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Hospitality is usually considered a philosophical concept with legal implications, an ethical concern,  a social/political practice鈥� or an industry. Developed by guest curator Sylvie Fortin, I don鈥檛 know you like that: The Bodywork of Hospitality shifts the focus to consider the stealth work of hospitality on our conceptual, material, and political understanding of bodies.

Bringing together new and recent works by 17 international artists, I don鈥檛 know you like that: The Bodywork of Hospitality invites us to consider how hospitality has simultaneously defined and confined what we think bodies are, what we imagine they can do, how we feel they relate, whom we believe they can encounter, and ultimately, how they engage with each other and in the world. How has the covert reach of hospitality led to the very notion of a 鈥渉uman鈥� body, fleshing out its outlines by setting it apart from other throbbing constellations of life forms? How has hospitality鈥檚 invisible labor sustained the extractive intersection of race, gender, class, religion, and value? To what prison-house of flesh and mind has hospitality鈥檚 dance of welcoming and exclusion confined us? Can hospitality, in turn, yield other choreographies?

The exhibition explores these questions in space, weaving together open-ended experiential connections between works in a wide range of media, including painting, sculpture, textile, installation, and performance as well as lens- and time-based practices. I don鈥檛 know you like that: The Bodywork of Hospitality addresses several themes, including xeno|transplantation, implantation, and transfusion; neural adaptation and the phantom limb; bacteria and the microbiome; viruses, parasites, symbionts, and holobionts; mechanical and chemical prostheses; imaging technologies; architectures of corporeal hospitality; dreams and dreamwork; magic and the 鈥渕iraculous鈥� work of relics, spirits, and energies.