Des hôtes: a foreigner, a human, an unexpected visitor

with Milena Bonilla, Kasper Bosmans, Raimundas Malašauskas, Toshie Takeuchi, Luisa Ungar, Trevor Yeung, and Yu Honglei

Curated by Christina Li

The fall program at Spring draws attention to the roles of host and guest. Over the course of three months, the exhibition gradually takes shape through an ongoing event program, artist-devised tours, chocolate readings, post-hypnosis and zoological lectures, where artworks function as prompts for—or evidence of—these gatherings. Traversing the various circumstances where the host-guest status quo is stretched and ruptured, Des hôtes creates a web of relations that magnifies the realities of how we receive and relate to one another.

Related to The Hypnotic Show—his project with Marcos Lutyens that offers a social structure for cognitive and sensual experiments through art and hypnosis—Malašauskas invites you to an event whose name you might forget, but whose feelings you might wish to practice.

*Limited capacity; please RSVP at rsvp@springworkshop.org.

Reception starts at 6pm and the program will start at 7pm sharp. 

As part of Wu Tsang’s research residency at Spring Workshop, this public program is based on Wu’s current project researching and interpreting the life and writings of Chinese revolutionary, feminist and poet Qiu Jin (秋瑾 1875–1907) and her intimate friend, the calligrapher Wu Zhiying (吳芝瑛, 1867-1936). Since poetry and wine were central to their relationship, Wu invites interested participants to join her for a night of drinks and appreciation (“mid-translations”) of Qiu Jin and Wu Zhiying’s poetry.

* Limited capacity; please RSVP at rsvp@springworkshop.org.