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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.94,0:00:03.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to start with a question.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:03.24,0:00:05.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where does an artwork begin?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.12,0:00:09.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now sometimes that question is absurd.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.12,0:00:12.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It can seem deceptively simple,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.71,0:00:16.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as it was when I asked the question\Nwith this piece, "Portable Planetarium,"
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.42,0:00:18.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I made in 2010.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.24,0:00:20.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I asked the question:
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.13,0:00:23.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"What would it look like\Nto build a planetarium of one's own?"
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.100,0:00:25.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know you all ask that every morning,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.86,0:00:28.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I asked myself that question.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.56,0:00:30.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as an artist,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.22,0:00:33.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was thinking about our effort,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.17,0:00:38.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our desire, our continual longing\Nthat we've had over the years
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.74,0:00:41.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to make meaning of the world around us
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.56,0:00:42.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through materials.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.49,0:00:46.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And for me, to try and find\Nthe kind of wonder,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.99,0:00:52.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but also a kind of futility\Nthat lies in that very fragile pursuit,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.28,0:00:53.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is part of my art work.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.75,0:00:57.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I bring together\Nthe materials I find around me,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.27,0:01:00.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I gather them to try\Nand create experiences,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.57,0:01:04.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,immersive experiences that occupy rooms,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.25,0:01:07.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that occupy walls, landscapes, buildings.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.25,0:01:10.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But ultimately,\NI want them to occupy memory.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.85,0:01:13.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And after I've made a work,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.40,0:01:18.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I find that there's usually one memory\Nof that work that burns in my head.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.08,0:01:19.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is the memory for me --
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.64,0:01:22.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was this sudden\Nkind of surprising experience
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.31,0:01:25.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of being immersed inside that work of art.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.72,0:01:28.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it stayed with me\Nand kind of reoccurred in my work
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.78,0:01:30.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about 10 years later.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.35,0:01:34.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I want to go back\Nto my graduate school studio.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.32,0:01:37.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think it's interesting, sometimes,\Nwhen you start a body of work,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.78,0:01:40.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you need to just completely\Nwipe the plate clean,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.81,0:01:41.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,take everything away.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.01,0:01:44.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this may not look\Nlike wiping the plate clean,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.65,0:01:45.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but for me, it was.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.21,0:01:50.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because I had studied painting\Nfor about 10 years,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.03,0:01:51.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and when I went to graduate school,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.74,0:01:54.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I realized that I had developed skill,\Nbut I didn't have a subject.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.94,0:01:56.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was like an athletic skill,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.47,0:01:58.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I could paint the figure quickly,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.54,0:01:59.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I didn't know why.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.73,0:02:02.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I could paint it well,\Nbut it didn't have content.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.09,0:02:06.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so I decided to put\Nall the paints aside for a while,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.07,0:02:08.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to ask this question, which was:
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.87,0:02:12.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Why and how do objects\Nacquire value for us?"
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.62,0:02:17.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How does a shirt that I know\Nthousands of people wear,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.70,0:02:18.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a shirt like this one,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.93,0:02:20.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how does it somehow feel like it's mine?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.86,0:02:22.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I started with that experiment,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.51,0:02:26.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I decided, by collecting materials\Nthat had a certain quality to them.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.25,0:02:28.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were mass-produced,\Neasily accessible,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.93,0:02:32.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,completely designed\Nfor the purpose of their use,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.30,0:02:33.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not for their aesthetic.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.63,0:02:37.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So things like toothpicks, thumbtacks,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.10,0:02:38.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pieces of toilet paper,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.66,0:02:43.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to see if in the way that I put my energy,\Nmy hand, my time into them,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.70,0:02:48.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the behavior could actually create\Na kind of value in the work itself.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.62,0:02:51.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of the other ideas is,\NI wanted the work to become live.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.91,0:02:54.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I wanted to take it\Noff of the pedestal,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.04,0:02:55.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not have a frame around it,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.43,0:02:58.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have the experience not be\Nthat you came to something
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.42,0:03:00.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and told you that it was important,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.20,0:03:03.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but that you discover\Nthat it was in your own time.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.51,0:03:07.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this is like a very,\Nvery old idea in sculpture,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.41,0:03:11.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is: How do we breathe life\Ninto inanimate materials?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.41,0:03:14.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so, I would go to a space like this,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.63,0:03:15.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where there was a wall,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.86,0:03:17.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and use the paint itself,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.02,0:03:19.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pull the paint out off the wall,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.72,0:03:22.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the wall paint into space\Nto create a sculpture.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.34,0:03:24.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because I was also interested in this idea
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.42,0:03:27.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that these terms, "sculpture,"\N"painting," "installation" --
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.80,0:03:30.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,none of these mattered in the way\Nwe actually see the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.79,0:03:33.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I wanted to blur those boundaries,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.34,0:03:36.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,both between mediums\Nthat artists talk about,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.57,0:03:40.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but also blur the experience\Nof being in life and being in art,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.28,0:03:42.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that when you are in your everyday,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.17,0:03:44.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or when you are in one of my works,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.48,0:03:48.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you saw, you recognized the everyday,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.11,0:03:52.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you could then move that experience\Ninto your own life,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.40,0:03:55.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and perhaps see the art in everyday life.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.39,0:03:58.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was in graduate school in the '90s,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.17,0:04:01.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and my studio just became\Nmore and more filled with images,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.17,0:04:02.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as did my life.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.35,0:04:05.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this confusion of images and objects
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.74,0:04:09.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was really part of the way\NI was trying to make sense of materials.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.69,0:04:12.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And also, I was interested\Nin how this might change
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.48,0:04:15.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the way that we actually experience time.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.39,0:04:17.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we're experiencing time\Nthrough materials,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:17.83,0:04:22.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what happens when images and objects\Nbecome confused in space?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.77,0:04:27.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I started by doing some\Nof these experiments with images.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.11,0:04:30.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if you look back to the 1880s,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.89,0:04:34.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's when the first photographs\Nstarted turning into film.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.86,0:04:39.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they were done\Nthrough studies of animals,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.99,0:04:41.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the movement of animals.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.17,0:04:44.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So horses in the United States,\Nbirds in France.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.30,0:04:45.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were these studies of movement
Dialogue: 0,0:04:46.01,0:04:48.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that then slowly,\Nlike zoetropes, became film.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:48.51,0:04:51.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I decided, I will take an animal
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.33,0:04:53.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I'm going to play with that idea
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.10,0:04:57.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of how the image is not static\Nfor us anymore, it's moving.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.93,0:04:59.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's moving in space.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.14,0:05:03.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so I chose\Nas my character the cheetah,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:03.10,0:05:07.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because she is the fastest\Nland-dwelling creature on earth.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.13,0:05:08.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And she holds that record,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:08.39,0:05:10.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I want to use her record
Dialogue: 0,0:05:10.39,0:05:14.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to actually make it kind of\Na measuring stick for time.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:14.29,0:05:17.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so this is what she looked like\Nin the sculpture
Dialogue: 0,0:05:17.67,0:05:19.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as she moved through space.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:19.05,0:05:22.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This kind of broken framing\Nof the image in space,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:22.39,0:05:25.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I had put up notepad paper
Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.17,0:05:27.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and had it actually project on it.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:27.67,0:05:30.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then I did this experiment\Nwhere you have kind of a race,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:30.86,0:05:33.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with these new tools and video\Nthat I could play with.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.43,0:05:35.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the falcon moves out in front,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:35.33,0:05:37.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the cheetah, she comes in second,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:37.17,0:05:39.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the rhino is trying\Nto catch up behind.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:40.00,0:05:41.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then another one of the experiments,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:41.77,0:05:42.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was thinking about how,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:43.01,0:05:47.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if we try and remember\None thing that happened to us
Dialogue: 0,0:05:47.26,0:05:49.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when we were, let's say, 10 years old.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.71,0:05:53.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's very hard to remember\Neven what happened in that year.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:53.41,0:05:55.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And for me, I can think\Nof maybe one, maybe two,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:55.81,0:06:01.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that one moment\Nhas expanded in my mind
Dialogue: 0,0:06:01.10,0:06:02.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to fill that entire year.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:02.54,0:06:05.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we don't experience time\Nin minutes and seconds.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:05.74,0:06:09.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this is a still\Nof the video that I took,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:09.60,0:06:11.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,printed out on a piece of paper,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:11.40,0:06:14.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the paper is torn and then the video\Nis projected on top of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:15.32,0:06:17.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I wanted to play with this idea
Dialogue: 0,0:06:17.05,0:06:20.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of how, in this kind of\Ncomplete immersion of images
Dialogue: 0,0:06:20.93,0:06:22.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's enveloped us,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:22.80,0:06:26.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how one image can actually grow
Dialogue: 0,0:06:26.72,0:06:28.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and can haunt us.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:29.03,0:06:30.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I had all of these --
Dialogue: 0,0:06:30.31,0:06:34.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these are three out of, like,\N100 experiments I was trying with images
Dialogue: 0,0:06:34.43,0:06:35.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for over about a decade,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:35.66,0:06:37.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and never showing them,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:37.13,0:06:42.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I thought, OK, how do I bring this\Nout of the studio, into a public space,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:42.31,0:06:45.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but retain this kind of energy\Nof experimentation
Dialogue: 0,0:06:45.48,0:06:47.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you see when you go\Ninto a laboratory,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:47.84,0:06:49.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you see when you go into a studio,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:49.77,0:06:51.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I had this show coming up\Nand I just said,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:51.96,0:06:55.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,alright, I'm going to put my desk\Nright in the middle of the room.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:55.17,0:06:57.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I brought my desk\Nand I put it in the room,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:57.48,0:07:01.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it actually worked\Nin this kind of very surprising way to me,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:01.52,0:07:06.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in that it was this kind of flickering,\Nbecause of the video screens, from afar.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:06.64,0:07:08.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it had all\Nof the projectors on it,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:08.49,0:07:11.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so the projectors were creating\Nthe space around it,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:11.05,0:07:14.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but you were drawn towards\Nthe flickering like a flame.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:14.44,0:07:16.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then you were enveloped in the piece
Dialogue: 0,0:07:16.53,0:07:18.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the scale that we're all\Nvery familiar with,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:18.87,0:07:24.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is the scale of being in front\Nof a desk or a sink or a table,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:24.20,0:07:27.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you are immersed, then,\Nback into this scale,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:27.59,0:07:31.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this one-to-one scale\Nof the body in relation to the image.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:31.55,0:07:33.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But on this surface,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:33.32,0:07:37.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you had these projections on paper\Nbeing blown in the wind,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:37.79,0:07:40.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so there was this confusion\Nof what was an image
Dialogue: 0,0:07:40.68,0:07:42.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and what was an object.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:42.19,0:07:45.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this is what the work looked like\Nwhen it went into a larger room,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:45.47,0:07:47.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it wasn't until I made this piece
Dialogue: 0,0:07:47.30,0:07:52.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I realized that I'd effectively made\Nthe interior of a planetarium,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:52.32,0:07:54.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without even realizing that.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:54.29,0:07:58.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I remembered, as a child,\Nloving going to the planetarium.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:58.84,0:08:00.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And back then, the planetarium,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:00.53,0:08:03.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there was always not only\Nthese amazing images on the ceiling,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:04.01,0:08:07.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but you could see the projector itself\Nwhizzing and burring,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:07.98,0:08:11.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this amazing camera\Nin the middle of the room.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:11.15,0:08:15.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it was that, along with seeing\Nthe audience around you looking up,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:15.40,0:08:18.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because there was an audience\Nin the round at that time,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:18.20,0:08:21.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and seeing them, and experiencing,\Nbeing part of an audience.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:21.16,0:08:24.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this is an image from the web\Nthat I downloaded
Dialogue: 0,0:08:24.95,0:08:28.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of people who took images\Nof themselves in the work.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:28.17,0:08:29.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I like this image
Dialogue: 0,0:08:29.35,0:08:32.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because you see how the figures\Nget mixed with the work.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:32.51,0:08:36.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you have the shadow of a visitor\Nagainst the projection,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:36.95,0:08:39.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you also see the projections\Nacross a person's shirt.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:39.71,0:08:43.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So there were these self-portraits\Nmade in the work itself,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:43.17,0:08:44.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then posted,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:44.35,0:08:48.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it felt like a kind of cyclical\Nimage-making process.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:48.21,0:08:49.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And a kind of an end to that.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:49.96,0:08:53.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it reminded me and brought me back\Nto the planetarium,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:53.55,0:08:54.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that interior,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:54.88,0:08:56.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I started to go back to painting.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:56.86,0:09:01.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And thinking about how a painting\Nis actually, for me,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:01.09,0:09:03.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about the interior images\Nthat we all have.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:03.94,0:09:05.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's so many interior images,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:05.71,0:09:08.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we've become so focused\Non what's outside our eyes.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:09.20,0:09:12.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And how do we store memory in our mind,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:12.73,0:09:15.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how certain images emerge out of nowhere
Dialogue: 0,0:09:15.57,0:09:17.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or can fall apart over time.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:17.64,0:09:21.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I started to call this series\Nthe "Afterimage" series,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:21.14,0:09:25.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which was a reference to this idea\Nthat if we all close our eyes right now,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:25.37,0:09:27.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can see there's this flickering\Nlight that lingers,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:27.97,0:09:30.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and when we open it again,\Nit lingers again --
Dialogue: 0,0:09:30.14,0:09:31.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is happening all the time.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:31.68,0:09:37.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And an afterimage is something\Nthat a photograph can never replace,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:37.19,0:09:39.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you never feel that in a photograph.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:39.44,0:09:43.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it really reminds you of the limits\Nof the camera's lens.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:43.13,0:09:46.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it was this idea of taking the images\Nthat were outside of me --
Dialogue: 0,0:09:46.33,0:09:47.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is my studio --
Dialogue: 0,0:09:47.51,0:09:51.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then trying to figure out how\Nthey were being represented inside me.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:52.01,0:09:53.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So really quickly,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:53.42,0:09:57.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm just going to whiz through\Nhow a process might develop
Dialogue: 0,0:09:57.62,0:09:58.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the next piece.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:58.80,0:10:01.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it might start with a sketch,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:01.37,0:10:03.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or an image that's burned in my memory
Dialogue: 0,0:10:03.74,0:10:04.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the 18th century --
Dialogue: 0,0:10:04.93,0:10:07.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's Piranesi's "Colosseum."
Dialogue: 0,0:10:07.83,0:10:10.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or a model the size of a basketball --
Dialogue: 0,0:10:10.22,0:10:11.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I built this around a basketball,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:11.86,0:10:14.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the scale's evidenced\Nby the red cup behind it.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:14.100,0:10:17.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that model can be put\Ninto a larger piece as a seed,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:18.02,0:10:20.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that seed can grow\Ninto a bigger piece.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:20.40,0:10:23.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that piece can fill\Na very, very large space.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:24.08,0:10:29.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it can funnel down into a video\Nthat's just made from my iPhone,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:29.48,0:10:33.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of a puddle outside my studio\Nin a rainy night.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:34.46,0:10:38.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this is an afterimage\Nof the painting made in my memory,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:38.47,0:10:42.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and even that painting can fade\Nas memory does.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:42.14,0:10:45.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this is the scale of a very small image
Dialogue: 0,0:10:45.71,0:10:46.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from my sketchbook.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:46.99,0:10:48.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can see how it can explode
Dialogue: 0,0:10:48.78,0:10:51.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to a subway station\Nthat spans three blocks.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:52.15,0:10:54.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you could see how going\Ninto the subway station
Dialogue: 0,0:10:54.62,0:10:58.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is like a journey through\Nthe pages of a sketchbook,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:58.90,0:11:04.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you can see sort of a diary of work\Nwrit across a public space,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:04.06,0:11:06.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you're turning the pages\Nof 20 years of art work
Dialogue: 0,0:11:06.78,0:11:09.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as you move through the subway.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:09.03,0:11:12.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But even that sketch\Nactually has a different origin,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:12.69,0:11:18.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it has an origin in a sculpture\Nthat climbs a six-story building,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:18.94,0:11:22.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and is scaled to a cat from the year 2002.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:22.15,0:11:25.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I remember that because I had\Ntwo black cats at the time.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:25.62,0:11:28.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is an image of a work from Japan
Dialogue: 0,0:11:28.42,0:11:30.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you can see\Nthe afterimage of in the subway.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:30.73,0:11:32.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or a work in Venice,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:32.52,0:11:35.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where you see the image\Netched in the wall.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:35.41,0:11:39.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or how a sculpture\Nthat I did at SFMOMA in 2001,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:39.72,0:11:42.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and created this kind of dynamic line,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:42.21,0:11:45.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how I stole that to create a dynamic line
Dialogue: 0,0:11:45.17,0:11:48.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as you descend down\Ninto the subway itself.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:48.14,0:11:50.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this merging of mediums\Nis really interesting to me.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:50.79,0:11:54.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So how can you take a line\Nthat pulls tension like a sculpture
Dialogue: 0,0:11:54.46,0:11:55.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and put it into a print?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:55.89,0:11:58.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or then use line\Nlike a drawing in a sculpture
Dialogue: 0,0:11:58.45,0:12:00.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to create a dramatic perspective?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:00.76,0:12:04.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or how can a painting mimic\Nthe process of printmaking?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:05.01,0:12:08.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How can an installation\Nuse the camera's lens
Dialogue: 0,0:12:08.20,0:12:09.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to frame a landscape?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:10.31,0:12:15.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How can a painting on string\Nbecome a moment in Denmark,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:15.32,0:12:17.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the middle of a trek?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:18.18,0:12:20.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And how, on the High Line,\Ncan you create a piece
Dialogue: 0,0:12:20.63,0:12:23.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that camouflages itself\Ninto the nature itself
Dialogue: 0,0:12:23.67,0:12:27.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and becomes a habitat\Nfor the nature around it?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:28.73,0:12:31.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I'll just end with two pieces\Nthat I'm making now.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:31.80,0:12:33.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a piece called "Fallen Sky"
Dialogue: 0,0:12:33.71,0:12:37.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's going to be a permanent\Ncommission in Hudson Valley,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:37.20,0:12:40.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's kind of the planetarium\Nfinally come down
Dialogue: 0,0:12:40.47,0:12:42.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and grounding itself in the earth.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:42.77,0:12:46.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is a work from 2013\Nthat's going to be reinstalled,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:46.30,0:12:49.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have a new life in the reopening of MOMA.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:50.28,0:12:53.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's a piece that the tool\Nitself is the sculpture.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:53.83,0:12:56.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the pendulum, as it swings,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:56.55,0:12:59.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is used as a tool to create the piece.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:59.45,0:13:02.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So each of the piles of objects
Dialogue: 0,0:13:02.36,0:13:07.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,go right up to one centimeter\Nto the tip of that pendulum.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:07.94,0:13:11.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you have this combination\Nof the lull of that beautiful swing,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:11.90,0:13:15.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but also the tension that it constantly\Ncould destroy the piece itself.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:16.47,0:13:19.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so, it doesn't really matter\Nwhere any of these pieces end up,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:19.76,0:13:22.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because the real point for me
Dialogue: 0,0:13:22.57,0:13:25.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that they end up\Nin your memory over time,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:25.65,0:13:29.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they generate ideas beyond themselves.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:29.82,0:13:30.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:30.99,0:13:37.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)