Available for You: The activist art of hospitality and friendship
The essay documents the action-installation Available for You, by the Israeli–Dutch artist duo Gil & Moti, in which they offer their free services to Arab residents of various European cities as a gesture of reconciliation and friendship at an interpersonal level. The encounters with strangers w...
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Cracow Tertium Society for the Promotion of Language Studies
2015-08-01
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| description | The essay documents the action-installation Available for You, by the Israeli–Dutch artist duo Gil & Moti, in which they offer their free services to Arab residents of various European cities as a gesture of reconciliation and friendship at an interpersonal level. The encounters with strangers were documented in diary entries, photos and videos and sketches, presented in this essay. A playful and light-hearted humour provides a means of activism via personalised gestures as well as a means of bringing the quotidian realm into art. |
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| title | Available for You: The activist art of hospitality and friendship |
| title_full | Available for You: The activist art of hospitality and friendship |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Available for You: The activist art of hospitality and friendship |
| title_short | Available for You: The activist art of hospitality and friendship |
| title_sort | available for you the activist art of hospitality and friendship |
| topic | reconciliation, activism, israeli-palestinian conflict, artistic and social engagement, sharing |
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