Hoshi Go Club

constructed situation, mixed materials, book, 2024

Hoshi Go Club is a constructed situation based on a counterfactual hypothesis: what would have become of contemporary art if Marcel Duchamp had played Go rather than chess?

Installed for several months in a neighborhood bar, the work takes the form of a fictional Go club, with a transformed Duchamp as its patron. Repurposed archives (posters, photographs, silkscreen prints) and objects produced for the occasion (neon sign, beer coasters, stickers, classified ads, etc.) coexist: the club’s identity gradually infiltrates the daily life of the place, blurring the line between fiction and reality. A teacher gives weekly classes, while various events activate the project and shift its focus: public readings, experimental music evenings, and even a tournament organized with the Belgian Go Federation. Here, art history, audiences, and knowledge participate in alternative trajectories.

The entire project is extended in the form of a book published by Éditions Extensibles, bringing together its traces, stories, and speculations.

Full presentation pdf : pictures + texts (french)