New publication: Rehearsing Hospitalities Companion 2

Rehearsing Hospitalities Companion 2 is the second in a series of readers published by Frame Contemporary Art Finland and Archive Books, which accompany Frame’s five-year public programme Rehearsing Hospitalities. 

The 2020 edition looks into questions of hospitality and access. It is a site for hosting and gathering, for coming together through and in our differences in disconnected times. Featuring 16 contributions, the publication will be released on Tuesday, September 22 in open access-format with hard-copies distributed by Archive Books.

“Now more than ever we need to be consciously reconsidering diverse forms of hospitalities and ways of being together,” say the editors Yvonne Billimore and Jussi Koitela. “With this publication we wanted to look beyond normative and institutionalised understandings of access. How can arts organisations and institutions treat access not as general or universal policy, but instead understand access needs as coming from plural and decentralised ways of knowing and experiencing the world?”
 

Rehearsing Hospitalities Companion 2 comprises contributions from artists, curators and thinkers Camille Auer, Yvonne Billimore, Annet Dekker, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Aimi Hamraie, Hanna Helander, Jussi Koitela, Ali Akbar Mehta, Astrida Neimanis, Marietta Radomska, Marianne Savallampi, Laura Soisalon-Soininen, Minna Tarkka, and Touko Vaahtera. 

Rehearsing Hospitalities Companion 2
Publication date: September 22, 2020
Publishers: Frame Contemporary Art Finland and Archive Books
Softcover, English, 208 pages
ISBN: 978-3-948212-43-8

The publication is released digitally in open access-format with hard-copies distributed by Archive Books.

Series of online readings in September and October

Expanding on the notion of a publication as a site for gathering, the publication launch will take the form of a series of four online reading events with various publication contributors. These events open up a selection of texts and place different writers in dialogue with each other. 

The events will be broadcast live on YouTube. We welcome audiences to register in advance to receive the link by email. If you're not able to attend but would like to be updated when the recording is available, please register to ensure you receive this. Alternatively you can find the YouTube link published on the Frame website on the day of the event here.

Each session welcomes questions and responses from audiences towards the end. Comments and questions can be posted into the comments section on YouTube. All events will be live captioned by artist Iona Roisin and recorded.

Tuesday, September 22, 7pm eest

Rehearsing Hospitalities Companion 2 Launch event with artist Camille Auer, publication editors Yvonne Billimore and Jussi Koitela, and publisher Chiara Figone from Archive Books.

Thursday, September 24, 7pm eest

Rehearsing Hospitalities Companion 2 Readings with Annet Dekker, and Central Park Archives artists Ali Akbar Mehta and Susanna Ånäs.

Friday, October 2, 7pm eest

Rehearsing Hospitalities Companion 2 Readings with Aimi Hamraie, and Marianne Savallampi & Touko Vaahtera.

Thursday, October 8, 7pm eest

Rehearsing Hospitalities Companion 2 Readings with Denise Ferreira da Silva and Astrida Neimanis. (This event is not live but recorded in advance due to time differences.)
 

Rehearsing Hospitalities, Frame Contemporary Art Finland’s public programme for 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.

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. Frame coordinates Finland's participation in the Venice Biennale.
 

More information
Jussi Koitela, Head of Programme
Frame Contemporary Art Finland
jussi.koitela@frame-finland.fi
T +358 50 471 7711

For press copies, please contact:

Laura Boxberg, Head of Communications 
Frame Contemporary Art Finland
laura.boxberg@frame-finland.fi
T +358 44 739 6079