RITUAL [fr. rituel]
 
Art is stocked and damped by idiotic rituals
which contemporary art continues to perform.
Vernissage.
Drinks.
Parties.
Invitations.
Group shows.
Projects.
Partners.
Lubrication.
The model is repeating itself with or without drinks & snacks.
Like an automat.
From where do all these rituals stem?
And why are we performing them?
They kill art.
Let’s create other rituals then!
To baptist a work of art in a vernissage is the worst that can happen.
It pushes the art work to the background.
Making the vernissage to appear as the work.
Emergency Room performs a daily baptism of new art works.
The meeting at the passage is made to discuss the content of the work.
The passage is a non-vernissage.
The passage is exactly not closing the work.
The passage is opening the work for discussion.
The passage treats the work as an opinion.
Not as a glossy surface.
Emergency Room wants to destroy old rituals
Emergency Room wants to create new rituals
Emergency Room is a ritual-putsch
Old for new
The rituals in Emergency Room gives safety
(structures)
As the exhibition is unpredictable in Emergency Room
A ritual like The Passage or The Debate give us a breath of security
All this succession of gestures are a mise-en-condition
that gives us security in the middle of the storm
we can say that a format is made of rituals.






   DICTIONARY   by Thierry Geoffroy / Colonel    ( link to portail )