“I want to speak, show, see, and hear outrageously astute questions and comments. I want to be on the sides of pleasure and laughter and to disrupt the dour certainties of pictures, property, and power.” WantShowsSpeakSidesPleasureLaughterPropertyCertaintyCommentAstute Book:Remote Control: Power, Cultures, and the World of Appearances Source: Remote Control: Power, Cultures, and the World of Appearances
“I see my work as a series of attempts to ruin certain representations and to welcome a female spectator into the audience of men. If this work is considered incorrect, all the better, for my attempts aim to undermine that singular pontificating male voice-over which correctly instructs our pleasures and histories or lack of them.” IfsMenCertainVoicePleasureAudienceFemaleAimSeriesMalesWelcomeRuinsRepresentationSpectatorsVoice Over Book:Remote Control: Power, Cultures, and the World of Appearances Source: Remote Control: Power, Cultures, and the World of Appearances
“I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as in their criticism.” PeopleThinkingWayDifferentArtistPleasureCriticismAskingDifferent Ways Author:Barbara Kruger
“The place of the arts in the classroom is essential in encouraging invention, ambition, and an understanding of the importance and pleasures of living an examined life.” ArtUnderstandingPleasureEssentialsAmbitionImportanceInventionClassroomExamined Life Author:Barbara Kruger
“Architecture is my first love, if you want to talk about what moves me... the ordering of space, the visual pleasure, architecture's power to construct our days and nights.” IfsWantFirstsMovingNightSpacePleasureArchitectureVisualsFirst LoveConstructsDay And Night Author:Barbara Kruger
