Olafur Eliasson
speaker
245 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 14 Apr
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One was a bat, one was a spider.
So there was this kind of more than human ways of looking at it.
The more than human, of course, is a thing now because we are talking about giving rights of personhood to more than human.
We are generally shifting on understanding, you know, can a mountain, can a tree, can a river, the river Ganga in India, for instance, can they have rights?
Client Earth, who I hosted only a couple of weeks ago here at my place in Berlin, where they are opening up a new office, they're from London.
They helped the Air of London suing the City of London for pollutants, and they won.
They won the case because there was too much in the air that was not allowed to be there.
So they represented the air in court.
The rights of personhood is also happening, of course, in theory.
A lot of the theory is drawing resources from indigenous systems of thinking, learning from them, acknowledging the incredible resourcefulness
It's fantastic how we are given the opportunity from reconsidering our lens.
I need to unsee what I have been seeing all along.
There's nothing more inspiring than accepting that you have been blind.
And thanks for bringing it up again.
I kind of offered the burying of the inside and the outside of the show.
There's a lake outside, a small pond actually, out in the garden.
I thought, why don't we raise the level of it?
What if it would start flooding the gallery?
We have to take the artworks out and then somehow take the facade off.
I called the architect, can I take off the facade?
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