Moving interventions: Curating at large

Abstract

Fascinated by questions of curating, interdisciplinary and experimental art exhibitions, the function of the museum and the gallery, globalization, cultural memory, the visual and the non-visual, and the process of collaboration itself, the Swiss curator Hans-Ulrich Obrist is best known for the exhibitions he has organized in Europe, North America, Japan, and elsewhere, including 'Cities on the Move', 'Laboratorium', and 'Do-it'. As well as curating, organizing and facilitating exhibitions in more traditional venues, Obrist has also coordinated many other events that have taken place in unorthodox spaces such as in houses, monasteries, libraries, an aeroplane and a hotel. Here Obrist speaks with Vivian Rehberg about these and other things. Towards the end of their conversation, they are joined by the Italian urban planner and architect Stefano Boeri who, along with Rem Koolhaas and Sanford Kwinter, co-curated 'Mutations' with Hans-Ulrich Obrist. Copyright © 2003 Sage Publications.