I was a lousy academic. I spent most of my time in the cafeteria. But I met fantastic people from all kinds of fields; law, medicine, history, and they eventually dispersed all over the world to do their fieldwork. I… — Aleksandra Mir Copy Share Image
Of course I can have a simple reaction of sympathy and sorrow to destruction. But you also know that you can't have new things if you don't occasionally destroy the old. That's something you're really not allowed to say because things are often destroyed according to particular power relations so it means taking a stand in those cases, which I… — Aleksandra Mir Copy Share
I'm so extremely well prepared for negative response, I've taken precautions. — Aleksandra Mir Copy Share Image
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… — Aleksandra Mir Copy Share Image
"Naming Tokyo" kicked off at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris in June, and it's going to travel to various art institutions for years… — Aleksandra Mir Copy Share Image
I follow these intimate connections of strangers and, surprise!, end up finding even myself in the work at some point. — Aleksandra Mir Copy Share Image
Seeing your work go into storage in an art museum is obviously a tragedy of any cultural product - which doesn't mean I am… — Aleksandra Mir Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In 1989 I came to New York to go to the School of Visual Arts. Then, after two years, I switched over to the… — Aleksandra Mir Copy Share Image
I find myself doing fieldwork physically, in the tradition of anthropology. I literally go to the opposite end of the world, to the most… — Aleksandra Mir Copy Share Image
I think the wildest wildlife you can find these days is in Chernobyl, where wolves are running around breeding quite well in the nuclear… — Aleksandra Mir Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
