État des Lieux #2
Urban Rumors

ÉTAT DES LIEUX
To mark our tenth anniversary in the year 2000 and everyone’s entry into the Third Millennium, we decided to give the Centre of contemporary art an even greater opening. The outcome is a special program called État des lieux, aiming to set up an inventory of the various aspects of current art.

Going against established practice, we decided to invite guest curators and ask them to take stock of what is happening in art now, with a view to describing the present and outlining the future. The project broke down into four events-exhibitions – four inventories – spread out over the entire year.

These État des lieux, events or exhibitions circumscribed in space and time, bring together artists in the broad meaning of the term, who focus on the concerns of the guest curators. Their job is to establish lines of communication between the various forms of thought for which art is the medium. Each of these presentations is a statement by the curator, expressive of his or her convictions.

URBAN RUMOURS – HANS-ULRICH OBRIST
For this project, Hans-Ulrich Obrist uses a not very current form of presentation, even new, based on the urban rumors. The interventions of the artists will first of all be conveyed by the rumor, to reach us later on in a more concrete form. The rumor will continuously influence our appropriation of the works until their final perception. Does the rumor form an integral part of the work?