At GUTS, a large white curtain transforms hard walls and right angles into a soft, curved environment. This spatial device calls on artists to adapt new creative strategies for its unusual setting. The name draws on idiomatic expressions such as “gut feeling” and “to have guts” — which indicate forms of decision-making that extend beyond cognition into a more visceral, embodied knowledge, as well as courage and a willingness to take risks. It also points to the inside of the body, which is essential yet hidden, and to processes of absorption, exchange and transformation. Animated by osmotic fantasies and resolutely porous and curious, GUTS is an artspace that works across generations, geographies, disciplines and forms of knowledge.
GUTS is made possible by all its participants and by the artists Charlotte Bonjour and Romain Löser.
