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Published on the occasion of the Liverpool Biennial 2012, this
book addresses the theme of the exhibition: notions of hospitality.
Hospitality is the welcome we extend to strangers, an attitude and
a code of conduct, as well as a metaphor that encompasses issues of
the body, territory, geopolitics, ecology, trade and the hosting of
data. In this era of unprecedented movement of both people and
knowledge, different cultures of hospitality jostle for space as
never before. Where lies the threshold between host and guest, if
there is one at all, and who has the power to decide? How does our
view of hospitality change when seen through the lens of time? The
ethics underlying these questions are shaped by traditions that
date back to the classical world and the ancient cultures of
central Asia and the Indian sub-continent. In more recent times,
philosophers from Kant to Derrida have provided influential comment
on the subject, establishing the terms of a discourse that now
spans myriad disciplines, among them anthropology, sociology,
economics, philosophy, theology, politics and art. Responding to
this growing academic and cultural interest, The Unexpected Guest
is the first publication to bring together an anthology of key
historical and contemporary texts with new contributions by writers
from a variety of fields, alongside artists responses commissioned
especially for the book. Uniquely, it introduces time as a window
onto hospitality, offering fresh perspectives and new thinking on
the issue.
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