together the works of 18 contemporary artists to explore corporeal hospitality. Hospitality is usually considered a philosophical concept with juridical implications, an ethical concern, or a social/political practice. This group exhibition shifts the focus to consider the stealth work of hospitality on our conceptual, physical, political, and historical understanding of bodies. In the process, it reveals a storied genealogy that points to the extractive intersection of race, gender, class, religion, and value. I don’t know you like that: The Bodywork of Hospitality excavates this legacy and imagines other more-than-human hospitable modalities.

Image: Adham Faramay, Skin Flick (still), 2019. Video, 13:30 seconds. Courtesy of the artist.