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Project Title: “Hostipitality and Conviviality:
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December 2022 (conducted in August 2023) Miniatura 6 (the grant of the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education)
The concept of hostipitality was coined by Jacques Derrida to show the interdependence between hospitality and hostility, especially towards strangers. In the 21st century, these strangers are most often migrants or refugees, and hostipitality seems to reflect the ambivalent attitude that host societies have toward newcomers. Hospitality is often temporary, subject to multiple conditions, and often turns into hostility. This kind of experience is often described in the texts of ethnic authors and shown in the works of artists and activists - both immigrants and representatives of subsequent generations already born in a particular country. The aim of the project is to analyze how hostipitality is present in the lives of Latinx in the United States, and how artists and activists who create their works literally on the Mexican-American border fight against exclusionary practices and, as part of conviviality, support the imperative of a dialogue with the Other (who thus ceases to be a stranger) by creating zones of contact in which the multiple histories of the borderland resonate.
