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The future of knowledge A letter from Hans Ulrich Obrist to Hou Hanru Dear HHR, Thanks so much for your compelling letter. Immanuel Wallerstein is indeed – besides Edouard Glissant – a wonderful toolbox for our times. I’ve recently beenView More >

Obama, Crisis, Two Realities and Change A letter from Hou Hanru to Hans Ulrich Obrist By crisis in a historical system I shall mean not conjunctural difficulties within a system but a structural strain so great that the only possibleView More >

Parallel realities A letter from Hans Ulrich Obrist to Hou Hanru Dear HHR Thanks so much for your letter. I fully agree with you and Toni Negri that the new resistance is ‘in-between’. Your reference to Toni, whom we visitedView More >

In-between, and in small numbers A letter from Hou Hanru to Hans Ulrich Obrist Dear HUO, Thanks very much for your recent thoughts on the Nanomuseum. These are issues so important to our search for new forms of space forView More >

The Nanomuseum A letter from Hans Ulrich Obrist to Hou Hanru Dear Hanru, Thanks so much for your inspiring text on Pelin and public art. Today I want to write about some issues related to my most recent exhibition, Everstill,View More >

The Future of Public Art A letter from Hou Hanru to Hans Ulrich Obrist Dear HUO, Thanks much for your inspiring survey on the future of art. In response I’d like to share with you excerpts from an interview addressingView More >

The Future of Art A letter from Hans Ulrich Obrist to Hou Hanru Dear Hanru Daniel Birnbaum, a close colleague and friend of mine, and one of the sharpest of our present generation of art writers, had this to sayView More >

Reinventing Biennials A letter from Hou Hanru to Hans Ulrich Obrist Dear HUO Nice to see you again at the Venice Biennale opening earlier this month: as intense and inspiring as usual, one of those ‘hurricane moments’ we always have!View More >

Exhibition-making in a transnational context A letter from Hans Ulrich Obrist to Hou Hanru Dear HHR Your text on Adel and Ming also made me think of the transnational condition of art. As Simryn Gill once told us at theView More >

Yan Pei Ming and Adel Abdessemed A letter from Hou Hanru to Hans Ulrich Obrist Dear HUO, I’d like to return to the reflections on Paul Chan’s work that you sent me two issues back. I’m keen to exchange viewsView More >

Interview Marathon A letter from Hans Ulrich Obrist to Hou Hanru Dear Hanru I hope your move to San Francisco went well and am very curious to hear more about your new city. I am in London now and toView More >