Born
1967 Lubin, Poland. Citizen of Sweden. Lives in NYC, USA and Palermo,
Sicily.
Aleksandra Mir's works often take the form of social processes that
are open for anyone who wishes giving the
work meaning. The work of art is an exercise that operates in everyday
life; a humanistic and playful organism
with a large social appetite. The work's course of events is often
started by Mir as a situation-bound joint between
specific events, and the work's location. From this starting point
the discussion is extended to more general
conditions like traditions, norms and categorization. 'Pick Up (Oh
Baby)' was a public collection and broadcast of
sexy male whistles at Town hall Square in Copenhagen. The sound encroached
on the people passing by. The
lightly dressed girls looked over their shoulders in vain trying to
catch a glimpse of the man who whistled.'Cinema
for the Unemployed — Hollywood Disaster Movies' (1970-1997) is
produced by Mir in cooperation with Moss
employment service. From May 25th - 29th at 9am - 5pm (on weekdays,
during work hours!), disaster movies will
be shown in a shut down cinema, in the center of Moss. In this way,
Mir connects ideas about leisure culture and
labor life in a situation, which is both metaphor and productive circumstance.
Lars Bang Larsen, MOMENTUM catalogue, 1998.
Le projet d'Aleksandra Mir repose
sur la création
d’un ballon gonflé à l’hélium, reprenant
les formes et dimensions d’un avion de ligne. Suspendu au-dessus
du sol en constante position d'atterrissage, l'avion a d’abord été présenté en
juillet 2004 dans un cadre typiquement anglais, avant d’entamer
un tour du monde vers d’autres paysages de cartes postales.
En 2008, l’avion a atterri à l’aéroport
de Zurich puis en octobre, à Paris, où il a été photographié dans
les sites emblématiques de la capitale.
Plane Landing est un évènement dont chaque étape
fait partie intégrante de l'œuvre : la fabrication du ballon,
ses voyages, son gonflage à l’hélium, son « atterrissage » et
les photographies qui témoignent de tous ces épisodes.
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