Obrist, Hans Ulrich,
Everything you always wanted to know about curating* : *but were afraid to ask / Hans Ulrich Obrist ; editor, April Elizabeth Lamm ; foreword by Tino Sehgal ; afterword by Yona Friedman.
Everything you ever wanted to know about Hans Ulrich Obrist but were afraid to ask has been asked by the sixteen practitioners in this book. Spanning the beginning of his "career" as a young curator in his Zurich kitchen to his time most recently as the Co-Director of Exhibitions and Programs, and Director of International Projects at the Serpentine Gallery in London, the book is a "production of reality conversations." It undertakes the impossible: pinning down this peripatetic curator, attempting to map his psychogeography so that silences may be transcribed. In a sense, it organizes a "protest against forgetting" and affirms the sagacity of an artist who told this dontstop curator "don't go" when he "contemplated leaving the art world" for other fields--"to go beyond the fear of pooling knowledge"--in lieu of bringing other fields into the (then) hermetic art world.
Contributors
Jean-Max Colard, Robert Fleck, Jefferson Hack, Nav Haq, Noah Horowitz, Sophia Krzys Acord, Brendan McGetrick, Markus Miessen, Ingo Niermann, Paul O'Neill, Philippe Parreno & Alex Poots, Juri Steiner, Gavin Wade, Enrique Walker
Interviewer into an interviewee / Before and after / The future is a dog / The postman rings-- / A mad dinner in Reagan's war room / The enemies are those audio guides / Something is missing / I was born in the studio of Fischli/Weiss / The importance of being in the kitchen / A protest against forgetting / Can exhibitions be collected? / Taxi, Paris, 8-10 p.m. / It's alive / Labomatic / If it's Tuesday / April Lamm -- Tino Sehgal -- with Enrique Walker (excerpts) -- with Markus Miessen --The elephant trunk in Dubai / with Ingo Niermann -- with Philippe Parreno and Alex Poots -- with Brendan McGetrick -- with Jefferson Hack -- with Juri Steiner -- with Nav Haq -- with Markus Miessen -- with Gavin Wade -- with Noah Horowitz -- with Sophia Krzys Acord -- with Paul O'Neill -- with Jean-Max Colard -- with Robert Fleck -- Yona Friedman. Foreword / Afterword /
Various people interview art curator and critic Hans Ulrich Obrist about his life and work.
9781933128252
Art museum curators--Interviews.
Art--Exhibitions.
700 / OBR 2011
Everything you always wanted to know about curating* : *but were afraid to ask / Hans Ulrich Obrist ; editor, April Elizabeth Lamm ; foreword by Tino Sehgal ; afterword by Yona Friedman.
Everything you ever wanted to know about Hans Ulrich Obrist but were afraid to ask has been asked by the sixteen practitioners in this book. Spanning the beginning of his "career" as a young curator in his Zurich kitchen to his time most recently as the Co-Director of Exhibitions and Programs, and Director of International Projects at the Serpentine Gallery in London, the book is a "production of reality conversations." It undertakes the impossible: pinning down this peripatetic curator, attempting to map his psychogeography so that silences may be transcribed. In a sense, it organizes a "protest against forgetting" and affirms the sagacity of an artist who told this dontstop curator "don't go" when he "contemplated leaving the art world" for other fields--"to go beyond the fear of pooling knowledge"--in lieu of bringing other fields into the (then) hermetic art world.
Contributors
Jean-Max Colard, Robert Fleck, Jefferson Hack, Nav Haq, Noah Horowitz, Sophia Krzys Acord, Brendan McGetrick, Markus Miessen, Ingo Niermann, Paul O'Neill, Philippe Parreno & Alex Poots, Juri Steiner, Gavin Wade, Enrique Walker
Interviewer into an interviewee / Before and after / The future is a dog / The postman rings-- / A mad dinner in Reagan's war room / The enemies are those audio guides / Something is missing / I was born in the studio of Fischli/Weiss / The importance of being in the kitchen / A protest against forgetting / Can exhibitions be collected? / Taxi, Paris, 8-10 p.m. / It's alive / Labomatic / If it's Tuesday / April Lamm -- Tino Sehgal -- with Enrique Walker (excerpts) -- with Markus Miessen --The elephant trunk in Dubai / with Ingo Niermann -- with Philippe Parreno and Alex Poots -- with Brendan McGetrick -- with Jefferson Hack -- with Juri Steiner -- with Nav Haq -- with Markus Miessen -- with Gavin Wade -- with Noah Horowitz -- with Sophia Krzys Acord -- with Paul O'Neill -- with Jean-Max Colard -- with Robert Fleck -- Yona Friedman. Foreword / Afterword /
Various people interview art curator and critic Hans Ulrich Obrist about his life and work.
9781933128252
Art museum curators--Interviews.
Art--Exhibitions.
700 / OBR 2011
