Writings between: taking time: part one of a series of correspondences between Caroline Gausden and Jen Clarke on the politics of hosting and hospitality.

Gausden, Caroline; Clarke, Jennifer

Abstract

In Spring, Caroline and Jen planned to produce and publish a short dialogue for an exhibition by artists Juliane Foronda, Kirsty Russell and Tako Taal, A Spoon is the Safest Vessel, hosted by the Look Again Project space in Aberdeen. Working with Caroline, a Development worker for Programming and Curating at Glasgow Women’s Library (GWL), the artists had made new work in response to GWL’s archive, and the Domestic Science School in the Art and Heritage collection at Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen; taking into consideration the hosting practices of both GWL and Look Again. In response to COVID 19 and the lockdown, the work changed form, finding a place online. The dialogue with Jen, a lecturer at Gray’s School of Art, became an expanded series of letters, that cross formal and informal borders, ‘writings between’ us, and things, marking a moment that has forced us to rethink what it means to be ‘at home’ with one another and in the world.

Citation

GAUSDEN, C. and CLARKE, J. 2020. Writings between: taking time: part one of a series of correspondences between Caroline Gausden and Jen Clarke on the politics of hosting and hospitality. Posted on MAP magazine [online], 58,(September 2020). Available from: https://mapmagazine.co.uk/writings-between-correspondences-on-the-politics-of-hosting-and-hospitality

• Acceptance Date: Sep 1, 2020
• Online Publication Date: Sep 2, 2020
• Publication Date: Sep 30, 2020
• Deposit Date: Sep 10, 2020
• Publicly Available Date: Sep 10, 2020
• Publisher: MAP
• Keywords: Look Again project; Covid; Curating; Hosting practices
• Public URL: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/965236
• Related Public URLs: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/966714; https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/970824