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

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

- 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…

- 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…

- 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…

- 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…

- 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…

- 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 extent that it is even conceivabl…

- Aleksandra Mir