The Stonehenge proposal got a lot of interesting criticism. One of the best - or worst - said something like, "Go home to Las Vegas." I think this project could possibly be realized at a very late part of my… — Aleksandra Mir Copy Share Image
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 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… — Aleksandra Mir Copy Share Image
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
