London Dialogues: Serpentine Gallery 24-Hour Interview Marathon

Evolving from Brans Ulrich Obrist''s lifelong interview series and his ongoing collaborations with Rem Koolhaas, the 24-hour Serpentine Gallery Interview Marathon was a unique event in which Koolhaas and Obrist interviewed leading architects, artists, philosophers, writers, filmmakers and theorists from 6pm on 28 July to 6pm on 29 July 2006.The Serpentine Gallery Interview Marathon took place in the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2006, co-designed by Rem Koolhaas and Cecil Balmond, with Arup: the seventh Pavilion in the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion commission, conceived by Julia Peyton Jones in 2000.By creating a context for shared discussion between cultural practitioners, the Gallery and the public, it embodied the aims of both the architect and the Gallery, and acted as live research, exposing the hidden and invisible layers of London.The illustrious group of speakers, and their acutely p

Hans Ulrich Obrist (Zurich, Switzerland, 1968) is a Swiss curator and art critic. He presently serves as the Co-Director, Exhibitions and Programmes and Director of International Projects at the Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gardens, in London. Architect Rem Koolhaas, founded the Office for Metropolitan Architecture in 1975. He graduated at the Architectural Association in London and in 1978 published Delirious New York, a Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan. He heads the work of both OMA and AMO, the conceptual branch of OMA focused on social, economical and technological developments and exploring territories beyond architectural and urban concerns. Rem Koolhaas is a professor at Harvard University