Olafur Eliasson
speaker
245 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 14 Apr
Olafur Eliasson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It is the theater play that is me on the stage.
That dance or that ballet or whatever, that street theater, that culture has
has this kind of capacity to actually touch something deeper in you that is something that you are working on.
And questions can be asked that cannot be asked by politicians or by completely cognitive environments.
We can talk about things that would not be easy to talk about outside of cultural institutions.
Cultural institutions are generally more inclusive and more pluralistic.
You can stand in front of the painting before and then, and I stand next to you and say, oh my God, that blue color.
And then you say, I really don't connect with that blue.
And I look at you and say, my God, that's interesting.
And imagine now if this was politics in America, for instance, or if it was two British football teams.
What?
Liverpool?
Oh my God, let's get into a fight.
It's so ridiculous that there is actually not a lot of spaces left
where being different is actually an asset, diversity.
And so there is a lot of, I think, trust around culture in its ability to reflect something that I've been working on, dealing with, and I haven't gotten around to it yet,
I think a safe space is not safe in the way that it's defensive.
It keeps everything out.
It's not safe.
It is safe in the sense that it sets you free to express your needs and the boundaries.
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