Flash Art
It is the interviews with the architects, urbanists, scientists, linguists, philosophers and non-mainstream filmmakers that really energize this book.
Book Description
It is not an exaggeration to write that Hans-Ulrich Obrist is everywhere, has curated everything and has interviewed everyone. If "peripatetic" is the word most overused to describe him, it is not inappropriate. The Swiss-born, everywhere-based curator and head of the Programme Migrateurs at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris has an unstoppable wanderlust and a related symptom: his penchant for interviewing anyone and everyone who piques his curiosity, be they artist, scientist, writer, curator, composer, architect, thinker, etc. Since 1993, Obrist has conducted more than 300 interviews, 75 of which are collected here in a selection that respects the cultural and professional diversity of the interviewees. Each interview is introduced by a short text outlining the biography of the interviewee and giving some contextual information on the recording of the interview. Hans-Ulrich interviews everyone, including Marina Abramovic & Gregory Chaitin / Vito Acconci / John Armleder / JG Ballard / Matthew Barney / Dara Birnbaum / Christian & Luc Boltanski / Stefano Boeri / Daniel Buren / Giancarlo de Carlo / Maurizio Cattelan / Johannes Cladders / Constant / Minerva Cuevas / Giancarlo de Carlo / Jimmie Durham / Olafur Eliasson / Brian Eno / Juan Garcia Esquivel / Yona Friedman / Hans Georg Gadamer / Gilbert and George / Edouard Glissant / Felix Gonzalez-Torres / Dominique Gonzalez Foerster / Douglas Gordon / Dan Graham / Joseph Grigely / Zaha Hadid / Stuart Hall / Thomas Hirschhorn /Carsten Höller / Walter Hopps / Roni Horn / Yong Ping Huang / Pontus Hulten / Pierre Huygue / Arata Isozaki / Toyo Ito / Billy Klüver / Rem Koolhaas / Bul Lee / Ernest Mancoba / Roberto Matta / Cildo Meireles / Jonas Mekas / Mario Merz / Franz Meyer / Santu Mofokeng / Yoko Ono / Gabriel Orozco / Frei Otto / Lygia Pape / Claude Parent / Philippe Parreno / Michelangelo Pistoletto / Cedric Price / Ilya Prigogine / Jacques Ranciere / Gerhard Richter / Pipilotti Rist / Israel Rosenfield / Jean Rouch / Anri Sala / Tino Seghal / Katzuyo Sejima / Seth Siegelaub / Paolo Soleri / Ettore Sottsass / Luc Steels / Rirkrit Tiravanija / Agnès Varda / Robert Venturi & Denise Scott Brown / Franz West / Cerith Wyn Evans / Anton Zeilinger Paperback, 5.5 x 8 in./1000 pgs / 0 color 0 BW0 duotone 0 ~ Item D20264
