Hoshi Go Club
constructed situation, mixed materials, book, 2024
The Hoshi Go Club is a constructed situation based on a counterfactual question: what would contemporary art be like today if Marcel Duchamp had played Go instead of chess?
Infiltrated for two months in a bar, the project took the form of a fictional Go club, with Marcel Duchamp as its patron figure. Altered archives were installed (posters, photographs, screenprints...), while the club’s identity spread everywhere: neon signs, coasters, stickers, classifieds ads... A teacher offered free Go lessons every Wednesday and by appointment. Events were organized to activate the project, extending its reflection in other forms and towards new audiences: a literary evening (with texts commissioned from authors who conceptualized the link between Duchamp and Go), an experimental music evening (featuring the first activation of Goban Reunion, a soundboard designed by John Cage for Duchamp), a Go tournament in partnership with the Belgian Go Federation...
An experience of shifting history, audiences, institutions, and intellects, this collection of reflections is compiled in a publication pubished by Editions Extensibles (Fr) with a graphic design by Atelier Choque Le Goff (Fr)
Full presentation pdf : pictures + texts (french)
