“I have problems with a lot of photography, particularly street photography and photojournalism - objectifying the other, finding the contempt and exoticism that you might feel within yourself or toward yourself and projecting it out to others. There can be an abusive power to photography, too.” FeelsProblemMightStreetsFindingsPhotographyContemptAbusiveStreet PhotographyPhotojournalismObjectifying Author:Barbara Kruger
“I think people have to set up little battles. They have to demonize people whom they disagree with or feel threatened by. But it's the ideological framing of the debate that scares me.” PeopleThinkingFeelsLittlesBattleDebateScareDisagreeThreatenedIdeologicalFraming Author:Barbara Kruger
“I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.” ThinkingFeelsTryingArtStillsStoriesCertainSocialLevelsArt IsVariousTyrannyResistanceSiteSocial LifeSubjectivity Author:Barbara Kruger
“I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I'm not sure what it means. If it means what I think it does, then I don't do it. I'm not crazy about categories.” IfsThinkingFeelsMeanDoeArtArtistTermCrazyArt IsUncomfortableNot SureCategoriesPublic Art Author:Barbara Kruger
“I remember going into galleries and seeing this thing called conceptual art, and I understand people’s marginalization from what the art subculture is because if you haven’t crashed the codes, and if you don’t know what it is, you feel it’s a conspiracy against your unintelligence. You feel it’s fraud.” PeopleIfsKnowsFeelsArtRememberSeeingHavensCodeFraudConspiracyGallerySubcultureMarginalizationConceptual Art Author:Barbara Kruger
