Talk with Adam Caruso, Architect, London and Uli Sigg, Art Collector and ehemaliger Schweizer Botschafter Peking, Mauensee | Moderation: Dr. Martino Stierli, Art Historian, Basel | Introduction: Reto Geiser, Architektur Dialoge Basel
Kunstmuseum Basel | Lecture Hall | Picassoplatz Entrance
In parallel with improvements to the road and tram infrastructure at the Escher Wyss Platz viaduct, the architects Caruso St John and artist Thomas Demand will build two structures referring to the “Stubborn Nail” situation in China. Transplanted from Chongqing to Zurich, is this planned doppelganger an act of reconstruction or resistance, archaeology or abstraction, documentation or fiction, copy or quotation? Uli Sigg and Adam Caruso will discuss the cultural definition of quotation in the specific context of contemporary China.