Somewhere Totally Else

by Hans Ulrich Obrist

Since 2012, Hans Ulrich Obrist (born 1968) has made a weekly contribution to Das Magazin, the weekend supplement of the Swiss Tages-Anzeiger newspaper.

His weekly column offers a survey of contemporary art and current cultural affairs in the style of a diary.

Offering an open and globalized mapping of the culture of the 2010s, Obrist’s writings for Das Magazin are collected in Somewhere Totally Else for the first time. The anthology also serves as a portrait, revealing the personal cosmology of this curious-about-everything global citizen par excellence: Obrist writes on everything from Etel Adnan and Lina Bo Bardi to Fischli/Weiss, from the importance of sharing and interdisciplinary thinking to the legacy of Édouard Glissant.

Somewhere Totally Else collects 100 entries written between 2012 and 2017, with drawings by British artist David Shrigley.

Genres: Art, Nonfiction

200 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2018

About the author

Hans Ulrich Obrist is co-director of the Serpentine Gallery in London. Prior to this, he was Curator of the Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris from 2000 to 2006, as well as curator of Museum in progress, Vienna, from 1993 to 2000. Obrist has co-curated over 250 exhibitions since his first exhibition, the Kitchen show (World Soup) in 1991: including 1st Berlin Biennale, 1998; Utopia Station, 2003; 1st & 2nd Moscow Biennale, 2005 and 2007; Lyon Biennale, 2007; and Indian Highway, 2008-2011.
Obrist is the editor of a series of conversation books published by Walther Koenig. He has also edited the writings of Gerhard Richter, Gilbert & George and Louise Bourgeois. He has contributed to over 200 book projects, his recent publications include A Brief History of Curating, dontstopdontstopdontstopdontstop, The future will be…with M/M (Paris), Interview with Hans-Peter Feldmann, and Ai Wei Wei Speaks, along with two volumes of his selected interviews (Interviews: Vol. 1 & 2). The Marathon series of public events was conceived by Hans Ulrich Obrist in Stuttgart in 2005. The first in the Serpentine series, the Interview Marathon in 2006, involved interviews with leading figures in contemporary culture over 24 hours, conducted by Obrist and architect Rem Koolhaas. This was followed by the Experiment Marathon, conceived by Obrist and artist Olafur Eliasson in 2007, the Manifesto Marathon in 2008, the Poetry Marathon in 2009, Map Marathon in 2010, and the Garden Marathon in 2011.
In 2009, Obrist was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). In March 2011, he was awarded the Bard College Award for Curatorial Excellence.

Reviews

[tea · Rating 3 out of 5]

e vala hvala svim bogovima da sam završila sa čitanjem, pa ja ovo čitam od januara i čini mi se nije mi skoro nešto toliko teško palo da završim, a opšte je mesto praktično da ja skoro pa -sve- razvlačim jer nisam disciplinovana u čitanju, neverovatno prevrćem knjige naglavačke ali uvek sa puno uzbuđenja i uvek ih nosim sa sobom pa makar ih i ne-otvorila ceo dan samo mi je važno da znam da su tu, na dohvat ruke - u rancu, na prozoru, na polici, pored jastuka (bukvalno), pored ili ispod kreveta i tako dalje. valase obrist vukao svuda po stanu, i ne samo mom nego i tuđim, a i po rančevima takođe, i iza kreveta je pao.
nego, hans ulrich obrist - kustos :)))_))) moram da priznam da sam ovom "izložbom" kolumni baš razočarana, svakoj nešto fali, sve deluju isto. prosto čovek kad ga čita zna da ima posla sa belim privilegovanim muškarcem koji vam pošto poto OBJAŠNJAVA umetnost a da ga vi niste ni pitali za to objašnjenje. plus uz to mora da pokaže i koliko on ne samo da poznaje i razume samu suštinu umetnosti nego uz to zna i ama svako treće, čuj mene treće, ma svako ime u svetu umetnosti, i to ne kao hej ja čuo mira ima super radove nego ja miru znam LIČNO, psi su nam išli u isti hotel za pse. mislim, preterujem sad ovde u ovom opisu naravno oprostiću sebi to ali baš to vrišti iz njegovih tekstova. uz to, toliko se ponavlja da to prosto postane ДОСАДНО. uz to, užasava me što su mu svi tekstovi iste ne samo forme, nego gotovo i iste dužine. druže, nema šanse da o svakoj tebi imaš da kažeš samo između lupam sad 2000 i 2173 reči. za neku možda imaš da kažeš i 1780 za drugu 2945, halooooo
doduše, neke ljude sam zapisala po tefterima, da ih čekiram. i ilustracije su divne. zato skromne tri zvezdice

/ side note: obist je svoju prvu izložbu kustosirao sa 23 godine, baš kao i ja svoju prvu izložbu. ne bih baš da budem kao on u smislu te slave koju nosi sa svojim imenom, ali nemam ništa protiv da me ljudi zovu da kustosiram onoliko koliko i njega. možda ga sa godinama (više) zavolim