Welcome to my home: Hospitality & the question of art

1. Welcome to my home: Hospitality & the question of art Gina Rae Foster Metro NYC Adventist Forum October 17, 2009

2. Hospitality: The Elements • Home • Welcome • Host • Guest • The Other (Justice)

3. Hospitality: Counter-Elements • Prisons, Ruins, Wilderness (Home) • Rejection, Hostility, Exile (Welcome) • Wardens, Captors, the Homeless (Host) • Prisoners, Hostages, the Homeless (Guest) • Strangers, Foreigners, Aliens (The Other)

4. Home: Dwelling Extended • Home as Identity • Home as Time (space as compressed time) • Home as Territory (space as shared identity & time)

5. Hospitality: Dwelling as Home • Biological Space (Womb) • Domestic Space (Residence) • Military Space (Fortress, Bunker) • Hiding Space (“Fort”/Bomb Shelter) • Sacred Space (Church/Temple/Synagogue/Kiva) • Burial Space (Grave/Urn/Mausoleum)

6. Hospitality: Dwelling Disrupted • Favelas, Slums, Shantytowns • Refugee Camps • Housing Projects • Prisons/Jails • Outer Space, Space Shuttles • Cyberspace—Internet, Ethernet

7. Hospitality: Residency in Question • Nomads • Refugees, Emigrants, Illegal Aliens, Internally Displaced People (IDPs) • The Homeless • Serial Residents

8. Hospitality: Art as Dwelling • Artwork as Dwelling • “Attraction” as Welcome • Artist as Host • Audience as Guest • Unfamiliar as Other

9. Hospitality: Art as Dwelling Disrupted • What is a work of art? • What draws/repels one from an artwork? • Who is the artist? • Who is the audience? • Who doesn’t know? Who is the other?

10. Hospitality & Art: Can Ethics and Creativity Live Together? • What creates and disrupts art as dwelling? • How is art both welcoming and hostile? • How is the artist both host and guest to his/her own work? • How is the audience both host and guest to the work of art? • Who is the other in art? Are we implicated in the injustice of those excluded from art in particular? In general?

11. Hospitality & Art • Obligation • Merit • Capacity • Sufficiency • Justice • Appreciation • Aporia