Audio: Interview with Olafur Eliasson, 2000
listen to ‘Interview with Olafur Eliasson, 2000’ on Audioboo (function() { var po = document.createElement(“script”); po.type = “text/javascript”; po.async = true; po.src = “//d15mj6e6qmt1na.cloudfront.net/assets/embed.js”; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(“script”)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s); })(); Cristín Leach interviews artist Olafur Eliasson about his exhibition The Curious Garden at The Irish Museum of Modern Art in 2000.
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