“The idea that there is a rational truth out there that is not embodied...” — Natalie Jeremijenko Quote

The idea that there is a rational truth out there that is not embodied in a person's politics is something I can't understand or subscribe to.

I created a successful outdoor youth festival - the Liverd festival - against all good advice. It was a great way to explore and investigate social sculptures. Having that as my kind of studio, outside of a museum or precious white-cube gallery, that was a kind of education.

Eating together is the most intimate form of kinship. By scripting a work where we share the same kind of food with fish, I'm scripting our interrelationship with them.

I am committed to the idea of information politics. That is how contemporary politics are played out.

Many anthropologists work with a concept called embodied knowledge - tacit, nonscientific knowledge - and look for ways to incorporate such information into product design.

You pass a poem to the audience through the words as embodied literally by the rest of your human form. And the people listening and watching come back at you in an equally embodied way.

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

In the end, Ted Kennedy was a politician, plain and simple. Yet he embodied how politics and public service can be successfully intertwined. You can't be a good public servant without being a good politician. Kennedy was both.