“We could have done one interview together and I’d never have to do another interview again. I’d simply send people a photocopy of our interview and declare, ‘It doesn’t get any better than this. Learn from the master.’”
– Douglas Coupland

The Interview Project represents Hans Ulrich Obrist’s efforts to preserve the traces of intelligence of the last 50 years. Contemporary neuroscientists say that memory is a profoundly dynamic process; not a static archive, but a process. Memory is never the same twice and neither is a conversation—even with the same person.

With over 2,000 hours worth of recordings, many of them on magnetic tape, The Interview Project is the manifestation of a desire to preserve testimonies of those living in the century past whose words have not yet been recorded, the interviews themselves reflecting endless conversations.

Hans Ulrich Obrist interviewed in London, 2010 

© Thomas Crampton