Tzanelli, R orcid.org/0000-0002-5765-9856 (2018) Schematising hospitality: Ai WeiWei’s activist artwork as a form of dark travel. Mobilities, 13 (4). pp. 520-534. ISSN 1745-0101
Abstract
The article provides a holistic appraisal of activist-artist Ai WeiWei’s work. It argues that, despite its topical innovations and evolution, it continues to be informed by narratives of ‘hospitality’ as an experiential form of engagement with variations of otherness (father, migrant, tourist and refugee). Dividing Ai’s artwork into two overlapping phases of development (national and international/global), it considers the artist’s construction of a cosmopolitan identity with uses of ‘technology’ as embodied and communal property. As Ai’s work on the refuge crisis on Lesbos attests, his (dark) artistic cosmopolitan symbolisations use geo-political imaginaries of justice and hospitality in subsequent projects.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Mobilities on 20 December 2017, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2017.1411817 |
Keywords: | adventure; dark tourism/travel; edgework; global complexity; hospitality; migration; schematisation |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Sociology and Social Policy (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 30 Nov 2017 10:10 |
Last Modified: | 20 Jun 2019 00:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/17450101.2017.1411817 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:124707 |