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Christophe Lemaitre
Onderzoeker beeldende kunst / Researcher Fine Art
01.01.11 – 31.12.12
christophe [at] athousandleaves [dot] org
www.athousandleaves.org
Known as the oldest abstract strategy game, Go pits one player against another for the partition of the game board spaces. White and black stones sketch chains that are boundaries as well as force lines intended to develop the largest potential territory.
A game of Go is based on rules arbitrating the life and death of the players’ stones. A stone, or a stones’ chain, lives as long as it preserves itself from the loss of all empty points surrounding it. The only way for a group to live unconditionally is the establishing of two eyes, two empty points inside its walls.
There is some theory on the chain’s drawings, which says there are living and dead shapes. Living shapes are spaces permitting eyesight establishment. Dead shapes are spaces forbidding more than one eye. A third type also exists: unsettled shapes. Depending on who plays first at the vital point of these territories, unsettled shapes will form two eyes, or not.
During 2012, the Jan van Eyck Go Club will be set up within the walls of the Jan van Eyck Academie. The project assumes two aspects. First, playing Go as a studio practice. Second, the Go club is to be an aesthetic club.
