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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.
Aleksandra Mir
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Aleksandra Mir
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: January 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.
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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.
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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.
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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 career. Right now, I don't have the authority, the budget, the credibility.
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I follow these intimate connections of strangers and, surprise!, end up finding even myself in the work at some point.
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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.
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I'm neither shy nor impressed by media and press. It's just another industry to me. My response to the criticism was, I work with a steel factory. Why can't I work with the media?
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I think the optimal artwork is in constant circulation with the world around itself.
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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 you were investigating something far away from you or very close.
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You pick people, and they pick you sometimes. It's especially great to connect with people you think you have nothing in common with.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm very jealous of an era where people were inventing something so beautiful as the Concorde and thinking that's the next step. I'm jealous of an era when people thought, Let's finally go to the Moon.
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Of course, I'd welcome protest. Good criticism is hard to find.
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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.
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I'm so extremely well prepared for negative response, I've taken precautions.
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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.
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