Aleksandra Mir Quotes

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• 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

  Moments, Lost, Grounded

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I'm completely uninterested in the origins of Stonehenge. I don't care about the real story behind it or whether it should be saved or not. What I'm interested in is this: in the Victorian era, you could go there as an early cultural tourist and you were given a chisel to chip off a bit of the stones and take it with you. That's what you did in Victorian times.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Real, Care, Stones

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, believermag.com. January 1, 2004.

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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.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Art, Mean, Museums

  Source: www.believermag.com

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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

  Play, Purpose, World

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, believermag.com. January 1, 2004.

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• I think the optimal artwork is in constant circulation with the world around itself.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Thinking, World, Artwork

  "Aleksandra Mir Interview: Naming Tokyo". Interview with Christophe Cherix, Kim Conaty, aleksandramir.info. June 20, 2011.

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• "Hello" is pseudoscience. The only smart way to read it is not to believe in it, not to trust it, or to put yourself in it and imagine what's out there that you haven't been told or seen.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Smart, Believe, Pseudoscience

  Source: www.believermag.com

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

  Aleksandra Mir

  Connections, Surprise, Stranger

  Source: www.believermag.com

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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.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Trying, Borders, Way

  Source: www.believermag.com

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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.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Demand, Settling, Natural

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, believermag.com. January 1, 2004.

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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.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Thinking, People, Common

  Source: www.believermag.com

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

  Aleksandra Mir

  Different, Way, Kind

  Source: www.believermag.com

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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?"

  Aleksandra Mir

  Media, Criticism, Shy

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, believermag.com. January 1, 2004.

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• Dutch beaches were known to me as man-made territories, as part of various land reclamation projects. But I was also interested in the media reality of the Moon landing. I wanted to use that event as a measure of time, to see what had happened in those thirty years - which happens to be my lifetime as well. I was born in 1967 and I remember seeing the Moon landing on TV when I was two. All those things were in play. Then it became a big production. It took five months to gather up the goodwill and make it happen.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Beach, Moon, Reality

  Source: www.believermag.com

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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.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Running, People, Depending On Others

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, believermag.com. January 1, 2004.

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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.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Art, New York, School

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, believermag.com. January 1, 2004.

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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.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Art, Men, Landscape

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, believermag.com. January 1, 2004.

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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.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Running, Thinking, Nuclear

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, believermag.com. January 1, 2004.

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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.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Zoos, Drama, Sea

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, believermag.com. January 1, 2004.

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• The plane as an object has been a huge effort to make. It is a sculpture, a technological invention, a piece of aviation culture. But really, it only exists to be inserted into a variety of landscapes, to be a catalyst, to offset them.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Effort, Culture, Sculpture

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, believermag.com. January 1, 2004.

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• The space program caused so much future-thinking in culture. People who couldn't go to the Moon were building space-fantasy chairs and corsets and hairdos and anything that they could put their hands on.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Thinking, Moon, Space

  Source: www.believermag.com

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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."

  Aleksandra Mir

  Beautiful, Jealous, Moon

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• 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 am not really interested in doing either. I think I am simply interested in looking.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Mean, Thinking, Simple

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, believermag.com. January 1, 2004.

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• 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

  Real, Fall, Civilization

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, believermag.com. January 1, 2004.

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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.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Art, School, People

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, believermag.com. January 1, 2004.

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• 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 liked the way these people committed to the long term in a sincere, visionary way. Their projects weren't about "next season." They were ten-year commitments. They were lifestyle choices that had traditions of fieldwork built into them - moving around, living on location, discipline, a real rigor for research.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Real, Moving, Commitment

  Source: www.believermag.com

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