The hotel as a monument materializes the Almanac’s ambition, it is an international site for ideas and exchange. It is where histories blend and cultural distances collapse, exposing adaptive differences and native similarities.
The hotel room is a site of dual qualities. Associated with exploration and cultural voyages, the room is simultaneously alien and isolating, almost claustrophobic at times. To the residency the room stands as the heightened experience of the day-to-day life of an artist; cornered by the costs of material, space, even time – here is where he hasto habitat.
The program is bound by time and space: the selected artists each spend one week in a hotel room, which will be examined as the destination for both living, working, and being, and eventually, a site for learning through sharing.
During the week-short stay, the artist-in-residence is allowed to initiate as many studio-visits as desired, and is obliged to host one open-access event by the end of their tenure.
The gatherings become alternative micro-educations where knowledge is shared, and solidarity may be born. By placing cultural practice inside its infrastructure, the hotel’s exchange value is leveraged beyond its use value.
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