Olafur Eliasson

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245 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 14 Apr

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The Nature Of with Willow Defebaugh · Artist Olafur Eliasson on Seeing What We’ve Been Blind To · 14 Apr 2026 podcast

So it also exposed the hidden power structures that every institution evidently has.

We don't think about it because we already, you know, we are cultivated into, you don't bring your guitar and sit in the middle of a Goya show and play guitar because it's inspiring to you.

So maybe there is an opportunity in certain types of exhibitions.

Maybe there's an opportunity in reconsidering the agency that the institution or the spaces that culture lives in.

Maybe they are also restraining.

Maybe one can actually reconsider what are the best platforms for culture to do its stuff.

Which is why I'm always interested in being outside on the street.

It's the greatest space of the model, being in nature, in fact.

To make a long story short, we got a permit from you and from the city of Paris and from everyone to do this.

It seemed good.

And then there was these terror attacks, right?

There was the shooting in the nightclub, and everything stood still.

And I was so impressed with the fact that after this terror attack, the commitment to climate was still there.

The idea was, here you can touch the data that is being talked about, and it is literally melting in front of you.

And not only that you can touch it, you can also be touched by it.

It was blue, there were small air bubbles inside, and the pressure of the glacier, the pressure of this enormous glacier in Greenland had pressured the bubbles of air from 20,000 years ago, pressured it together.

So when the bubble comes as the ice was melting close to the surface, it pops, it says.

So when you get really close to the ice,

of the air from 20,000 years ago that has been stuck in the ice and it's actually that air.

You can sniff up the air from 20,000 years ago.

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