URGENCY [fr.
urgence]
Urgency is a state in which time is short.
To be in shortage of time means that one has to react fast or it will
be too late.
Too late is itself closely linked with urgency.
Too late is the necessary outcome of a negative reaction when faced
with an urgency situation.
If artists doesn’t react to urgency situations, it will soon become too
late.
It might—one could fear—be too late for art.
Art is usually too late.
Art as such might even be too late.
That is, art (as a concept) might be conceived as an activity already
too late.
Corresponding to the concept of readymade.
A readymade—we can hear—is, per definition, too late.
Tout-fait.
The urgency of Emergency Rooms comes from the very concept of
introducing time and contemporaneity in the production, circulation and
reception of works of art.
We don’t know what will happen to the concept of art.
But we know that the urgency of the question motives the very concept
of an Emergency Art.