Skin in the Game: Conversations on Risk and Contention (Hatje Cantz Text) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3775756132 ISBN 13: 9783775756136

Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2024

Synopsis

No Going Back

Skin in the Game follows on from the acclaimed fieldwork diary, The Metabolic Museum. In this new book written in a conversational style, Clémentine Deliss expands on how artists today understand the creativity to be found in historical research collections. Questions are raised on how to work with contentious collections, the law from the perspective of Indigenous artists, and the concept of the “prototype” that defines an artist’s career. Deliss speaks with leading women artists―Ruth Buchanan, Otobong Nkanga, Collier Schorr, Rosemarie Trockel, Joëlle Tuerlincx, and Andrea Zittel―, about their moment of “skin in the game,” when they knew there was no going back, and that art practice would become their Hades and paradise in one. What was the prototype that defined their practice and that like a revenant returns over the course of an artist’s lifetime?

About this title

About the Author

Clémentine Deliss is an independent curator whose practice crosses the borders of contemporary art, critical anthropology and curatorial experimentation. She is internationally recognized for her seminal work on African modernism, interventionist practices, and the publishing organ Metronome. She is Honorary Global Humanities Professor of History of Art at the University of Cambridge, and Associate Curator at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin.

From the Back Cover

Skin in the Game follows on from the acclaimed fieldwork
diary, The Metabolic Museum. In this new book,
Clémentine Deliss expands on how artists understand risk
and contention both in their work and with regard to historical
collections. Through a series of compelling conversations,
questions are raised on how to work on colonial
collections through the concept of the "prototype" as generative
of a multiplicity of non-exclusive interpretations. The
book includes interviews with leading women artists spanning
two generations-Ruth Buchanan, Otobong Nkanga,
Collier Schorr, Joëlle Tuerlinckx, and Andrea Zittel-in
which they discuss that moment of "skin in the game,"
when each of them took the decision to become an artist,
to enter the Hades of an uncertain existence and the
Heaven of aesthetic experiment. What was the prototype
that defined their career and their life's trajectory, that like
a revenant returns over the course of an artist's lifetime?CLÉMENTINE DELISS (*1960, London) is an independent curator whose practice crosses the borders of contemporary art, critical anthropology and curatorial experimentation. She is internationally recognized for her seminal work on the Post-Ethnographic, on African modernism, and for her interventionist practices in art. She is Honorary Global Humanities Professor of History of Art at the University of Cambridge, and Associate Curator at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3775756132
• ISBN 13: 9783775756136
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 244