The Hospitality Project: Exploring hospitality as an arts-based praxis to remake relationships of co-production

酒店项目是与布里斯托尔社区合作伙伴（寻求庇护者的尊严、布里斯托尔酒店网络和巴顿山围墙花园项目）合作开展的一项以艺术为基础的研究，该项目将酒店的实践作为棱镜，通过它来解决问题并重新设计合作生产的权力关系。这三个伙伴都致力于与寻求庇护者、移民社区和贫困者建立团结和共同生产的做法。对每个人来说，“好客”既是实践的一部分，也是紧张的关键场所。待客之道意味着分享食物、空间和时间，并承认给予者和接受者之间的平等。然而，给予和接受的角色很快就会沉淀下来，当给予的行为被误解时，冲突就会发生。语言障碍阻碍了清晰的沟通，而在居住环境中，共享物质资源的压力可能会升级为冲突。这三个组织的成员和服务用户也表达了在不同托管环境下对他们的期望的不确定性(例如。在寄宿家庭，在内政部的面试中)，以及如何跨越无形的文化障碍交流“真相”。借鉴PI和Co-Is之前从理论、政治和文化角度与酒店的接触，该项目将通过探索酒店作为一种“实践”来积极调动这种紧张关系。具体来说，我们将研究如何将酒店实践塑造成一种使合作生产的权力关系可见和可转换的工具。这意味着我们要相信好客是社会转型的一种手段，尤其是因为分享食物等做法允许物质和“超越人类”的行为者打断和重新配置社会关系。另一方面，它也意味着认识到酒店业是一个复杂的企业，需要对无数的文化理念进行谈判，并在空间、项目和组织的共同所有权方面做出艰难的情境决策。为了实现这些目标，该项目将围绕一系列名为“桌子”的参与式艺术工作坊的创建进行构建，最终以面向公众的开放活动告终。利用口语艺术家的专业知识，工作坊将围绕传统的接待实践进行共同设计：分享食物，烹饪和创造欢迎的花园空间。在这些背景下，反身性讲故事将为不同位置的参与者提供一种灵活的方式来解决酒店的复杂概念，包括（在训练有素的社区口译员的支持下）语言和文化差异。以艺术为基础的“策略”将用于探索将人们彼此联系起来的背景故事，以及这些故事如何变得开放。最后，工作坊还将用于测试不同的“规则”和“仪式”，以创建共享空间，而不依赖于静态的主人/客人关系。在工作坊结束时，Table工作坊的大多数参与者将参加一个名为“盛宴”的周末活动，在那里参与者将反思已被证明最有效的策略和规则，从而设计一个共同制作的小册子。这本小册子的出版将越来越多地由志愿者同行研究人员管理——来自讲习班的参与者将接受额外的培训——并将使所产生的知识能够传播给其他社区组织和专业团体。开发一个动态的网站，并在项目结束时举办一个合作的公开活动，将使一些公众参与所产生的知识，并将为进一步的研究奠定基础。学术合作伙伴还将以“合作制作的艺术”的学术论文的形式将这些反思写下来。

The Hospitality Project is an arts-based research collaboration with Bristol-based community partners (Dignity for Asylum-Seekers, the Bristol Hospitality Network, and Barton Hill Walled Garden Project) which uses practices of hospitality as a prism through which to problematise and rework the power relations of co-production. The three partners are each committed to building a praxis of solidarity and co-production alongside asylum-seekers, migrant communities and people experiencing destitution. For each, 'hospitality' is both part of this praxis and a key site of tension. Hospitality means sharing food, space and time, and acknowledging the equality between those who give and those who receive. However, roles of giving and receiving can become quickly sedimented, and clashes occur when an act of giving is misunderstood. Linguistic barriers prevent clear communication, while, in residential environments the stress of sharing material resources can escalate into conflict. Members and service-users in the three organisations also articulate uncertainty over what is expected of them in different hosting contexts (eg. in homestay accommodation, in a Home Office interview) and how to communicate 'truth' across cultural barriers that remain invisible. Drawing on the PI and Co-Is' previous engagements with hospitality from theoretical, political, and cultural perspectives this project will actively mobilise such tensions by exploring hospitality as a 'praxis'. Specifically we will investigate how hospitality practices can be fashioned into a vehicle for making the power relationships of co-production visible and transformable. This means placing some faith in hospitality as a means of social transformation - not least because practices like sharing food allow material and 'more-than-human' actors to interrupt and reconfigure social relationships. On the other hand it also means recognising that hospitality is a complicated enterprise, entailing the negotiation of myriad cultural ideas and difficult situational decisions about common ownership of spaces, projects and organisations. To meet these aims, the project will be structured around the creation of a series of participatory arts-based workshops called 'the Table', culminating in an open event for the public. Drawing on the expertise of spoken word artists, the workshops will be co-designed around traditional hospitality practices: sharing food, cooking, and creating welcoming garden spaces. Within these contexts, reflexive storytelling will provide a flexible way for diversely-situated participants to address the complex ideas of hospitality, including (with the support of trained community interpreters) linguistic and cultural differences. Arts-based 'tactics' will be used to explore the background stories which place people in relation to each other, and how such stories may become open to change. Finally, the workshops will also be used to test out different 'rules' and 'rituals' for creating shared spaces without falling back on static host/guest relationships. At the end of the workshops, the majority of the participants in the Table workshops will attend an away weekend called 'the Feast,' where participants will reflect on the tactics and rules which have proven most effective, leading to the devising of a co-produced booklet. The publication of the booklet will be increasingly managed by volunteer peer researchers - participants from the workshops who will receive additional training - and will allow the knowledge produced to be communicated to other community organisations and professional bodies. The development of a dynamic website and the staging of a collaborative open event at the end of the project will allow a number of publics to be engaged by the knowledge produced, and will establish a basis for further research. The academic partners will also write up these reflections in the form of an academic paper on the 'arts of co-production'.