Both artist book and guide to the works presented at the Okayama Art Summit 2019 convened by
Pierre Huyghe as artistic director. Participating artists included Matthew Barney Tino Sehgal
Tarek Atoui Pamela Rosenkranz and others. The publication "If the Snake" guides you through
the 20 exhibiting artists and collaborative projects behind the Okayama Art Summit 2019
convened by Pierre Huyghe as artistic director. The book distinguishes itself as an artist book
with concept text and images chosen by Pierre Huyghe allowing the reader to experience the
exhibition. It is an entity a being-milieu affecting the city through invisible presences
different intelligent forms chemical biological and algorithmic processes. Each feature
within this situated entity has inherently dynamic qualities that due to the conditions of
their co-presence endlessly grow as particular and contingent modes of continuity.
