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
I wouldn't say the anthropologists were making art, but they were definitely justifying their practices with very personal reasoning, passion, and they were also experimenting with form. There was a sense of trying to be as sincere as possible, whether… — 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
