MoBY Hosting

Artists: Ma’an Association, Etgar Magazine, Video 48, Alfred Gallery, The Tel-Aviv Group, ARTPOKER, Societe Realiste, Group Efes (zero), Alina & Jeff Bliumiss, Dotan and Perry, Escape Program, Jazzstylecorner, Public Movement, This is limbo, Incas of Emergency, DAKA Group

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Co Curators: Milana Gitzin-Adiram

Hospitality is both a privilege and an ethical duty, a moral decree and a structured political action that takes place in a defined time and place between two specific players. However, prior to all other aspects, hospitality is a liminal action – the threshold is the condition and site of occurrence for its appearance and for its rapid dissolution. The condition of liminality presumes openness and transition, while always and inherently, a valid border-line that cannot be made to disappear exists within it. These are the same conditions for the formation and existence of hospitality – and action with well-defined time and space, but which is so brief and transitory that it exists mainly through gestures, speech, and action.

Throughout the three months of the exhibition, MoBY hosted an assortment of groups and co-operations from Israel and around the world. Collective action is dynamic and social in nature. It is aimed more toward process and action than the production of a finite artistic object, and its sphere of activity is mostly ex-territorial in relation to the establishment (alternative venues, the street, the World Wide Web).