Skin in the Game

Skin in the Game follows on from the acclaimed fieldworkdiary, The Metabolic Museum. In this new bookClémentine Deliss expands on how artists understand riskand contention both in their work and with regard to historicalcollections. Through a series of compelling conversationsquestions are raised on how to work on colonialcollections through the concept of the 'prototype' as generativeof a multiplicity of non-exclusive interpretations. Thebook includes interviews with leading women artists spanningtwo generations-Ruth Buchanan, Otobong NkangaCollier Schorr, Joëlle Tuerlinckx, and Andrea Zittel-inwhich they discuss that moment of 'skin in the game,'when each of them took the decision to become an artistto enter the Hades of an uncertain existence and theHeaven of aesthetic experiment. What was the prototypethat defined their career and their life's trajectory, that likea revenant returns over the course of an artist's lifetime