Whose Land Have I Lit on Now?: Contemplations on the Notions of Hostipitality
Whose Land Have I Lit on Now?: Contemplations on the Notions of Hostipitality
Whose Land Have I Lit on Now?: Contemplations on the Notions of Hostipitality
Whose Land Have I Lit on Now?: Contemplations on the Notions of Hostipitality

Whose Land Have I Lit on Now?
Contemplations on the Notions of Hostipitality

19 May–
24 June 2018

Curated by: Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Elena Agudio, Denise Ryner

a SAVVY Contemporary project in collaboration with Or Gallery (Vancouver) in the framework of the Creative Europe program: 4C's program: from conflict to conviviality through creativity and culture, EU.

Deanna Bowen, 1911 Anti Creek Negro Petition. Photo: Marvin Systermans

Abbas Akhavan, Meriç Algün, Mounira Al Solh, Steeve Bauras, Deanna Bowen, Márcio Carvalho with Ali Al-Fatlawi, Wathiq Al-Ameri and Christian Etongo, Banu Cennetoğlu, Stephanie Comilang, Victor Ehikhamenor, Antje Engelmann, Louis Henderson, Eva Leitolf, Doris Maninger, Sabelo Mlangeni, Emeka Okereke, Neda Saeedi, Wolfgang Tillmans, Ming Wong, Tinofireyi Zhou

Curated by: Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Elena Agudio, Denise Ryner

WHOSE LAND HAVE I LIT ON NOW? Contemplations on the Notions of Hostipitality unfolds through an exhibition, performances, lectures, film screenings and other time-based experiences to deliberate on concepts of hospitality and the triggers of hostility in hospitality. Much is happening today that calls for a reflection on hospitality in Germany, in Europe, and in the world at large. While departing from the national context of Germany, and taking Derrida’s notion of “hostipitality” – that is the presence of hostility in all hospitality and hosting – as a point of commencement, the project is not limited in geography, history, philosophy nor culture to these origins, but rather addresses concepts of hospitality in a global context. By inviting, and being host to, artists, curators, musicians and other thinkers to reflect on the various thought and lived concepts of hospitality, the project creates a space for exchange, mutual respect and learning to pose questions that might instigate further thoughts. In an age of flourishing resentments and antipathy towards all that seems conceptually or physically ‘strange’/ a ‘stranger’, in a time when the historical violence of the guest (as a colonizer) over the host is reiterated and fortified, and in an era that increasingly turns hospitality into a neoliberal commodity, it becomes urgent to reconsider hospitality’s gradients of power.

Review: Right Now (8 August 2018) Contemplations on the Notions of Hospitality by Isabelle Hore-Thorburn

Opinion: SLEEK Magazine (8 June 2018) Why claiming “Art is the New Black” about the Berlin Biennale is both misguided and crass by Eric Otieno

Hostipitality Handout (263.85 KB)

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Savvy Contemporary

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