Risquons-Tout: Planetary Artists Venture into Risk, Unpredictability, and Transgression

by Marina Vishmidt, Emanuele Coccia, and Vivian Ziherl

Dirk Snauwaert (Introduction)

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The work of 38 established and emerging artists explore the creative potential of risk-taking and transgression in contemporary life

The unconventional theme underlying the art featured in this book is the struggle between risk-taking and the prediction algorithms that have become a feature of contemporary life. Does the influence of machine intelligence, and the coincident avoidance of risk, homogenize creative thought? These ideas are explored in the work of 38 established and emerging artists in a variety of media including painting, drawing, sculpture, sculpture, video art, computer art, and performance. Featured artists include Joëlle Tuerlinckx, Ed Atkins, Esther Ferrer, Mounira Al Solh, and Shezad Dawoud. The book takes its title from a town on the French-Belgian border with a history as a well-known customs outpost.

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Exhibition Schedule:

WIELS Museum for Contemporary Art Brussels
(September 12, 2020–February 10, 2021)
  • ISBN10 0300257694
  • ISBN13 9780300257694
  • Publish Date 26 January 2021
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Yale University Press