This Way Round Please!

Harald Szeemann [for the occassion of Expo.02 / MONEY AND VALUE / THE LAST TABOO]

or my selected paragraphs and highlights here [for the occassion of Fair Enough]

Swiss Banking

The Bias of the World: Curating After Szeemann & Hopps
David Levi Strauss

http://www.ecolemagasin.com/session16/spip.php?article33

Now, if I assert that the last revolutionary avant-garde that defied its time took place in the sixties (beuys, Baselitz, Serra, Merz, and many others), then that is not only because they are still the most important contemporary artists today ... but because there are still no equivalents to their revolutionary gestures and works ... and they are still not outdated. (H.S. 130-132)

Perhaps they were not outdated, but with their wanting to move history forward by revolutionary gestures and works, they had become strangers to a generation that wanted to liberate itself from the future by liberating itself from the past and, most immediately, laid libidinous claim to the present. (H-J.M., 132)

That's the beauty about it: all utopia fail. For me, failure is a poetic dimension of art.

- Harald Szeemann (2001)

Halfway, I left by myself; halfway, I was made to leave - as is often the case in life.
-Harald Szeemann (H-J.M.,p.108)

1969: {Szeemann} Resignation as the director of the Kunsthalle Bern after the commission rejected a planned Beuys exhibition by vote (H-J.M.,p.26)

Dear Dr. Szeemann: An anonymous benefactor has promised us an endowment of several hundredweights of dynamite. As soon as we can pick up the gift, we shall drive it to your place in Bern, and we sincerely hope you will be at home [in the Kunsthalle] when we try out the artistic qualities of the powder.

From Hans-Joachim Mueller, Harald Szeemann - Exhibition Maker (Hatje Cantz, 2006) , p.14.