OKNO – CLOSE ENCOUNTERS: THE VOICES OF KANA - HOSPITALITY
As part of the next edition of OKNO – CLOSE ENCOUNTERS, we would like to invite you to the meeting with Marina Hulia about the book “Dzieci z Dworca Brześć” [Children from the Brest Station] describing the stories of children and mothers who spent months at the Belorussian railway station. The meeting will be followed by the performance "Popytka", directed by Weronika Fibich.
After the performance, we are planning a meeting with artists led by Dorota Kowalewska.
... a stranger is often the one who questions" – as if his/her mere appearance may disturb the peace of domination of ‘homeliness, undermine the order of feeling-at-home, and challenged a blissful state in which everyone and everything rest in their places. As a non-fellow, a Stranger is frequently recognized as a problem. Referring to the concept of "hostipitality" formulated by Jaques Derrida, for many years we have been discussing about the difference between an enemy and a guest, the relationship between a guest and a host. We have been asking about the conditions of hospitality and its limits, as well as about the situation of "being a guest" in culturally foreign spaces. Meeting with women from Chechnya is an important comment to this subject.
OKNO – CLOSE ENCOUNTERS: THE VOICES OF KANA - HOSPITALITY
As part of the next edition of OKNO – CLOSE ENCOUNTERS, we would like to invite you to the meeting with Marina Hulia about the book “Dzieci z Dworca Brześć” [Children from the Brest Station] describing the stories of children and mothers who spent months at the Belorussian railway station. The meeting will be followed by the performance "Popytka", directed by Weronika Fibich.
After the performance, we are planning a meeting with artists led by Dorota Kowalewska.
... a stranger is often the one who questions" – as if his/her mere appearance may disturb the peace of domination of ‘homeliness, undermine the order of feeling-at-home, and challenged a blissful state in which everyone and everything rest in their places. As a non-fellow, a Stranger is frequently recognized as a problem. Referring to the concept of "hostipitality" formulated by Jaques Derrida, for many years we have been discussing about the difference between an enemy and a guest, the relationship between a guest and a host. We have been asking about the conditions of hospitality and its limits, as well as about the situation of "being a guest" in culturally foreign spaces. Meeting with women from Chechnya is an important comment to this subject.