INTERVIEW BY CAROL BECKER

Olafur Eliasson

Columbia World Leaders Forum: Olafur Eliasson

The Forum, Columbia University. New York City. September 26, 2019.

Renowned Danish-Icelandic visual artist Olafur Eliasson’s large-scale works such as Ice Watch and New York City Waterfalls spark critical dialogue about climate change and our relationship to nature. His work is driven by interests in perception, movement, embodied experience, and feelings of self, engaging the broader public sphere through architectural projects, interventions in civic space, arts education, policy-making, and issues of sustainability. Introduced by, and followed by a conversation with, Carol Becker.