PUBLIC: Art | Culture | Ideas is pleased to announce the release of its latest issue exploring the currencies of hospitality and to invite you to join the conversation.
Hospitality is usually considered a philosophical concept, an ethical concern with juridical implications, a sociopolitical practice… or an industry. This publication shifts the focus to speculate on many of its other (often stealth) manifestations. It mobilizes hospitality—as concept, metaphor, performance, and dissidence—to render its pluripotent agency.
This 320-page issue of PUBLIC is also a critical curatorial endeavour that weaves together artists’ projects, fiction, scholarly research, and other indefinable forms to explore some of the unexpected valences of hospitality in modern and contemporary art, cinema, animation, and exhibition making; in architecture, infrastructure, land use, and practices of cohabitation; in kinship and care; and in justice, pedagogy, and reparation.
Editor: Sylvie Fortin
Issue contributors: Irina Aristarkhova, Lisa Baldissera, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Tamar Guimarães, Charlie Hailey, Mark Jeffery, Kelly Kaczynski, Behzad Khosravi Noori, Justin Langlois, Kelly Lloyd, Karen Meyer, Cynthia Nicol, Dawit L. Petros, Megan Rooney, Claudia Ruitenberg, Diego Semerene, Felipe Steinberg, Andrew Stooke, Shannon R. Stratton, Sara Swain, Bojana Videkanić
“Currencies of Hospitality” online public program: four occasions in March
To celebrate the release of the latest issue of PUBLIC: Art | Culture | Ideas we are delighted to present a dynamic month-long series of online conversations extending the journal’s interdisciplinary exploration of the currencies of hospitality. This series brings together PUBLIC 61 contributors to expand on their projects together, and with you! In this, the series mobilizes and amplifies the publication, positioning it as a relay for the exchange of ideas, and a vector for attentive engagement, open debate, and speculation around questions of hospitality. Join us.
About PUBLIC: Art | Culture | Ideas
PUBLIC is an interdisciplinary journal focusing on visual art published bi-annually since 1988. Based in Toronto, Canada, PUBLIC is led by the Public Editorial Collective.
Order your copy of PUBLIC 61, “Currencies of Hospitality.”
Contact: public [at] yorku.ca
