Hoshi Go Club by Marc Buchy
What if Duchamp had played Go instead of chess? This speculative idea, developed by Marc Buchy, is the starting point for a project that unfolds across art, fiction, and social space – from an intervention in a Brussels bar (co-produced by Botanique and Komplot, autumn 2024) to this newly published book by Les Éditions Extensibles.
As described by Marc Buchy in Art Même, the work opens a “zone of grey art” – a real bar hosting a fake-yet-real Go club under the imagined memory of the Go player Marcel Duchamp never was. A true space for sociability, play, exchange, and learning – all central themes in Buchy’s practice.
The book measures 21×29.7 cm, spans 144 pages, and was printed in a limited edition of 500 copies. It was designed by Atelier Choque Le Goff, using Tiny, Tor grotesk, and LL Bradford. It’s not clear if the smaller letters made of dots are from a typeface or custom made.
