Hans Ulrich Obrist interview in the Süddeutsche Zeitung

Author: Marvin Barnie

This past weekend Süddeutsche Zeitung published a full page interview with curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, who was moderating the "Maps"-panel (based on his still work-in-progress-book "Maps for the 21st century") at DLD10, which you can watch below.

In the interview he spoke about his passion for art and his unique career as curator. He has just recently been voted most influential of the scene by the "Art Review". The conversation also came to DLD and how much Hans Ulrich Obrist enjoyed connecting many different people and many different conversations.

Obrist is of the opinion that his function as a curator is to act as a catalyst, to enable things, to make them possible, to realize them but never to stand in the way. Hans Ulrich Obrist was always trying to put art in its own space, however never isolating it from other disciplines.

The interviewer Eva Karcher also came to speak to Obrist's art marathons that have become as famous as pop concerts. The curator thinks they are so popular because people can escape the continuous time pressure through the "open end" concept of the events. Further he says that the marathons nurse a more and more spread longing for real conversations outside the Web 2.0 - a non-mediatized experience.

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