Available for You:
Available for You:
The activist art of hospitality and friendship
Author(s): Gil & Moti Gil & MotiSubject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Sociology of Art
Published by: Krakowskie Towarzystwo Popularyzowania Wiedzy o Komunikacji Językowej Tertium
Keywords: reconciliation; activism; Israeli-Palestinian conflict; artistic and social engagement; sharing;
Summary/Abstract: The essay documents the action-installation Available for You, by the Israeli–Dutch artist duo Gil & Moti, in which they offer their free services to Arab residents of various European cities as a gesture of reconciliation and friendship at an interpersonal level. The encounters with strangers were documented in diary entries, photos and videos and sketches, presented in this essay. A playful and light-hearted humour provides a means of activism via personalised gestures as well as a means of bringing the quotidian realm into art.
Journal: The European Journal of Humour Research
- Issue Year: 3/2015
- Issue No: 2/3
- Page Range: 102-118
- Page Count: 17
- Language: English