The gift exercise 

2016 -


In their long-term research project The gift exercise, Willimann/ Arai explore hospitality as a cultural technique in dealing with the „foreign,“ as well as its local and global manifestations. Since 2016, within this framework, they have been developing context-specific settings (Invitations), in which they examine and test the complex role play of guests and hosts from an auto-ethnographic perspective. In doing so, they ask about the interactions, mutual dependencies and replaceability of these roles – and the power relations inscribed in them.