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Aleksandra Mir Quotes

Of course, I’d welcome protest. Good criticism is hard to find Picture Quote #1

Of course, I’d welcome protest. Good criticism is hard to find Picture Quote #1

I’ve gotten all kinds of reactions and it’s been used in so many different ways Picture Quote #1

I wanted to contribute to the landscape tradition in art. By now I guess we are comfortable with the thought that man has been everywhere or affected everything in nature Picture Quote #1

I’m depending on other people to take the work and run. And if they run in so many directions, they sort of cancel each other out. So the meaning is always open Picture Quote #1

There are ends, occasionally, with projects. That happens. But they are natural dead ends. It’s usually the outside situation that demands an ending. I never really settle for one Picture Quote #1

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I think the wildest wildlife you can find these days is in Chernobyl, where wolves are running around breeding quite well in the nuclear disaster zones Picture Quote #1

People get upset when Baghdad, the Cradle of Civilization is burning, or when the Buddhas in Afghanistan are falling. These are real concerns Picture Quote #1

Seeing your work go into storage in an art museum is obviously a tragedy of any cultural product - which doesn’t mean I am anti-institutional Picture Quote #1

The space program caused so much future-thinking in culture. People who couldn’t go to the Moon were building space-fantasy chairs and corsets and hairdos and anything that they could put their hands on Picture Quote #1

Stonehenge had an aura but it was also just stone. Then in the sixties, it became a great hedonistic, hippie, druid, rock-n-roll party site. There are amazing pictures of people up on the stones going wild and that’s the image I recreated for my model of the project: full access to everyone. I even invented a Stonehenge soccer team that uses spaces between the stones as goals Picture Quote #1

Seeing your work go into storage in an art museum is obviously a tragedy of any cultural product - which doesn’t mean I am anti-institutional Picture Quote #1

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The moment right now, it’s a tragically regressive time we live in, you know. We just grounded the Concorde. Where’s the future? We’ve lost the future Picture Quote #1

National parks, zoos, protected areas, polluted seas - using the whole world as a readymade, I thought about it as a stage set. To activate a stage set you need a drama, an actor to offset it Picture Quote #1

I think the wildest wildlife you can find these days is in Chernobyl, where wolves are running around breeding quite well in the nuclear disaster zones Picture Quote #1

In 1989 I came to New York to go to the School of Visual Arts. Then, after two years, I switched over to the New School for Social Research and did cultural anthropology in the graduate school there Picture Quote #1

You pick people, and they pick you sometimes. It’s especially great to connect with people you think you have nothing in common with Picture Quote #1

I’m depending on other people to take the work and run. And if they run in so many directions, they sort of cancel each other out. So the meaning is always open Picture Quote #1

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My purpose isn’t to be confrontational. My purpose is to find out about the world and play myself against it to the extent that it is even conceivable Picture Quote #1

I think the optimal artwork is in constant circulation with the world around itself Picture Quote #1

There are ends, occasionally, with projects. That happens. But they are natural dead ends. It’s usually the outside situation that demands an ending. I never really settle for one Picture Quote #1

I follow these intimate connections of strangers and, surprise!, end up finding even myself in the work at some point Picture Quote #1

In a way I am saying the nation-state doesn’t exist, borders don’t exist, you can try going anywhere. It is a kind of pre-Internet consensus I always had in me Picture Quote #1

I try to make that tension almost stupidly overt in my projects, almost ridiculously so. I keep coming back to the same obvious points again and again Picture Quote #1

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Really the moment I decided I wanted to do art seriously, I left art school. I wanted to be with people who were interested in the same things I was: popular culture Picture Quote #1

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Of course, I’d welcome protest. Good criticism is hard to find. (Aleksandra Mir Quotes) Of course, I’d welcome protest. Good criticism is hard to find (Aleksandra Mir Quotes) I’ve gotten all kinds of reactions and it’s been used in so many different ways (Aleksandra Mir Quotes) I wanted to contribute to the landscape tradition in art. By now I guess we are comfortable with the thought that man has been everywhere or affected everything in nature (Aleksandra Mir Quotes) I’m depending on other people to take the work and run. And if they run in so many directions, they sort of cancel each other out. So the meaning is always open. (Aleksandra Mir Quotes) There are ends, occasionally, with projects. That happens. But they are natural dead ends. It’s usually the outside situation that demands an ending. I never really settle for one. (Aleksandra Mir Quotes) I think the wildest wildlife you can find these days is in Chernobyl, where wolves are running around breeding quite well in the nuclear disaster zones. (Aleksandra Mir Quotes) People get upset when Baghdad, the Cradle of Civilization is burning, or when the Buddhas in Afghanistan are falling. These are real concerns. (Aleksandra Mir Quotes) Seeing your work go into storage in an art museum is obviously a tragedy of any cultural product - which doesn’t mean I am anti-institutional. (Aleksandra Mir Quotes) The space program caused so much future-thinking in culture. People who couldn’t go to the Moon were building space-fantasy chairs and corsets and hairdos and anything that they could put their hands on (Aleksandra Mir Quotes) Stonehenge had an aura but it was also just stone. Then in the sixties, it became a great hedonistic, hippie, druid, rock-n-roll party site. There are amazing pictures of people up on the stones going wild and that’s the image I recreated for my model of the project: full access to everyone. I even invented a Stonehenge soccer team that uses spaces between the stones as goals (Aleksandra Mir Quotes) Seeing your work go into storage in an art museum is obviously a tragedy of any cultural product - which doesn’t mean I am anti-institutional (Aleksandra Mir Quotes) The moment right now, it’s a tragically regressive time we live in, you know. We just grounded the Concorde. Where’s the future? We’ve lost the future (Aleksandra Mir Quotes) National parks, zoos, protected areas, polluted seas - using the whole world as a readymade, I thought about it as a stage set. To activate a stage set you need a drama, an actor to offset it (Aleksandra Mir Quotes) I think the wildest wildlife you can find these days is in Chernobyl, where wolves are running around breeding quite well in the nuclear disaster zones (Aleksandra Mir Quotes) In 1989 I came to New York to go to the School of Visual Arts. Then, after two years, I switched over to the New School for Social Research and did cultural anthropology in the graduate school there (Aleksandra Mir Quotes) You pick people, and they pick you sometimes. It’s especially great to connect with people you think you have nothing in common with (Aleksandra Mir Quotes) I’m depending on other people to take the work and run. And if they run in so many directions, they sort of cancel each other out. So the meaning is always open (Aleksandra Mir Quotes) My purpose isn’t to be confrontational. My purpose is to find out about the world and play myself against it to the extent that it is even conceivable (Aleksandra Mir Quotes) I think the optimal artwork is in constant circulation with the world around itself (Aleksandra Mir Quotes) There are ends, occasionally, with projects. That happens. But they are natural dead ends. It’s usually the outside situation that demands an ending. I never really settle for one (Aleksandra Mir Quotes) I follow these intimate connections of strangers and, surprise!, end up finding even myself in the work at some point (Aleksandra Mir Quotes) In a way I am saying the nation-state doesn’t exist, borders don’t exist, you can try going anywhere. It is a kind of pre-Internet consensus I always had in me (Aleksandra Mir Quotes) I try to make that tension almost stupidly overt in my projects, almost ridiculously so. I keep coming back to the same obvious points again and again (Aleksandra Mir Quotes) Really the moment I decided I wanted to do art seriously, I left art school. I wanted to be with people who were interested in the same things I was: popular culture (Aleksandra Mir Quotes)