Hans Ulrich Obrist: ‘Everything I do is somehow connected to velocity’

Swiss curator Hans Ulrich Obrist talks and travels incessantly, barely sleeps and never cooks. He’s far too busy keeping London’s Serpentine gallery at the pinnacle of conceptual art with his eccentric brand of intellectualismHans Ulrich Obrist, curator extraordinaire, likes to say that he models himself on the Russian impresario Sergei Diaghilev, the general idea being that he is someone who brings great artists together so that wondrous things might happen. But while this may well be true