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Forum and Function
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Artforum
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September 1, 2008
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MARTIN HERBERT ON "EXPERIMENT MARATHON REYKJAVÃK"
INTRODUCING "EXPERIMENT MARATHON REYKJAVÃK," a two-day event that took place this past May in the Hafnarhús, the Icelandic capital's contemporary art museum, artist Olafur Eliasson described the occasion as "a parallel parliament that includes disagreement, a parallel Western democracy." Presented to a near-capacity audience, this alternative legislature was about to become manifest in the form of thirty-six fifteen-minute-long presentations from artists, architects, scientists, and theoreticians. First, however, Eliasson's collaborator in organizing the event, curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, reframed this ostentatious description, ...