Unexpected Guest
Subtitle: Art, Writing and Thinking on Hospitality
Publisher: Thames & Hudson, Limited
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781908970039
Subjects: Art, modern, 21st century, exhibitions
Description: Published on the occasion of the Liverpool Biennial 2012, this book addresses the theme of the exhibition: notions of hospitality. Hospitality is the welcome we extend to strangers, an attitude and a code of conduct, as well as a metaphor that encompasses issues of the body, territory, geopolitics, ecology, trade and the hosting of data.