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 &lcareer&r 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 &lproduction of reality conversations.&r 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 &lprotest against forgetting&r and affirms the sagacity of an artist who told this dontstop curator &ldon’t go&r when he &lcontemplated leaving the art world&r for other fields—<o go beyond the fear of pooling knowledge&r—in lieu of bringing other fields into the (then) hermetic art world.
Interviews by Sophia Krzys Acord, Jean-Max Colard, Robert Fleck, Jefferson Hack, Nav Haq, Noah Horowitz, Brendan McGetrick, Markus Miessen, Ingo Niermann, Paul O’Neill, Philippe Parreno & Alex Poots, Juri Steiner, Gavin Wade, Enrique Walker
