Conflicting Relations was the second collaboration of the 2023 season of Frame Contemporary Art’s Rehearsing Hospitlities.

The programme was co-presented with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics and the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York. Conflicting Relations was a day-long program that brought together artists, curators, and institutions whose practices go beyond hospitality and act as correctives to prescribed host and guest hierarchies, on intimate and infrastructural levels. Indigenous perspectives on matters of hospitality—and acknowledging the various forms of social, cultural, and political inhospitality that Sámi people experience—are critical to the program and the dialogues it fosters.

The design approach here was pretty straightforward–to modify the 2023 version of the Rehearsing Hospitalities visual identity using the colours from Vera List Center’s visual identity. The larger goal was similar to before, to create a connection to the previous editions of the programme as well as to uniquely present the current partnership with VLC. 

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