Interviews Volume 2

This is the second volume of interviews from curator Hans Ulrich Obrist’s ongoing infinite conversation.
It contains dialogues with some of the most significant architects, artists, filmmakers, historians, musicians, philosophers and writers from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
The seventy interviews published in this book are taken from an archive containing nearly 2,000 hours of recordings. Arranged by the interviewees’ dates of birth, this collection reveals an intellectual geology of the last one hundred years.
Encyclopedic in scope and intimate in tone, these exchanges produce an array of biographical trajectories, cultural experiments, theoretical adventures, unrealized projects and unanticipated epiphanies.
Artists: Nathalie Sarraute, Albert Hofmann, Czesław Miłosz, Studs Terkel, Helen Levitt, Eric Hobsbawm, Merce Cunningham, Doris Lessing, Ken Adam, Leon Golub, Nancy Spero, Richard Hamilton, Oscar Hansen, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Jesús Rafael Soto, Benoît Mandelbrot, Kazuo Shinohara, Emmett Williams, Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, Balkrishna Doshi, Nicolas Roeg, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Immanuel Wallerstein, Alexander Kluge, Michael Baxandall, Bruce Conner, Yvonne Rainer, Simone Forti, Joan Jonas, Frederic Tuten, John Giorno, Thomas Bayrle, Július Koller, Tony Conrad, Jimmie Durham, Martha Rosler, Annette Messager, AA Bronson, Alberto Garutti, Rodney Graham, Jacques Herzog, François Jullien, Arto Lindsay, David Deutsch, Peter Saville, Ai Weiwei, Michel Houellebecq, Isaac Julien, Jalal Toufic, Susan Hefuna, Amar Kanwar, Konstantin Grcic, Jason Rhoades, -- Björk, Gabriela Fridriksdottir, Tacita Dean, Sarah Morris, Jennifer Allora, Guillermo Calzadilla, Yang Fudong, Pedro Reyes, Paul Chan, Miranda July, Tino Sehgal, Ryan Gander, Shilpa Gupta, Keren Cytter, Oliver Payne, Nick Relph, Luke Fowler, Cao Fei, Terence Koh, Jordan Wolfson, Tris Vonna-Michell