The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, in collaboration with Artis, is proud to present
Host & Guest Opening: 2 May 2013 Closing: 30 June 2013
Guest curator: Steven Henry Madoff
An extensive international art event
Dozens of artists and curators from across the globe will come to the Tel Aviv Museum in May and June in order to participate in the extensive project, which includes nine exhibitions, workshops, performances, and other events.
Initiated by Artis and in collaboration with the museum, the project addresses the complex relationships of hosts and guests, including rituals, obligations, tensions, and generosity, as part of the human condition.
The project was curated by guest curator Steven Henry Madoff, an independent curator and critic living in New York, who is the chairman of the Masters in Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts.
The Tel Aviv Museum of Art presents Host & Guest, a program of nine exhibitions, workshops, and events inspired by Immanuel Kant’s 1795 essay, “Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch” and Jacques Derrida’s book, Of Hospitality.
Conceptualized and directed by guest curator Steven Henry Madoff, Host & Guest has been developed by an international team. Paintings, sculptures, drawings, posters, films and videos, photographs, live performance, and public discussions have been assembled for this wide-ranging program.
These curators and artists were invited by Madoff to produce projects: Ana Paul Cohen (Brazil), Dora Garcia (Spain), Hou Hanru (France, U.S., China), Kimsooja (South Korea), Raqs Media Collective (India), Jeffrey Schnapp (U.S.), Joshua Simon (Israel), and David Tartakover (Israel).
Each curator will offer a project where they will host other artists, architects, theorists, and activists, including Asma Agbarieh-Zahalka, Kasper Akhøj, Galia Bar Or, Michal Bar-Or, Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Mabe Bethonico, Angela Detanico and Rafael Lain, Zvi Efrat and Meira Kowalsky, Nir Evron, Tahel Frosh, Giulia Girardello, Dor Guez, Alma Itzhaky, Luciana Kaplun, Miki Kratsman, Daphni Leef, Armin Linke, Renata Lucas, Yotam Marom, Haggai Matar , Iris Meyer, Mattia Pellegrini, Eli Petel, Aldo Piromalli, Roee Rosen, Yehudit Sasportas, Caleb Waldorf, Liu Xiaodong, Noam Yuran, Raphael Zagury-Orly, and Mich’ael Zapruder, among others.
Touching on literature, philosophy, architecture, biology, economics, psychology, personal histories, and local and national conflicts, the curators and artists who are participating in Host & Guest look at the many ways in which we give and take, delight and deceive each other, when the stranger comes to our door and we answer—sometimes voluntarily and sometimes not. What are the rights of the stranger and of the host? Who is the host and who is the guest? As Derrida suggests, it is often the case that the host is the hostage. And so the lines of questioning and narratives unfold from the perspectives of this international team of contributors to Host & Guest.
Steven Henry Madoff
Steven Henry Madoff is an independent curator and art critic based in New York. He has curated internationally, including as a member of Daniel Birnbaum’s team for the 53rd Venice Biennale. He is a contributing editor toModern Painters and ARTnews magazines, and he has served as an art critic for Time magazine and as a frequent contributor to The New York Times and Artforum, among many other publications. His recent book,Art School (Propositions for the 21st Century), has become an international standard in the field. He has taught art history and theory at Yale University’s School of Art and is the founder and chair of the forthcoming Master’s Program in Curatorial Practice at The School of Visual Arts, New York.
The project Host & Guest was made possible thanks to the generosity of ArtTLV foundation and other donors.
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