Hans Ulrich Obrist: Interviews, Books, and Projects
JRP|EditionsA Brief History of CuratingBy Hans Ulrich Obrist Part of JRP|Ringer's innovative Documents series, published with Les Presses du Réel and dedicated to critical writings, this publication comprises a unique collection of interviews by Hans Ulrich Obrist mapping the development of the curatorial field--from early independent curators in the 1960s and 70s and the experimental institutional programs developed in Europe and the U.S. through the inception of Documenta and the various biennales and fairs--with pioneering curators Anne D'Harnoncourt, Werner Hoffman, Jean Leering, Franz Meyer, Seth Siegelaub, Walter Zanini, Johannes Cladders, Lucy Lippard, Walter Hopps, Pontus Hulten and Harald Szeemann. Speaking of Szeemann on the occasion of this legendary curator's death in 2005, critic Aaron Schuster summed up, "the image we have of the curator today: the curator-as-artist, a roaming, . . . . Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 200 pgs.
|  Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist.
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Gregory R. Miller & Co.In the Shadow a Shadow: The Work of Joan Jonas One of the most continuously influential figures of the past half century, Joan Jonas was among the first artists to embrace the forms of video, performance and installation. From her beginnings as a sculptor, and her emergence in the New York art and performance scenes of the 1960s and 70s (including the seminal "Vertical Roll" video piece of 1972, in which the titular television malfunction enacted a memorably fractured female identity), up through her six appearances at Documenta and her performance at the Performa 13 biennial, her work has always been surprising, groundbreaking and necessary. This extensively illustrated volume, containing hundreds of full-color photographs, drawings, scripts and diagrams, presents the definitive collection of Jonas' work. The first and authoritative career-spanning monograph . . . . Clth, 9.5 x 12.75 in. / 536 pgs / 840 color.
|  Edited with text by Joan Simon. Text by Joan Jonas, Douglas Crimp, Johanna Burton, Barbara Clausen, Richard Serra, Susan Rothenberg.
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JRP|EditionsYang Fudong: No Snow on the Broken BridgeFilm and Video Installations Though he trained as a painter at the China Academy of Fine Arts, Yang Fudong, one of the most interesting and influential young artists emerging from China today, has always preferred film. His videos and photographs combine and accumulate perspectives, investigating identity through ancient mythology, personal memory and lived experience. His subjects, often in their late 20s and early 30s, seem confused and appear to be hovering between the past and present, or perhaps China's past and present. That split gives them an expectant quality, as if something is going to happen that never quite does. Yang Fudong seeks, through vignettes, a poetics of place and people as an alternative to the politics of power. No Snow on the Broken Bridge . . . . Paperback, 7.5 x 10 in. / 180 pgs / 70 color / 20 b&w.
|  Edited by Ziba de Weck. Text by Hans Ulrich Obrist.
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D.A.P.On Curating: Interviews with Ten International CuratorsBy Carolee Thea On Curating, Carolee Thea's second volume of interviews with ten of today's leading curators, explores the intellectual convictions and personal visions that lay the groundwork for the most prestigious and influential exhibitions in the world today. Among the aesthetic and theoretical issues raised are the relationship between artist and curator, globalism, post-colonialism, capitalism, the future of cultural tourism and the biennial as spectacle or utopian ideal. As Thea notes in her introduction, "the biennial or mega-exhibition--a laboratory for experimentation, investigation and aesthetic liberation--is where the curators' experience and knowledge are tested. As they negotiate venues for artistic expression, intellectual critiques and humanistic concerns in their own societies and others, they are challenged by the certainties and uncertainties of a constantly evolving . . . . Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 144 pgs / 50 color.
|  By Carolee Thea. Edited by Thomas Micchelli. Foreword by Hans Ulrich Obrist.
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JRP|EditionsPhilippe Parreno Philippe Parreno (born 1964) undermines the notion of the discrete, ownable, copyrighted artwork through collaborations with artists such as Douglas Gordon and Pierre Huyghe, performances, dialogue and the cultivation of exhibitions as real-time encounters. This superbly produced monograph, designed by M/M, offers the first substantial inventory of Parreno's work since the late 1980s, covering his multifarious production from film (such as the famous Zidane, a 21st Century Portrait, made with Douglas Gordon, 2006) to spectacle (Il Tempo del Postino, with Hans Ulrich Obrist, 2007). It also includes critical and fictional texts by Maria Lind, Charles Arsčne-Henry, Enrique Juncosa and Simon Critchley, as well as an interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist.
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|  Edited by Christine Macel, Karen Marta. Text by Simon Critchley, Maria Lind, Hans Ulrich Obrist.
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JRP|EditionsJennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla Puerto Rico-based American and Cuban-born Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla are known for their playful, socially-involved, sound-based installations, videos and performances. This well-designed volume presents recent works that investigate how power, militarism and war are encoded into sound.
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JRP|EditionsHans Ulrich Obrist: Battery City: A Post-Olympic Beijing Mini-Marathon On January 31, 2008, Swiss curator, critic and historian Hans Ulrich Obrist conducted a "marathon" of conversations in Beijing, after the example of his famous Serpentine Gallery marathons. This marathon called on artists, cultural producers and media practitioners to discuss the post-Olympic state of the city. Participants included internationally renowned artists Ai Weiwei and Cao Fei, writer and publisher Hung Huang, fashion designer Zhang Da and many others. Topics discussed included everyday life in contemporary Chinese society, the impact of the Olympic Games and the role of the internet in daily life.
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|  Edited and with text by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Hu Fan.
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New Books and Catalogues Releasing This Week
The Museum of Modern Art, New YorkArtists Speak: Iconic Quotes on Modern Art What do artists say? And how do they translate their visions, ideas and intuitions into words? This thoughtfully curated volume assembles a constellation of quotations from some of the world's best-known modern and contemporary artists—including Ruth Asawa, Romare Bearden, Charles and Ray Eames, Henri Matisse, Georgia O'Keeffe, Yoko Ono and Vincent van Gogh, among others. Paired with works of art from the Museum of Modern Art's renowned collection, these statements form a rich dialogue between language and image, offering reflections on art, life and more. Inspired by the popular MoMA Artist Quote Totes and their signature bright color palette, this highly giftable publication is more than just a book of sayings; it offers direct engagement with the artists' philosophies, bringing readers into . . . . Hbk, 6 x 6 in. / 72 pgs / 25 color.
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American Art CataloguesFrancesco Clemente: The Tarots American Art Catalogues presents a fully illustrated 78-card tarot deck by the Italian and American artist Francesco Clemente (born 1952), accompanied by a guidebook written by the artist. Housed in a bespoke lidded box, the deck brings together Clemente’s distinctive visual language with the symbolic structure of the tarot. Begun in 2008, the watercolor and gouache tarot cards depict family and friends, reflecting relationships central to Clemente’s life and creative world. A New York resident since 1981, the artist draws many of his subjects from the city, including in the 22 Major Arcana cards, transforming the traditional tarot into a personal portrait of his community. Figures portrayed include Salman Rushdie, Fran Lebowitz, Jasper Johns, Philip Glass, Diane von Fürstenberg, Colm Tóibín . . . . Boxed, 3 x 5.5 in. / 164 pgs / 78 color cards and booklet.
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The Song CaveCollier Schorr: Writing a LetterAkerman Ballet, Act 1 For many years, American photographer Collier Schorr (born 1963) has been creating a ballet inspired by Chantal Akerman’s film Je, tu, il, elle. Following the film’s themes of transparency, sexuality, shame and love, Schorr has directed a piece consisting of videotaped dances in which she includes herself as a character alongside her fellow dancers. At once intimate and risky, questioning aspects of age, gender and racial norms historically underrepresented in ballet, Schorr tells a story about power, desire and compulsion. In Writing a Letter, Akerman Ballet, Act 1, Schorr has pulled a large collection of film stills from the first act of this ballet. Published as a standalone document of one artist vigorously in conversation with another’s work, it is also an . . . . Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 240 pgs / 180 b&w.
|  Introduction by Peggy Phelan.
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Wakefield PressScorpions Yumiko Kurahashi's 1963 novella Scorpions takes the form of a transcript of a one-sided interview with L following the arrest and institutionalization of her twin brother K. The two have played a role in a series of horrifying deaths culminating in the murder of their mother. Through a first-person narrative that varies in tone from scientifically clinical to darkly humorous, mingling together references to the Bible and Greek mythology, odd bits of dialogue and obtuse descriptions, we learn of K and L's shocking crimes as well as the professional and personal entanglement of L and an older man they call the Red Pig, their mother's former lover. Scorpions remains, after more than half a century, a shockingly transgressive text. It bears . . . . Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 72 pgs.
|  By Yumiko Kurahashi. Introduction and translation by Michael Day.
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Dia Art FoundationArtists on Agnes Martin In this seventh publication from Dia's Artists on Artists series, Vija Celmins, Jennie C. Jones, Jutta Koether and Zoe Leonard reveal profound insights about the American abstract painter and sometime filmmaker Agnes Martin (1912–2004). Celmins shares affinities with Martin's focus on the field and the picture plane while admiring the artist's rigor and consistency. Jones explores the impact of solitude and inspiration on Martin's work while also connecting the grid to sonic notation and patterns. Koether deploys a Derridean analysis to highlight and destabilize contradictions within the artist's work, while Leonard finds poetic and personal revelations in Martin's commitment to repetition. All four contributions issue heartfelt invitations to reapproach the artist's work from new angles. Abundantly illustrated with works from Martin's . . . . Pbk, 5.25 x 7 in. / 120 pgs / 105 color.
|  Edited by Matilde Guidelli-Guidi and Svetlana Kitto with Karen Rasaby. Foreword by Jessica Morgan. Text by Vija Celmins, Jennie C. Jones, Jutta Koether, Zoe Leonard.
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Grand GalleryVintage Reggae Poster ScrapAll You Need Is Dub From early Jamaican sounds to UK developments and contemporary innovations, Vintage Reggae Poster Scrap traces the visual language of reggae and dub and their many subgenres. Featuring hundreds of carefully reproduced images of rare vintage posters, flyers, advertisements and press photographs from the collection of music producer and DJ Yasushi Ide, the book highlights design approaches ranging from raw DIY aesthetics to highly stylized promotional graphics, reflecting the diversity and rebellious energy of the scene. While books focusing on reggae record sleeves are already rare, this poster-centered volume stands apart as a pioneering work, positioning printed ephemera as a vital historical record. This collection of posters is accompanied by a special contribution from Don Letts, DJ and videographer for The Clash, . . . . Pbk, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 256 pgs / 215 color.
|  Edited by Yasushi Ide, Chika Minami. Preface by Don Letts. Afterword by Yasushi Ide.
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FUELPropagandopolisA Century of Propaganda from around the World Do you know what propaganda looks like? A mural showing Saddam Hussein on horseback. A poster featuring Chinese climbers carrying a bust of Mao to the summit of Mount Everest. A film of North Korea’s Kim Jong Un parading an intercontinental ballistic missile. A Pakistani newspaper advertisement calling for Jehad” [sic]. A soldier firing condoms from his gun in a Ugandan AIDS awareness and prevention campaign. A painting depicting American and Soviet crew members of the 1976 Apollo-Soyuz mission riding horseback across the heavens above earth, their respective flags held aloft. Juxtaposing a wide range of material originating from conflicting ideologies, Propagadopolis presents a wealth of shocking, unusual and visually arresting images. Spanning an array of regions worldwide (with a particular focus . . . . Hbk, 5 x 8 in. / 208 pgs / 176 color / 21 b&w.
|  Edited by Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell. Foreword by Robert Peckham. Text by Bradley Davies.
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The Song CaveMy Mother Laughs First published in France in 2013, My Mother Laughs is the final book written by the legendary and beloved Belgian artist and director Chantal Akerman (1950–2015) before her death. A moving and unforgettable memoir, the book delves deeply into one of the central themes and focuses of Akerman’s often autobiographical films: her mother, who was the direct subject of her final film No Home Movie (2015).
With a particular focus on the difficulties Akerman faced in conjunction with the end of her mother’s life, the book combines a matter-of-fact writing style with family photographs and stills from her own films in order to better convey the totality of her experience. Akerman writes: "With pride because I finally believed in my ability to . . . . Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 175 pgs / 22 color / 7 b&w.
|  By Chantal Akerman. Translated by Corina Copp.
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Set Margins’ publicationsDesignerly Ways of KnowingA Working Inventory of Things a Designer Should Know In 2018, the architect and activist Michael Sorkin published the now beloved essay-list "Two Hundred and Fifty Things an Architect Should Know." Struck by the compelling form of this text, Danah Abdulla compiled a version for designers—"a list based on a search for knowledge and a designer’s commitment to making the world a better place," as she writes. Abdulla’s list includes the experience of scents; how critical theory does not account for the colonial experience; the dangers of seeking out simplicity; visual pollution; and how certain emblems and symbols make people feel. It is meant to be approached as a series of prompts to consider, discard or spark a conversation. Danah Abdulla (born 1986) is a Palestinian Canadian designer, educator and researcher. . . . . Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 64 pgs.
|  By Danah Abdulla.
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Hatje CantzImagining the Future Museum: 21 Dialogues with Architects Following on the widely read volume The Future of the Museum: 28 Dialogues, New York–based author and cultural strategy advisor András Szántó turns his attention to architects. The conclusion of The Future of the Museum was that the conceptual structure of art museums has evolved; it follows that the physical structure of the art museum must also change. Szántó’s conversations with architects survey the thinking in the field, engaging architects who have built some of the world’s most iconic institutions and an emerging global generation that is destined to leave its mark on the museum of the future. Architects include: Kunlé Adeyemi (NLÉ), David Adjaye (Adjaye Associates), Paula Zasnicoff Cardoso & Carlos Alberto Maciel (Arquitetos Associados), David Chipperfield (David Chipperfield Architects), Minsuk . . . . Pbk, 4.75 x 7.5 in. / 272 pgs / 60 color.
|  By András Szántó.
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Grand GalleryVintage Jazz Poster Scrap Rather than focusing on record sleeves or album artwork, Vintage Jazz Poster Scrap foregrounds original vintage posters, flyers, booklets and magazines, positioning printed ephemera as a primary medium through which jazz culture was communicated and experienced. Spanning clubs, concerts, festivals and independent promotions, this collection from music producer and DJ Yasushi Ide traces how visual language shaped the public imagination of jazz across decades. Featuring 454 images drawn from the collection of Tokyo-based producer Yasushi Ide, the book reveals the diversity of design approaches—from bold typographic experiments to expressive illustration—reflecting the improvisational spirit and global reach of jazz itself. Conceived as both an art book and a historical archive, this publication will appeal to jazz enthusiasts, designers, collectors and anyone interested . . . . Pbk, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 376 pgs / 454 color.
|  Edited by Yasushi Ide, Chika Minami. Preface by Yasushi Ide. Afterword by Shuya Okino, Takamori Kadoi. Additional contribution by Jeff Mills.
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Grand GalleryJapanese Music Poster Scrap: Rock Spanning 415 full-color pages, the book presents 442 rare and iconic posters and flyers collected over the course of two decades by music producer and DJ Yasushi Ide. The collection spans from the emergence of Japanese rock in the 1960s through approximately 1986, when club music began to enter the cultural landscape. Extending beyond rock and punk to include folk, soul and blues, the selection highlights the diversity of both underground and mainstream music scenes in Japan. Each poster captures not only graphic innovation but also the social atmosphere and cultural energy of its time, revealing moments when music, youth culture and visual expression converged. Curated by Ide, who is widely recognized as a leading figure in Japanese street culture, the . . . . Pbk, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 415 pgs / 442 color.
|  Edited by Yasushi Ide, Chika Minami. Preface by Yasushi Ide. Afterword by Jun Takahashi.
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Grand GalleryVintage Poster Scrap Featuring almost 500 rare posters collected over many years by music producer and DJ Yasushi Ide, Vintage Poster Scrap presents an expansive survey of graphic works connected to music, film, social events and popular culture. The images are not presented as pristine catalog reproductions but rather as posters with visible folds, stains and aging and of varying image quality. This approach reflects the book’s concept as a scrapbook-like archive, emphasizing the physical reality and lived history of these materials. Through this editorial choice, the collection conveys how posters existed in real urban environments—handled, pasted, removed and reused—carrying traces of time and use. Curated through Ide’s distinctive perspective as a cultural participant and observer, Vintage Poster Scrap moves beyond nostalgia to reconsider . . . . Pbk, 5.5 x 8.25 in. / 336 pgs / 464 color.
|  Edited by Yasushi Ide, Chika Minami. Preface by Yasushi Ide. Afterword by Tasuku Watanabe.
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ArquineCDMX GuideSeven Paths through Mexico City This is a complete guidebook through the heart, or many hearts, of Mexico City. Organized by seven routes, each of which is identified by a different color, the book highlights the most culturally relevant spots in the city. All of the routes cross the capital from north to south—taking the Basilica of Guadalupe and the Xochimilco docks as their start and end points—collectively moving through 165 sites that range from major cultural institutions and landmarks to off-the-beaten-path buildings and public spaces. Covering a wide chronological spectrum, from pre-Hispanic sites to 21st-century interventions, the book offers a comprehensive understanding of the city’s urban and architectural evolution. It includes a series of maps to help the reader navigate the city, as well as . . . . Pbk, 4.75 x 8.5 in. / 240 pgs / 235 color.
|  Text by Andrés Semo García.
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Hatje CantzThe Future of the Museum: 28 Dialogues 2020 ushered in a new decade and with it a series of unforeseen events that have reoriented the future. As the coronavirus forced businesses and institutions to close all over the world, museums likewise shuttered. New York–based cultural strategist András Szántó took this abrupt halt of art-world activity as an opportunity to interview 28 of the world’s leading museum directors. Here, each director addresses the potential of art museums as both spaces for change and democracy, and as reflections of larger sociopolitical dilemmas, offering a glimpse into the many possible futures of museums in an accelerated phase of reappraisal and reinvention.
Contributors include: Marion Ackermann (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden), Cecilia Alemani (the High Line, New York), Anton Belov (Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, . . . . Pbk, 4.75 x 7.5 in. / 320 pgs / 30 color.
|  By András Szántó.
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JRP|Editions
A Brief History of Curating
Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist.
Part of JRP|Ringer's innovative Documents series, published with Les Presses du Réel and dedicated to critical writings, this publication comprises a unique collection of interviews by Hans Ulrich Obrist mapping the development of the curatorial field--from early independent curators in the 1960s and 70s and the experimental institutional programs developed in Europe and the U.S. through the inception of Documenta and the various biennales and fairs--with pioneering curators Anne D'Harnoncourt, Werner Hoffman, Jean Leering, Franz Meyer, Seth Siegelaub, Walter Zanini, Johannes Cladders, Lucy Lippard, Walter Hopps, Pontus Hulten and Harald Szeemann. Speaking of Szeemann on the occasion of this legendary curator's ...
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In the Shadow a Shadow: The Work of Joan Jonas
Edited with text by Joan Simon. Text by Joan Jonas, Douglas Crimp, Johanna Burton, Barbara Clausen, Richard Serra, Susan Rothenberg.
One of the most continuously influential figures of the past half century, Joan Jonas was among the first artists to embrace the forms of video, performance and installation. From her beginnings as a sculptor, and her emergence in the New York art and performance scenes of the 1960s and 70s (including the seminal "Vertical Roll" video piece of 1972, in which the titular television malfunction enacted a memorably fractured female identity), up through her six appearances at Documenta and her performance at the Performa 13 biennial, her work has always been surprising, groundbreaking and necessary. This extensively illustrated volume, containing hundreds ...
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Yang Fudong: No Snow on the Broken Bridge
Edited by Ziba de Weck. Text by Hans Ulrich Obrist.
Though he trained as a painter at the China Academy of Fine Arts, Yang Fudong, one of the most interesting and influential young artists emerging from China today, has always preferred film. His videos and photographs combine and accumulate perspectives, investigating identity through ancient mythology, personal memory and lived experience. His subjects, often in their late 20s and early 30s, seem confused and appear to be hovering between the past and present, or perhaps China's past and present. That split gives them an expectant quality, as if something is going to happen that never quite does. Yang Fudong seeks, through vignettes, ...
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On Curating: Interviews with Ten International Curators
By Carolee Thea. Edited by Thomas Micchelli. Foreword by Hans Ulrich Obrist.
On Curating, Carolee Thea's second volume of interviews with ten of today's leading curators, explores the intellectual convictions and personal visions that lay the groundwork for the most prestigious and influential exhibitions in the world today. Among the aesthetic and theoretical issues raised are the relationship between artist and curator, globalism, post-colonialism, capitalism, the future of cultural tourism and the biennial as spectacle or utopian ideal. As Thea notes in her introduction, "the biennial or mega-exhibition--a laboratory for experimentation, investigation and aesthetic liberation--is where the curators' experience and knowledge are tested. As they negotiate venues for artistic expression, intellectual critiques and ...
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Philippe Parreno
Edited by Christine Macel, Karen Marta. Text by Simon Critchley, Maria Lind, Hans Ulrich Obrist.
Philippe Parreno (born 1964) undermines the notion of the discrete, ownable, copyrighted artwork through collaborations with artists such as Douglas Gordon and Pierre Huyghe, performances, dialogue and the cultivation of exhibitions as real-time encounters. This superbly produced monograph, designed by M/M, offers the first substantial inventory of Parreno's work since the late 1980s, covering his multifarious production from film (such as the famous Zidane, a 21st Century Portrait, made with Douglas Gordon, 2006) to spectacle (Il Tempo del Postino, with Hans Ulrich Obrist, 2007). It also includes critical and fictional texts by Maria Lind, Charles Arsčne-Henry, Enrique Juncosa and Simon Critchley, ...
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Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla
Puerto Rico-based American and Cuban-born Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla are known for their playful, socially-involved, sound-based installations, videos and performances. This well-designed volume presents recent works that investigate how power, militarism and war are encoded into sound.
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The Conversation Series
Walther König, KölnHans Ulrich Obrist & Konrad Klapheck: The Conversation SeriesVolume 3 In this German-language-only installment of Hans Ulrich Obrist's Conversation Series, the acclaimed curator-conversationalist speaks with the German Pop Surrealist painter Konrad Klapheck, and includes the German conceptual photographer Hans-Peter Feldmann--who was there to document the afternoon's activities with a series of photographic portraits--in the talk. Writing of Klapheck's psycho-erotic "machine" imagery in a 1994 Art in America review, critic Ken Johnson wrote, "What makes Klapheck's pictures compelling is the way the objects he paints are psycho-erotically animated. His machines…are like primitive totems…monumental, amusingly absurd and sexually suggestive." This volume contains generous photo documentation, with many new paintings depicting offbeat human sexual encounters reproduced in color.
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Walther König, KölnHans Ulrich Obrist & Rem Koolhaas: The Conversation SeriesVolume 4 In this traditional paperback, renowned critic and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist teams up with Dutch avant-garde architect and paradigm-shifting intellectual, Rem Koolhaas, for a discussion of Koolhaas's work in China, his designs for Prada, architecture as metaphor, and the development of urbanism in the slipstream of globalization.
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Walther König, KölnHans Ulrich Obrist & Yona Friedman: The Conversation SeriesVolume 7 People make too much of architecture. I have a running quarrel with architects who overestimate architecture. Reality is at eye-level with people walking down the street. Born in 1923 in Budapest, Hungary, Yona Friedman is widely considered one of the greatest utopian visionary architects of the twentieth century. Currently based in Paris, he is just as much a sociologist as a designer of buildings, more concerned with the way people interact with their environments than monumental statements by an ego-centric creator. In this illuminating talk with The Conversation Series editor Hans Ulrich Obrist, he touches on the needs of the individual in heterogeneous urban societies, past and future projects, utopia, influences and metaphysics, revealing a wise and deeply-animated humanistic intellect. Known . . . . Paperback, 5.5 x 8.5 in. / 126 pgs / 29 b&w.
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Walther König, KölnHans Ulrich Obrist & Gustav Metzger: The Conversation SeriesVol. 16 In volume 16 of The Conversation Series, Hans Ulrich Obrist presents an in-depth exchange with the venerable German-born artist and activist Gustav Metzger, which illuminates the artist's fascinating life and 60-year career. In 1959, Metzger penned a manifesto of Auto-destructive art, which states in part, "Auto-destructive paintings, sculptures and constructions have a lifetime varying from a few moments to 20 years. When the disintegrative process is complete, the work is to be removed from the site and scrapped." In this volume, Metzger talks to Obrist about his past and present association with Auto-destructive art, how he has come to fuse his art practice with his political commitment to human rights and ecology, how he escaped the Holocaust at the age of . . . . Pbk, 5.25 x 8.25 in. / 168 pgs / 41 b&w.
|  Text by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Gustav Metzger.
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Walther König, KölnHans Ulrich Obrist & John Baldessari: The Conversation Series Volume 18 Hans Ulrich Obrist has been a staunch supporter of the Los Angeles maestro of Conceptualism John Baldessari from early on in his career. For these conversations, the artist and curator were joined by, among others, the Uruguayan artist and author Alejandro Cesarco, a friend and previous public interlocutor of Baldessari's. Baldessari himself offers readers insight into the motives and semiotics of his multimedia work and his life as an artist, always expressing himself with precision and with wit. A recurrent topic throughout these discussions is the interaction of text and image (on which so much of Baldessari's work leans), and issues such as the museum as institution, idea archives and unrealized projects, and on his career, exhibitions and retrospectives of the . . . . Pbk, 5.5 x 8.5 in. / 242 pgs / 20 b&w.
|  Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist.
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Walther König, KölnHans Ulrich Obrist & Jeff Koons: The Conversation SeriesVol. 22 Reflecting on 20 years of making art, Jeff Koons talks to Hans Ulrich Obrist about his vocation and its frequently controversial highlights. Koons makes acknowledgement here of determinative influences such as Marcel Duchamp, Salvador Dalí and Andy Warhol, and elucidates his sense of the legacy of Pop art and his own transformations of that legacy. Koons emerges from this volume as a charmingly open and very focused artist, with strong views on the purposes of art today, and advice for practitioners: See everything as an opportunity. Stay focused, then amazing things can happen.” Koons' goals are also inspiringly utopian and appropriate to all forms of art: The journey of art begins with self-acceptance,” he declares at one point, espousing his ideal . . . . Pbk, 5.25 x 8.25 in. / 123 pgs / 28 b&w.
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HANS ULRICH OBRIST
"Curators should be book machines."
HANS ULRICH OBRIST ON THE INTERVIEW PROJECT
"Over the last years I have felt an increasing urgency to do more and more interviews, to make an effort to preserve traces of intelligence from past decades, particularly the 20th century pioneers who are in their 80s or 90s or even older, testimonies of the century past from those who are not online and thus who might fall into oblivion. The Interviews Project acts as "a hedge against the systematic forgetting," that, according to Rem Koolhaas, "hides at the core of the Information Age and which may in fact be its secret agenda." The Project enacts what Eric Hobsbawm has called a "protest against forgetting."
The Institute of the 21st Century is dedicated to preserving and sharing Hans Ulrich Obrist’s Interview Project Archive, advocating the voices of the world’s most important artists and thinkers.