Hans Ulrich Obrist and Klaus Biesenbach on 14 Rooms

For the group exhibition 14 Rooms in Basel (Switzerland), the curators Klaus Biesenbach and Hans Ulrich Obrist invited fourteen international artists to each activate a room, exploring the relationship between space, time, and physicality with an artwork whose "material" is the human being. 14 Rooms was the latest installment of a series of Live Art exhibitions conceived by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Klaus Biesenbach. Originally commissioned as 11 Rooms by Manchester International Festival, the International Arts Festival Ruhrtriennale 2012-2014 and Manchester Art Gallery, the project was shown as 11 Rooms at Manchester International Festival in July 2011, as 12 Rooms at the International Arts Festival Ruhrtriennale 2012-2014 and as 13 Rooms by Kaldor Public Art Projects at Pier 2/3 in Sydney's Walsh Bay in April 2013. For each edition, the artists list partially changed. 14 Rooms was presented by Fondation Beyeler, Art Basel, and Theater Basel.

In this video, Biesenbach and Obrist talk about live and performance art, the concept of this exhibition series, the original idea, the concept of the show, and how it evolved over the years. The video above is an excerpt, the complete interview is available on our website:

Klaus Biesenbach is Director of MoMA PS1 and Chief Curator at Large at The Museum of Modern Art; Hans Ulrich Obrist is Co-director of Exhibitions and Programmes and Director of International Projects at the Serpentine Gallery

Hans Ulrich Obrist and Klaus Biesenbach Talk About 14 Rooms Live Art Exhibition. 14 Rooms Live Art Exhibition. Messe Basel, Hall 3, Basel (Switzerland), June 12, 2014.

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