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Felix Guattari (1930-92) was a French psychoanalyst and political activist who was a central figure
in the events of May 1968. Best known for his collaborations with the philosopher Gilles
Deleuze, Capitalisme et schizophrenie. 1. L'anti-Oedipe (1972; Anti-Oedipus, 1983); lI. Mille
plateaux (1980; A TllOusand Plateaus, 1987), and Qu'est-ce que /a philosophie?, 1991; What is
Philosophy?, 1996), he developed his own social, psychoanalytic and ecologically based theories
published in C1Jaosmose (1992; Chaosmosis, 1995), Chaosophy (1995) and Soft Subversions (1996).
Thomas Hirschhorn is a Swiss-born artist based in Paris, whose anti-aesthetic assemblages,
monuments, altars and ldosks, using low-grade everyday materials, invite a questioning of the
place of art in community and the contemporary status of the monument. Major projects
include Bataille Monument, Documenta 11, Kassel (2002), Musee Precaire A/binet, Laboratoires
d'Aubervilliers (2004), and Utopia, Utopia, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2005).
Carsten Holler is a Belgian-born artist based in Sweden. With a doctorate in phytopathology, he uses
his scientific training to make investigatory installations and artworks that actively engage
vieWers' perceptions and physiological reactions to environments and stimuli. Major solo
exhibitions include Sanatorium, Kunst-Werke, Berlin (1999), New World, Moderna Museet,
Stockholm (1999), Fondazione Prada, Milan (2000) and One Day One Day, Fargfabriken,
Stockholm (2003).
Allan Kaprow (1927-2006) was an American artist best known as the inventor of the Happening in
1959, a term he abandoned in 1967, after which he explored other participatOlY models. The
range of his early 1960s works is documented in his Assemblages, Environments and Happenings
(1966); his writings are coHected in Essays on the Bluning of Art and Life (1993). An important
early group show was Environments, Situations, Spaces, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York
(1961). Retrospectives include Haus der Kunst, Munich (2006).
Lars Bang Larsen is a Danish critic and curator based in Frankfurt am Main and Copenhagen. A
contributor to journals such as Documents sur ['art.frieze and Artforum, he co-curated Momentum
- Nordic Festival of Contemporary Art (1998), Fundamentalisms of the New Order
(Charlottenberg, 2002), The Invisible lnsurrection ofa Million Minds (Bilbao, 2005) and Populism
(Vilnius, Oslo, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, 2005).
Jean-Luc Nancy is a French philosopher among whose central reference points are the ideas of
Georges Batail!e, Maurice Blanchot, Jacques Derrida and Friedrich Nietzsche. His key works
include Le TItre de la Lettre (with Phllippe Lacoue-Labarthe, 1973; Tile Title of the Letter: A Reading
of Lacan, 1992), Le communaute desoeuvree (1986; The lnoperative Community, 1991 ), Le retrait du
politique (with Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, 1997; Retreating the Political, 1997) and £tre singlliier
p/wie/ (2000; Being Singular Plural, 2000).
Molly Nesbit is Professor of Art at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, and has also taught at
the University of Callfornia, Berkeley, and Barnard ColJege, Columbia University. A contributing
editor of Artforum, she is the author of Atget's Seven Albums (1992) and Their Common Sense
(2000). She was a co-curator of Utopia Station, Venice Biennale (2003).
Hans Ulrich Gbrist is a Swiss curator who is Co-Director of Exhibitions and Programmes at the
Serpentine Gallery, London. From 1993 to 2005 he ran the 'Migrateurs' programme at the Musee
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