Aleksandra Mir

Of course I can have a simple reaction of sympathy and sorrow to destruction. But you also know that you can't have…

— Aleksandra Mir

I'm so extremely well prepared for negative response, I've taken precautions.

— Aleksandra Mir

There are ends, occasionally, with projects. That happens. But they are natural dead ends. It's usually the outside situation that demands an…

— Aleksandra Mir

Of course, I'd welcome protest. Good criticism is hard to find.

— Aleksandra Mir

"Naming Tokyo" kicked off at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris in June, and it's going to travel to various art institutions…

— Aleksandra Mir

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

— Aleksandra Mir

Seeing your work go into storage in an art museum is obviously a tragedy of any cultural product - which doesn't mean…

— Aleksandra Mir

You pick people, and they pick you sometimes. It's especially great to connect with people you think you have nothing in common…

— Aleksandra Mir

In 1989 I came to New York to go to the School of Visual Arts. Then, after two years, I switched over…

— Aleksandra Mir

I find myself doing fieldwork physically, in the tradition of anthropology. I literally go to the opposite end of the world, to…

— Aleksandra Mir

I think the wildest wildlife you can find these days is in Chernobyl, where wolves are running around breeding quite well in…

— Aleksandra Mir

People get upset when Baghdad, the "Cradle of Civilization" is burning, or when the Buddhas in Afghanistan are falling. These are real…

— Aleksandra Mir

I'm very jealous of an era where people were inventing something so beautiful as the Concorde and thinking that's the next step.…

— Aleksandra Mir

I was a lousy academic. I spent most of my time in the cafeteria. But I met fantastic people from all kinds…

— Aleksandra Mir

Dutch beaches were known to me as man-made territories, as part of various land reclamation projects. But I was also interested in…

— Aleksandra Mir

I've made a poster at home. You know the iconic image of Che Guevara, the black and red graphic of his face?…

— Aleksandra Mir

"Hello" is pseudoscience. The only smart way to read it is not to believe in it, not to trust it, or to…

— Aleksandra Mir

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…

— Aleksandra Mir

Stonehenge had an aura but it was also just stone. Then in the sixties, it became a great hedonistic, hippie, druid, rock-n-roll…

— Aleksandra Mir

My purpose isn't to be confrontational. My purpose is to find out about the world and play myself against it to the…

— Aleksandra Mir

National parks, zoos, protected areas, polluted seas - using the whole world as a readymade, I thought about it as a stage…

— Aleksandra Mir

I've gotten all kinds of reactions and it's been used in so many different ways.

— Aleksandra Mir

The Stonehenge proposal got a lot of interesting criticism. One of the best - or worst - said something like, "Go home…

— Aleksandra Mir

I wanted to contribute to the landscape tradition in art. By now I guess we are comfortable with the thought that man…

— Aleksandra Mir

I'm depending on other people to take the work and run. And if they run in so many directions, they sort of…

— Aleksandra Mir