by Jon Lackman | 7 September 2006 | Conferences
You think you’ve done some exhausting conference-going? Metropolis reports that Rem Koolhaas and Hans Ulrich Obrist recently “interview[ed] over sixty artists, architects, and writers for 24 hours…straight”: “Known for his energetic and globe-trotting ways, Rem Koolhaas finally admitted to being exhausted … He was speaking in the pavilion he designed on the lawn of London’s Serpentine Gallery. In the twentieth hour of a 24-hour interview marathon session which featured internationally-known artists and intellectuals, he said, ‘Chantal [Mouffe, a political scientist], at this point you have to help us out. We are exhausted’ … the bright and fantastically articulate Mouffe easily fell into talking about agonistic pluralism in democracy and the generation of democratic spaces … A second 24-hour interview marathon will be held from October 13 to 14, with a focus on globalization.”
For more, see Artforum.
