The KHOJ Marathon by Hans Ulrich Obrist is a series of twenty minute public interviews with 26 leading intellectuals—thinkers, social philosophers, political analysts and artists.

Post by Aryon Hoselton It was a beautiful sunny morning in Philadelphia. Our “Global Warming Induced Perpetual Summer” became a reality in the unseasonal warmth of the Jan. 1, 2008 Mummers Parade. Jesse Engaard, Tip Flannery and I marched together for the first time as The Vaudevillains New Year’s Brigade. We had spent the preceding [...]

Acropolis Museum
Sunday, 31 October 2010, starts at 16:00

The project takes as its point of departure the impressive international array of marathon-format events which are rooted in the concept of superhuman endeavor, in the seemingly impossible but historically real feat of the Battle of Marathon.

Curated by Serpentine Gallery Co-Director Hans Ulrich Obrist, the Map Marathon will explore all forms of mapping, of data, space and time, multiple dimensions, language and the body.

For the 12th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice, Director and 2010 Pritzker Prize winner Kazuyo Sejima invited Hans Ulrich Obrist to realize the Now Interviews, six days of live public interviews. The Now Interviews will be on view from August 29 – November 21, 2010. 

From August 22 through 27, Obrist developed what he calls [...]

Feet firmly on the ground Ben Eine teamed up with RYCA yesterday to paint these new hoardings in Hackney, East London. With a font comprised entirely of dots with smiley faces it turned into a marathon session with Ben choosing the wording ‘The St…