Urban Artistic Hosting Platform at HaDira

Anat Litwin, Sally Krysztal
Location: Model Apartment

As part of their work at HaDira residency program at the Liebling Haus, artists Anat Litwin and Sally Krysztal will examine the relationship between private and public space, and between the home and the city. This exploration correlates with two temporal contexts: the Scheuers’ historical 1936 apartment and a contemporary residency space within a public center (HaDira). During their stay at the Liebling Haus, they will study the intrinsic potential of the act of hosting and residing in this space on the background of the evolving urban reality, as the home becomes not only a cultural anchor, but also a new public arena for artistic and civil engagement. 

Their residency at HaDira integrates research, performative creation and an ongoing dialogue with the professional and art community. The process will be open to the public both on-site and online, resulting in an exhibition which will be presented at the apartment. This residency is an additional chapter of the Urban Artistic Hosting Platform (UAHP), which focuses on critical practices of creative hosting in the city and on redefining art and artists’ role in shaping urbanism. UAHP is part of Litwin’s doctoral research at the Technion supervised by Prof. Rachel Kallus.

Program Curator: Arch. Sabrina Cegla

Related Events:

Friday
19/03/2021
10:00

Home Tour with artists in residence Anat Litwin and Sally Krysztal

A tour and conversation with artists in residence Anat Litwin and Sally Krystal, the first guests of HaDira - the Residency Program of the Liebling Haus. In a discussion with the residency program curator Sabrina Cegla, they will present the Urban Artistic Hosting Platform (UAHP), their creative process and share their experience of staying in the Scheuer family’s former apartment on the third floor.

Thursday
11/03/2021
20:00

On Holes and Hosting - an Invitation to an interactive evening of game playing and sock mending

Sold Out

An interactive event which includes game playing and domestic skill development, taking place in two parallel rounds. Guests will gather around the table in the dining room to play a new board game in which participants follow a transnational journey of the HomeBase Project while contemplating on critical practices of artistic hosting in the city. Simultaneously guests will convene in the living room to acquire a practical, albeit gradually disappearing, domestic skill - repairing socks, by participating in a sock mending workshop.

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