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.
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… - Aleksandra Mir
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…
- Aleksandra Mir
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
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.
I've gotten all kinds of reactions and it's been used in so many different ways. - Aleksandra Mir
I've gotten all kinds of reactions and it's been used in so many different ways.
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… - Aleksandra Mir
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…
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… - Aleksandra Mir
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…
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… - 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 party site. There ar…
"Hello" is always presented as a linear narrative, a singular chain, sometimes in a loop. But the reality of making it is that connections are natura… - Aleksandra Mir
"Hello" is always presented as a linear narrative, a singular chain, sometimes in a loop. But the reality of making it is that connections are natura…
I wouldn't say the anthropologists were making art, but they were definitely justifying their practices with very personal reasoning, passion, and th… - Aleksandra Mir
I wouldn't say the anthropologists were making art, but they were definitely justifying their practices with very personal reasoning, passion, and th…
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… - 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 new things if you don't occasiona…
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