Open Space’s Forum is a yearly programme inviting an emerging guest curator to develop a series of discursive events in London – inaugurating with Of Hosts & Guests, a programme of artist performances, film screenings, talks and workshops.

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The inaugural edition Of Hosts & Guests is curated by Katherine Finerty and runs from Thursday 28 March – Saturday 30 March 2019 across three cultural venues in Bloomsbury, London: Mary Ward House, University College London (UCL), and Pushkin House. Through diverse, site-specific responses to these spaces, six participating artists (Larry Amponsah, Adelaide Damoah, Amartey Golding, Henry Hussey, William Martin, and Nora Silva) will explore ideas of hospitality, hierarchy, ritual, and belonging. Deriving its title from Albert Camus’s 1957 short story L’Hôte, which translates into both ‘the host’ and ‘the guest’, Of Hosts & Guests invites artists and audiences to play with the duality of playing both of these roles. The programme will unfold as a journey through spaces, challenging social structures in pursuit of social connection and asking how we can establish a sense of home and community in the face of contested borders and endangered notions of belonging.