21 September
Speech Bubble – artforum.com
1 August 2006
Critic Claire Bishop reviews the Rem Koolhaas and Hans Ulrich Obrist's 24 hour Interview Marathon in OMA's Serpentine pavilion.
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In the UK, Channel 4 television is broadcasting a masturbate-a-thon for charity. Some people have drawn unkind parallels between this event and the twenty-four-hour interview marathon hosted by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Rem Koolhaas at the Serpentine Gallery last Friday and Saturday. Sixty-four luminaries were lined up to chew the fat inside the distinguished Dutch architect’s pavilion—a clear display of the duo's pulling prowess and a flamboyant declaration of Obrist’s arrival in London.