Are you here? Hans Ulrich Obrist. Graphic design : Joanna Starck

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1 Are you here? Hans Ulrich Obrist Compositions of Hans Ulrich Obrist Introduce by Etel Adnan Collection Uncreative Writings Jean Boîte Éditions, Paris, pages Size : 15,3 cm 22,9 cm Supple cover Graphic design : Joanna Starck ISBN Price 24 Release : September 2018 In Are you here?, the ensemble that Hans Ulrich Obrist has just created remains close to a primordial world, it s even what, at first glance, attracts us. Etel Adnan Hans Ulrich Obrist is a marathon runner of daily discussions, conversations and exchanges with artists, architects, scientists, thinkers and writers. The elements of language that he accumulates offers a generic lexicon in which he draws alternately words or expressions that are as many vocal punctuations as exclamations of style. Are you here? compiles for the first time the stamp drawings that Hans Ulrich Obrist has composed for years, sometimes organized in clusters or lists, to flirt with concrete poetry. Sometimes rendered illegible, these leitmotivs come to black almost the whole of the page as a result of performances close to trances. This practice, which can be likened to stereotypy, is an outlet for the author, in which he uses, in the manner of a shaman, the elements of language that are his own. Are you here? is introduced by Etel Adnan, poet and artist, who gives us keys to reading this parallel and yet central practice in the construction of one of the most important curators of our time.

2 Born in 1968 in Zurich (Switzerland), Hans Ulrich Obrist is an art critic, curator, and director of the Serpentine Gallery in London. In 1991, he curated his first exhibition in his own apartment in Switzerland including works by Christian Boltanski and Fischli Weiss. In 1993, he founded the Robert Walser Museum and soon after became a curator at the City of Paris Museum of Modern Art. In 1995, with Christian Boltanski, he curated Take Me I m Yours where visitors were invited to touch and carry the works with them a major exhibition in contemporary creation that was recreated 20 years later at the Monnaie de Paris (2015), at the Jewish Museum in New York (2016), and that continues to be presented worldwide. Curator of over 300 exhibitions (including Do It and Cities on the Move), the Swiss Pavilion of the 14th Venice Biennale of Architecture, the 1st Berlin Biennale, and the 7th Lyon Biennale for Contemporary Art, he has been director of international projects at the Serpentine Gallery since In 2013, Hans Ulrich Obrist founded the 89+ program with Simon Castets, an international multiplatform research project conceived as a cartography of the generation born in 1989 or after. Today, Hans Ulrich Obrist continues to travel the world meeting and conversing with artists, thinkers and scientists. Through these interactions was born the project Conversations, an infinite number of interviews for which he was recognized by the Van Allen Institute who awarded him the New York Prize Senior Fellowship ( ). In 2001, Hans Ulrich Obrist received the CCS Bard Award; in 2009 he was named honorary member of the Royal Institute of British Architects; and in 2015 he received the International Folkwang Prize for his involvement in the arts. Photo Juergen Teller

3 Born in 1925 in Beirut (Lebanon), Etel Adnan is a poet, writer and painter. In Beirut, she was part of the first group of students to study with Gabriel Bounoure at the École des Lettres. She continued her studies of literature and philosophy at the Sorbonne (Paris), and then at the University of California, Berkeley, and Harvard. Between 1958 and 1972, she taught Aesthetics at the Dominican University of California at San Rafael. Multilingual author Etel Adnan writes in French and English and her work is regularly translated into Arabic. Several of her poems have been set to music, notably by Gavin Bryars and Zad Moultaka, and she has also worked with Tania Leon, Henry Treadgill, Annea Lockwood and Samir Odeh-Tamini. Writer and artist, her poetry is reflected in her paintings and pictorial creations. Etel Adnan has been painting since the 1960s, but it wasn t until 2012 that her work gained international recognition with Documenta 13. More than forty exhibitions worldwide have been dedicated to her work. Her recent works were noted at the last (2014) Whitney Museum Biennale in New York and the Mathaf Museum of Modern Art in Qatar dedicated a retrospective to her work in 2014, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist. Photo Hans Ulrich Obrist

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7 Collection Uncreative Writings Uncreative Writings is a collection of conceptual poetry, writing without writing and literary readymades. This collection invites authors and artists to reveal the language in the digital age: its quality, its fragmentation, its visual dimension, its ease of access and its almost unlimited availability. These conceptual writings and experimental texts are the continuation of a secular history: the way ideas are exchanged, commented, selected, reused, recycled, adapted, updated, cited, extracted, duplicated, given, appropriated, disseminated, signed and pirated. The way is open for a literary revolution. Already published a, A Novel by Derek Beaulieu Essay by Gilda Williams ISBN Price : L écriture sans écriture by Kenneth Goldsmith Translated by François Bon ISBN Price : Forthcoming Are you here? by Hans Ulrich Obrist Introduced by Etel Adnan ISBN Price : de l amour by Franck leibovici ISBN Price :

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