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

Or you can just put your ear to it, give it a hug, and you can get sort of a nice hug back from 20,000 years ago.

So what I'm saying is that it is actually quite literally touching.

It is very moving, you could also say.

And of course, it's melting right in front of you.

Next day you come back, if you do, it's half the size.

It's not half, but it's very much smaller.

And it takes about a week.

Then a chunk the size of a car is...

Gone.

Now it's just gone.

Now that's in the clock under Paris, in the sewers.

So, you know, in terms of fantasy, imagination, dreams, having some contact with what is on the outside or the periphery of the rational world, believing in something, having higher hopes than what you can actually explain, giving yourself to things that are about dreaming and daring and having courage to actually be strong enough to ask for help.

to show your vulnerabilities, to be honest.

This, I think, is what the project actually is about, humanizing or re-humanizing what it means to be present to each other and to the eyes, of course.

In the midst of these times in which we live, there are great things happening.

I am going to be as committed as I can to participating.

There are great people doing a lot, but are we meeting our targets?

No, we're not.

Are we showing up at the right time, at the right place, at the right thing?

No, we're not.

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