Research Catalog

Title

Risquons-tout : Contemporary artists venture into risk, unpredictability and transgression / editor: Dirk Snauwaert ; texts: Emanuele Coccia, Dirk Snauwaert, Marina Vishmidt and Vivian Ziherl.

Publication

• Brussel : WIELS : Mercatorfonds, 2020.
• New Haven ; London : Distributed outside Benelux by Yale University Press
• ©2020

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Additional Authors

• Coccia, Emanuele,
• Snauwaert, Dirk,
• Vishmidt, Marina,
• Wiels (Gallery : Brussels, Belgium), host institution, publisher.
• Ziherl, Vivian,

Description

271 pages : illustrations (some colour); 24 cm

Summary

'Risquons-Tout' is an ambitious, thematic group exhibition that explores the potential of transgression and unpredictability. It examines how art challenges the homogenisation of thought in the now infamous echo chambers of our overcrowded info-sphere. 'Risquons-Tout' presents some of the most innovative and influential artists and authors from the Eurocore region, which extends between Amsterdam, Paris, Cologne, Düsseldorf and London, with Brussels at its centre. The title is borrowed from a place located on the Belgian-French border, a real yet liminal space of transition, passage and informal exchanges, notably smuggling. The invited artists negotiate different dynamics of bridging, passing, translating and transgressing. In doing so they burst the safe bubbles generated by prediction algorithms, designed to avoid any risk, whether intellectual, financial, emotional or physical. The exhibition's geographic and political scope addresses today's global connectivity, trans-national circulation and diasporic movements. 'Risquons-Tout' will occupy the entire WIELS building and range out into neighbouring exhibition and performance spaces. It will present the works of 38 internationally recognised or emerging artists. The exhibition proposes a rich array of practices that defy easy categorisation. 'Risquons-Tout' will also include a performative section and an Open School that will serve as a laboratory for artists and scholars to draw upon questions of risk, unpredictability and borders through a range of alternative methods for the transmission of knowledge. Exhibition: WIELS, Brussels, Belgium (12.09.2020 - 10.01.2021).

Subject

• Art, European > 21st century > Exhibitions
• Transgression (Ethics) in art > Exhibitions

Note

• Catalogue of an exhibition held at WIELS, Brussels, 12 September 2020 through 10 January 2021.

ISBN

• 9789462302587
• 9462302588
• 9780300257694
• 0300257694

LCCN

2020942715

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries