Inaugural Van Alen Institute New York Prize Fellowship Dinner
Senior Fellow Hans Ulrich Obrist: Interviews Project

Featuring Senior Fellow Hans Ulrich Obrist: Interviews Project

October 27, 2007
7:00pm

Van Alen Institute
30 West 22nd Street, 6th Floor
New York, NY 10010
212-924-7000

Since the early 1990's, Hans Ulrich Obrist has conducted 1400 hours of interviews with over 400 artists, scientists, architects, writers, composers and other influential figures in contemporary arts and culture. A central component of his curatorial practice, Obrist's interviews are both rigorously interdisciplinary and publicly engaged. In substance, they seek a deep understanding of the social architecture of the city and its incredibly diverse and overlapping domains of cultural production. In practice - as his conversations perform various and multiple future functions in books, exhibitions, marathons, and other projects - they make public this knowledge, collecting and sharing an ongoing oral history of art and culture bridging the 20th and 21st centuries.

On October 27, 2007, Van Alen Institute hosted its first annual New York Prize Fellowship dinner in honor of the 2007-2008 fellows and inaugural Senior Fellow Hans Ulrich Obrist. The dinner included a special presentation by Obrist and a screening of seleted works from his Interviews Project archive.