Poetics of hospitality – Chapter III “Common Ground” · A performance evening

Curated by Sungyoon Ahn (Alumni Master en Pratiques de l'Exposition - CARE) & Marion Adrian
Participating artists : Barbara Boon (Henri Cuelenaere, Kiara Govaert, Luka Mariën, Quinten Tessenaere), Pierre-Yves Delannoy, Alice Giuliani & Camilla Strandhagen (étudiantes Cursus Espace Urbain - ISAC), Wiktoria Synak (Alumni Cursus Photographie), Mary Szydłowska. 

Poetics of hospitality* is an artistic and curatorial reflection conceived as a series in three chapters addressing the notion of hospitality and the unspoken rules that underlie this universally-shared custom. The word hospitality in and of itself – derived from the Latin word hospes, which means both ‘host’- the one who receives – and ‘guest’ – the one who is received – invokes the complexity of the host-hosted relationship. 
Departing from the form of the pavilion, a transitional structure which challenges the concepts of property, territoriality and borders, Poetics of hospitality invites artists to question their link to this space as potential guests or hosts.