The essay documents the action-installation Available for You, by the Israeli–Dutch artist duo Gil & Moti, in which they offer their free services to Arab residents of various European cities as a gesture of reconciliation and friendship at an interpersonal level. The encounters with strangers were documented in diary entries, photos and videos and sketches, presented in this essay. A playful and light-hearted humour provides a means of activism via personalised gestures as well as a means of bringing the quotidian realm into art.
Bourriaud, N. (2002). Relational Aesthetics. Translated by S. Pleasance and F. Woods. Paris: Les presses du réel.
Gil & Moti (2009). Available for You. Copenhagen: Kunsthallen Nikolaj and Rotterdam: TENT.
Gil & Moti (2012). Totally Devoted to You. Berlin: Hatje Cantz.
