Rio Wolta

92 Questions for an Artist

A Book of Questions for the Art World

“Who is the first person you show a finished work to?” “How much chaos is there in your work?” “How do you maintain your curiosity?” “What scares you in your working life?” “Do you think your work needs to be explained?” “What is your most common mistake?”

The composer, musician, and director Rio Wolta (b. Zurich, 1988; lives and works in Zurich) has written a book of questions that invites the reader to a dialogue about creativity and the conditions that sustain it. 92 Questions for an Artist is a pocket-size questionnaire for creative minds across disciplines—written in Shanghai, Tbilisi, and Zurich and during a time of polycrisis (Adam Tooze), when nothing has stayed the way it was and global political events have turned the art world, too, upside down: a time, that is to say, that has brought back fundamental concerns with fresh urgency and that challenges us to ask more probing questions if we want to understand.