Gina Rae FosterMetro NYC Adventist Forum

October 17, 2009

Home Welcome Host Guest The Other (Justice)

Prisons, Ruins, Wilderness (Home) Rejection, Hostility, Exile (Welcome) Wardens, Captors, the Homeless (Host) Prisoners, Hostages, the Homeless

(Guest) Strangers, Foreigners, Aliens (The

Other)

Home as Identity Home as Time (space as compressed

time) Home as Territory (space as shared

identity & time)

Biological Space (Womb) Domestic Space (Residence) Military Space (Fortress, Bunker) Hiding Space (“Fort”/Bomb Shelter) Sacred Space

(Church/Temple/Synagogue/Kiva) Burial Space (Grave/Urn/Mausoleum)

Favelas, Slums, Shantytowns Refugee Camps Housing Projects Prisons/Jails Outer Space, Space Shuttles Cyberspace—Internet, Ethernet

Nomads Refugees, Emigrants, Illegal Aliens, Internally

Displaced People (IDPs) The Homeless Serial Residents

Artwork as Dwelling “Attraction” as Welcome Artist as Host Audience as Guest Unfamiliar as Other

What is a work of art? What draws/repels one from an artwork? Who is the artist? Who is the audience? Who doesn’t know? Who is the other?

What creates and disrupts art as dwelling?

How is art both welcoming and hostile? How is the artist both host and guest to

his/her own work? How is the audience both host and

guest to the work of art? Who is the other in art? Are we

implicated in the injustice of those excluded from art in particular? In general?

Obligation Merit Capacity Sufficiency Justice Appreciation Aporia