“I think the optimal artwork is in constant circulation with the world around itself.” ThinkingWorldConstantArtworkCirculationOptimal Author: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 project could possibly be realized at a very late part of my career. Right now, I don't have the authority, the budget, the credibility.” ThinkingSaidHomeInterestingCareersWorstRight NowAuthorityProjectsLateCriticismBudgetsCredibilityProposalVegasLas VegasStonehenge Author: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 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.” IfsThinkingKnowsMeanI CanCoursesSimpleCasesParticularSorrowDestructionRelationReactionsDestroyedNew Things Author:Aleksandra Mir
“You pick people, and they pick you sometimes. It's especially great to connect with people you think you have nothing in common with.” PeopleThinkingSometimesCommonPicks Author:Aleksandra Mir
“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.” ThinkingWellsRunningNuclearDisasterThese DaysZoneWildlifeBreedingChernobyl Author:Aleksandra Mir
“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.” PeopleThinkingHandsCultureSpaceFantasyBuildingMoonProgramChairsSpace ProgramCorsetsHairdosFuture Thinking Author:Aleksandra Mir
“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."” PeopleThinkingBeautifulNextStepsMoonErasJealousInventingNext StepsConcorde Author:Aleksandra Mir
“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 best graphic ever made. I cut a Concorde out and put it over his head so it's Che looking up and the Concorde going by. Both are dead, maybe obsolete.” ThinkingKnowsMadeHomeFacesBlackPerfectCuttingRedGraphicObsoletePostersIconicConcorde Author:Aleksandra Mir