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

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

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..

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 ….

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 conceivabl….

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 c….

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

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

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

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 th….

I wouldn't say the anthropologists were making art, but they were definitely justifying their practices with very personal reasoning, passion, and th….

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 futur….

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

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 occasiona….

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

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 pr….

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 ….

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. W….

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 agai….

"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 to come. Every time….

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