Gathering for Rehearsing Hospitalities

Gathering for Rehearsing Hospitalities is a four-day annual Gathering in September in Helsinki, Finland, connecting artists, curators and other practitioners within the field of contemporary art. This year’s programme bridges hospitality and access with matters of security and safety.

Hospitality, care, safety and security are matters intrinsically 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.

Contributors in the Gathering for Rehearsing Hospitalities autumn 2021 programme include: Panos Balomenos, Karen Barad, Bassam el Baroni, Chloë Bass, Ama Josephine Budge, 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.