September 8–11, 2021
Gathering for Rehearsing Hospitalities is a four-day gathering from September 8–11 in Helsinki, Finland and online. The event brings together local and international contemporary art audiences for interactions and dialogues.
This year’s gathering bridges hospitality and access with matters of security and safety. Organised by Frame Contemporary Art Finland, It includes exhibitions at the Finnish Museum of Architecture and Vantaa Art Museum Artsi, discursive and performative events, and a publication.
Hospitality, care, safety and security are entangled, not simply through their definitions and overlapping meanings but as acts, practices, institutions, industries, infrastructures and systems of power. The field of curation has given much attention to thinking-with and practicing matters of hospitality and care; after all, these are foundational aspects of the work of curating.
“With each annual turn, we seek to create relationships between the coming year’s focus and the last. This way, we can continue to add and attend to the questions which arise rather than turning away from them,” programme curators Yvonne Billimore and Jussi Koitela say.
“Security and safety have long been present in museums and arts institutions. Yet, the critical discourse has been lacking, and the emphasis has been more on the protection of objects and infrastructures. But for whom and what is the security offered in arts and culture? Should we become more hospitable and caring towards matters of security and safety?”
Contributors
Contributors in Gathering for Rehearsing Hospitalities include: Panos Balomenos, Karen Barad, Bassam El Baroni, Chloë Bass, Ama Josephine Budge, Viviana Checchia, Forensic Architecture, Elis Hannikainen & Vappu Jalonen, Yolande Zola Zoli van der Heide, Áslat Holmberg, Milla Kallio/FEMMA Planning, Flo Kasearu, Mari Keski-Korsu, Alen Ksoll, Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez & Elena Sorokina/Initiative of Practices and Visions of Radical Care, Kristina Norman, Yates Norton, Nat Raha, Sepideh Rahaa, Annika Rauhala, Shubhangi Singh, Hito Steyerl, Rosario Talevi, Jenni-Juulia Wallinheimo-Heimonen, Eyal Weizman and Eero Yli-Vakkuri.
How to participate
All the events are free and open for everyone to participate. However, due to COVID-19 restrictions, onsite workshops and performances have a limited amount of spaces available, so please register in advance.
Alongside the public programme, Frame will be arranging studio visits, one-to-one meetings and networking opportunities for visiting curators.
New publication
Along with the programme, Frame and Archive Books will publish a new reader. Rehearsing Hospitalities Companion 3 features 13 contributions around matters of security, safety and care. It’s available on Wednesday, September 8.
Publication date: September 8, 2021
Publishers: Frame Contemporary Art Finland and Archive Books
Softcover, English, 190 pages
ISBN: 978-3-948212-78-0
The publication is released digitally in an open-access format with hard copies distributed by Archive Books.
About Rehearsing Hospitalities
Rehearsing Hospitalities, Frame Contemporary Art Finland’s public programme from 2019 to 2023, connects artists, curators and other practitioners in the field of contemporary art and beyond to build up and mediate new practices, understandings and engagements with diverse hospitalities. It fosters critical discourse, pluralistic sharing and collaboration between diverse (artistic) practitioners in contemporary societies.
Gathering for Rehearsing Hospitalities 2021 is co-organised with the Finnish Museum of Architecture and Vantaa Art Museum Artsi and produced in collaboration with additional partners from the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York and IHME Helsinki.
Frame Contemporary Art Finland is an advocate for Finnish contemporary art. Frame supports international initiatives, facilitates professional partnerships, and encourages critical development of the field. In addition, Frame coordinates Finland’s participation in the Venice Biennale.
More information
Jussi Koitela, Head of Programme
Frame Contemporary Art Finland
jussi.koitela [at] frame-finland.fi / T +358 50 471 7711
For press copies of the publication, please contact:
Laura Boxberg, Head of Communications
Frame Contemporary Art Finland
laura.boxberg [at] frame-finland.fi / T +358 44 739 6079
