I had a total revelation with the feminist moment, with Carolee Scheeman and Marina Abromovic and of course … - Ragnar Kjartansson

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I think, Trump ran a very nostalgic campaign. There's an idea of like, to put it bluntly: What if it was like before all our kids got strung out on drugs? You know, what if it was like that? Make America like that.

Ragnar Kjartansson

I had a total revelation with the feminist moment, with Carolee Scheeman and Marina Abromovic and of course Joan Jonas; that was a big breakthrough with me. And through them, [I was introduced to] Chris Burden and Bruce Nauman and Vito Acconci. You can almost call it a gang, because the works are always talking together. That stuff had a huge impact on me, but other than that, my interest had always been old paintings.

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I often really like to play with documenting my performances cinematically. Cinematic documentation is much more interesting than the performance itself.

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