Jenny Eagleton

To connect what cannot be connected, this is exactly what my work as an artist is.

— Thomas Hischhorn in interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist Interviews. (I think)

EXCERPT FROM AN EDITED INTERVIEW BETWEEN HANS ULRICH OBRIST, SANDRA ANTELO-SUAREZ, AND MEL BOCHNER

ryanbarone:

HANS ULRICH OBRIST
So it involved a high degree of self-reflexivity?

MEL BOCHNER
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HANS ULRICH OBRIST
Can I ask you one last question? There is one question that I ask in all the interviews and it’s a question about un-built roads, about unrealized projects. Could you tell us about your favorite unrealized projects, and by that I mean projects which are utopic, projects which are maybe too big or too small to have been realized, forgotten, self-censored, censored by others?

MEL BOCHNER
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HANS ULRICH OBRIST
That’s beautiful.

Curators are not producers of events… it involves obsessing over something— it takes time. An exhibition is part of the process, not the product

— (rough quote from) Hans Ulrich Obrist

Q: “Have you made your map?”
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HUO: “Yes, but I’m too embarrassed to show it—

There could be nothing more wrong than a curator making a map and putting it at the beginning of a book— if I were to make a map, it would go at the very end of the book.”

— Hans Ulrich Obrist in a conference on his book/exhibition-in-process Maps for the 21st Century

“Many maps have actually to do with memory and mapping the past— it’s a negotiation between the past, present and future…

Maps give us reality— a reality that exceeds our vision…

We are always mapping that which is not visible to our senses now…

Maps invent new realities…

[They’re] always going beyond the space of the present.”

— Hans Ulrich Obrist on his book/exhibition-in-process Maps for the 21st Century

Institutions should have a limited lifespan— like 20 years

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Hans Ulrich Obrist

(talking about the Serpentine gallery)