22 Quotes by Natalie Jeremijenko

Are kids smarter than adults? All evidence points to that being true.

I used to have a lovely Chelsea loft - then I got divorced.

Eating together is the most intimate form of kinship. By scripting a work where we share the same kind of food with fish, I'm scripting our interrelationship with them.

Formally, I did my studies in the sciences, but I was very conscious that I was being deprived of culture. While studying neuroscience, I was running a rock-music festival and was able to use that as a platform to explore what it takes to produce art for 20,000 inebriated 20-somethings.

I created a successful outdoor youth festival - the Liverd festival - against all good advice. It was a great way to explore and investigate social sculptures. Having that as my kind of studio, outside of a museum or precious white-cube gallery, that was a kind of education.

I am committed to the idea of information politics. That is how contemporary politics are played out.

There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.

A lot of my work concerns a crisis of agency - what can we do?

I watch children a great deal; their idea is that rules are always negotiable, whereas you absolutely cannot joke at the airport about your toothpaste, and you cannot rollerblade in Grand Central Station. I keep running up against these things.