Peter Fischli & David Weiss

Robert Fleck (Survey) is the Director of the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg. He has been working as an art critic and curator since 1981. From 1991-93 he was the Federal Curator for Austrian contemporary art, and in 1998 he co-curated Manifesta 2. From 2000-03 he was Director of ERBAN Fine Art School in Nantes. His books include Die Muhl-Kommune (2003) and Yves Klein (2004). Author's Residence: Hamburg, Germany Beate Soentgen (Interview) is Professor of Art History at Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany. From 2003-4 she was Laurenz-Professor of Contemporary Art at Basel University, Switzerland, and from 1998-2002, Assistant Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Braunschweig, Germany. She has published several books and contributed to many catalogues and publications, including Texte zur Kunst and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Her post-doctorate focuses on 'Representation, Rhetoric, Knowledge'. Author's Residence: Bochum, Germany Arthur C. Danto (Focus) is Johnsonian Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Columbia University, New York, and the art critic for The Nation. His books include Beyond the Brillo Box: The Visual Arts in Post Historical Perspective and Encounters (1992), and Reflections: Art in the Historical Present (1992), which won the Book Critics Circle Award. Author's Residence: New York The Artist's Choice by Swiss novelist Robert Walser (1878-1956), on the pleasure of walking, mirrors the artists' own rambling meanderings, while the Artist's Writings include unpublished scripts from early video works, and selections from Will Happiness Find Me? (2003). Artists' Residence: Zurich