A Dash of Hemlock

Juliana: How do you hope people will be activated by your work?

Erwin: Turned on.  Opened up.  I saw so much art from recent years in Germany that was very serious, asking serious questions about serious life issues and they did it with pathos, and I found it awful because pathos makes us heavy, squeezes us down.  I use cynicism and humour to lift up and levitate. 

- Bad Day Interview with Erwin Wurm, 2011