Winter 2021 Exhibition Opening Reception

724 South 12th Street,Omaha NE 68102

09 December, 2021

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Join us for the opening of "I don’t know you like that: The Bodywork of Hospitality" with the exhibition’s curator + exhibiting artists Join us to celebrate the opening of I don’t know you like that: The Bodywork of Hospitality with the exhibition’s curator and a number of exhibiting artists! RSVPs are requested. Proof of COVID-19 vaccination or negative COVID-19 test is required. Read more about our COVID Safety Policy here. Have you ever considered the interplay between the body and hospitality? Ever wondered how hospitality might be fleshed out or embodied? Developed for Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts by 2019-2021 Curator-in-Residence Sylvie Fortin, this ambitious group exhibition brings together the works of 18 contemporary artists to explore corporeal hospitality. Hospitality is usually considered a philosophical concept with juridical implications, an ethical concern, or a social/political practice. This group exhibition shifts the focus to consider the stealth work of hospitality on our conceptual, physical, political, and historical understanding of bodies. In the process, it reveals a storied genealogy that points to the extractive intersection of race, gender, class, religion, and value. I don’t know you like that: The Bodywork of Hospitality excavates this legacy and imagines other more-than-human hospitable modalities. EXHIBITING ARTISTS Ingrid Bachmann, Crystal Z Campbell, Jean-Charles de Quillacq, Heather Dewey-Hagborg, Flis Holland, Oliver Husain, Stephanie Dinkins, Celina Eceiza, Adham Faramawy, Mounir Fatmi, Pedro Neves Marques, Rodney McMillian, Bridget Moser, Berenice Olmedo, Kerstin Schroedinger, Jenna Sutela, Ana Torfs, and Francis Upritchard Image: Adham Faramay, Skin Flick (still), 2019. Video, 13:30 seconds. Courtesy of the artist. I don’t know you like that: The Bodywork of Hospitality and its related public programs are supported, in part, by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Canada Council for the Arts, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Humanities Nebraska, Institut français-Paris, Nebraska Arts Council and Nebraska Cultural Endowment, Omaha Steaks, and UNO Medical Humanities/Ted Kooser Center for Health Humanities. Bemis Center facilitates the creation, presentation, and understanding of contemporary art through an international residency program, exhibitions, and educational programs.