Hans Ulrich Obrist
Hans Ulrich Obrist: Interviews, Volume 2
Charles Arsene-Henry (Editor), Shumon Basar (Editor), Karen Marta (Editor), Hans Ulrich Obrist (Contributor)
Publisher: Charta
ISBN: 8881587319 DDC: 701 Edition: Paperback; 2010-02-28
"To make and effort to preserve traces of intelligence from past decades" p.8
"The future is built out of fragments of the past"
"To be contemporary means to resist the homogenisation of time, through ruptures and discontinuities"
The only recurrent question in all of my interviews is "What is your unrealised project?"
The Interview Project acts as a hedge against the systematic forgetting that...hides at the core of the Information Ageand which may in fact be its secret agenda." Rem Koolhaas
p. 18 Douglas Coupland´s advice..... no tolerance for boring questions, for re-answering a qustion i know i´ve addressed many times before... after 20 minutes the questions get boring...
getting to the essence of a person
interview with Nathaliie Sarrautte p.26
HUO Roland Barthes has said that to be modern means what is no longer possible.
[read the philosophy books from G Horizon]
interview with Albert Hofmann
p.39 Advice to a young artist...
To somehow contribute. To stay with what is alive, with nature. Nature is alive and is here to open one´s eyes. I believe that great art somehow opens our eyes - those are great artworks. I don´t think that art which aims to access the technical world can make people happy.
Eric Hobssawm p.91
Globalisation fits with almost everything except that there is no tendency for globalisation to work in politics. On the contrary, if anything it´s nation states or groupings like Europe which are the effective historic agents in politics.
Merce Cunningham p.99
I do a little drawing for a few minutes every morning. A little bird or little animal or something.
p.105
Since we can´t have silence, we can´t really say that we know it.
p.106
Gyorgi Kepes "to go beyond the fear of pooling knowledge"
on Black Mountain College ... "The school was like that; people did things that they weren´t used to doing." p.107
p.109
"I could have said no, but if you say "no" that´s the end of it, whereas if you say "yes" you might find something."
Richard Hamilton p.155
"Art has been subject to the influence of gigantism. Things have to be big."
Jimmie Durham
p.473
"money is one of the things we invented. We didn´t invent art. We were just monkeys and art happened to us as we evolved; the same with music and language. Our first great invention was money and we still don´t know what the hell it is. We only know that we use it to speak to ourselves and to each other."
" and then you get to the room where there´s a big El Greco and you see that even a painting can be art."
