ART EXPERIENCE: NYC is starting a series of interviews devoted to today’s socially critical art. Art critics, cura- tors, artists, scholars, and thinkers will be invited to discuss the role of art in contemporary societies. For this issue we are conducting an interview with art crit- ic, curator, performance artist, painter, sculptor, poet, and novelist John Perreault…

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Text: Hans Ulrich Obrist – In Conversation with Julian Assange, Part I

May 9, ’11 8:18 PM

Hans Ulrich Obrist - In Conversation with Julian Assange, Part I

When I first met Julian Assange—thanks to lawyer and Chair of the Contemporary Art Society Mark Stephens and curator/lawyer Daniel McClean, both of the law firm Finers Stephens Innocent—we discussed ideas for various interview formats. Anton Vidokle and I had discussed the idea to conduct an interview with Assange in which questions would be posed not only by me, but also by a number of artists. This seemed only natural considering the extent to which so many artists have been interested in WikiLeaks, and we then invited seven artists and collectives to ask questions over video for the second part of the interview…

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