Public 61 2021 Currencies of Hospital

Editor: SYLVIE FORTIN Hospitality is usually considered a philosophical concept, an ethical concern with juridical implications, a sociopolitical practice … or an industry. This publication shifts the focus to speculate on many of its other (often stealth) manifestations. It mobilizes hospitality—as concept, metaphor, performance, and dissidence—to render its pluripotent agency. Its presence can be detected in practices of walking, gathering, swinging, eating, drinking, playing, partying, and loving. This issue of PUBLIC is also a critical curatorial endeavour that weaves together artists’ projects, fiction, scholarly research, and other indefinable forms to explore some of the unexpected valences of hospitality in modern and contemporary art, cinema, animation, and exhibition making; in architecture, infrastructure, land use, and practices of cohabitation; in kinship and care; and in justice, pedagogy, and reparation.