INTERVIEW : Okwui Enwenzor is a Curator, writer, and the Director of Haus der Kunst, Munich He is the founder and an editor of Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art, published by Duke University Press He was Artistic Director of the 2nd Johannesburg Biennale (1997), Documenta 11 in Kassel (2002), the International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville (2006), the 7th Gwangju Biennale (2008), the Paris Triennale (2012) and the 56th Venice Biennale (2015).
SURVEY : Benjamin H.D. Buchloh is the Andrew W Mellon Professor of Modern Art in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University and an editor of October magazine He is the author of Neo-Avantgarde and Culture Industry Essays on European and American Art from 1955 to 1975 (2003) and Formalism and Historicity Models and Methods in Twentieth-Century Art (2015) In 2007, Buchloch was the recipient of the Golden Lion Award at the 2007 Venice Biennale for his contributions to contemporary art.
FOCUS : Laura Hoptman is Curator of Contemporary Art in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art in New York She previously worked as Assistant Curator in MoMA's Department of Drawings from 1995 until 2001, before joining the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh as Curator and Director, of the 54th Carnegie International From 2006 to 2010 she served as Senior Curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York.
ARTIST'S CHOICE To illustrate the close relationship her practice maintains with literature, poetry and non-fiction, Sarah Sze compiled several writings that have inspired her, including a selection of Emily Dickinson's Poems (1924), Jorge Luis Borges' The Analytical Language of John Wilkins (1952) and Bruno Latour's Entering a Risky Territory Space in the Age of Digital Navigation (2009). ARTIST'S WRITINGS : Over the years, Sarah Sze has sustained an open dialogue about her work with critics, curators and other artists Included in this book are excerpts from conversations with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Jeffrey Kastner, Phong Bui, Melissa Chiu and Rirkrit Tiravanija