ISSUE DE SECOURS

20.5 - 19.6.2021
Isabelle Andriessen, Brigham Baker, Isabell Bullerschen, Chloe Delarue, Maya Hottarek, Val Minnig

Conceived as a conversation and an exchange, Issue de secours offers six artistic positions on the irreversible condition of entropy. If we consider Robert Smithson’s definition of entropy “a closed system which eventually deteriorates and starts to break apart and there’s no way that you can really piece it back together again”, than our attempt at survival on this planet can be defined as “entropic bootlegging” - a futile attempt to organise, to reconstruct something that has been broken into a chaos of tiny little pieces. As we drift past all the worrying events of the past years and realise in the words of Bernard Stiegler, that “anthropocene discloses itself as a dead-end trap”, hopefully, we also learn something. And if there is anything our gathered knowledge should help overcome, it is the utter imbalance of the needs of the society and the structures it has created for its own survival. Will this machine we have built for ourselves bring us to a safe landing? How can we imagine the continued alliance of human life and the planet?  Does the emergency exit exist at all?
BINZ39 Foundation, Zurich