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 are amazing pictures of people up on the stones going wild and that's the image I recreated for my model of the project: full access to everyone. I even invented a Stonehenge soccer team that uses spaces between the stones as goals.
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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
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…
Of course, I'd welcome protest. Good criticism is hard to find. - Aleksandra Mir
Of course, I'd welcome protest. Good criticism is hard to find.
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