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Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.52,0:00:22.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,["Barbara Kruger: Part of the Discourse"]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.42,0:00:29.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How come any piece of canvas\Nwith pigment on it
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.52,0:00:30.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gets to be called art?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.76,0:00:35.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are so many ways of making art,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.76,0:00:40.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some of them more available\Nto a general public than others.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.66,0:00:45.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I remember going to galleries\Nwhen I was young--
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.26,0:00:46.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,totally intimidated!
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.64,0:00:50.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Certain works have to be decoded.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.24,0:00:55.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think the availability of my work\Nwas important to me,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.24,0:00:58.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I was that viewer\Nwho didn’t understand--
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.67,0:01:00.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who didn’t know the codes.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.24,0:01:17.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Performa approached me,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.14,0:01:19.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the skatepark came up in conversation.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.73,0:01:22.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just go, "Oh that would be so cool."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.00,0:01:24.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Money talks."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.62,0:01:25.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Whose values?"
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.18,0:01:32.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These are just ideas in the air,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.30,0:01:35.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and questions that we ask sometimes--
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.28,0:01:40.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and questions that we don’t ask\Nbut should ask.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.44,0:01:46.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I grew up in Newark, New Jersey.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.41,0:01:48.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My mother and my father,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.27,0:01:50.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,neither of them have college degrees.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.96,0:01:53.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We lived in a three-room apartment
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.98,0:01:55.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I slept in the living room.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.06,0:02:01.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was always very aware of how\Nwhere we’re born,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.77,0:02:04.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what we are given,\Nand what is withheld from us
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.54,0:02:06.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,determines who we can be in the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.36,0:02:10.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I came to New York.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.12,0:02:12.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Went to Parson’s for a year.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.52,0:02:14.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Started working as a billing clerk
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.52,0:02:18.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then a telephone operator.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.20,0:02:21.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Living in Newark and later New York,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.52,0:02:24.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,maybe you didn’t read the tabloids\Nbut you saw them everyday
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.36,0:02:27.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the subway and everywhere.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.05,0:02:30.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All of a sudden,\NI heard there were jobs at Condé Nast.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.26,0:02:31.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was lucky--
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.41,0:02:34.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I got hired as a second designer.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.97,0:02:36.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you didn’t get people\Nto look at those pages,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.92,0:02:37.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you were fired.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.25,0:02:39.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Cropping pictures.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.26,0:02:40.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Choosing fonts.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.40,0:02:44.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I first started I thought,\N"Oh I want to be art director,"
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.32,0:02:46.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it was a different world.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.54,0:02:49.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was like a chimney sweep\Ncompared to the other people who worked there.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.80,0:02:52.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I really took time off
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.14,0:02:56.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and tried to figure out\Nwhat it might mean to call myself an artist.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.20,0:02:58.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I remember saying to people,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.71,0:03:02.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Can I just be an artist by working with\Npasteup and magic marker?"
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.83,0:03:04.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"No, you can’t do that."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.76,0:03:08.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I realized I could use the fluencies\Nas a designer
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.08,0:03:09.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to make my work.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.51,0:03:13.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I like fonts that cut through the grease--
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.20,0:03:17.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the, sort of, clarity\Nof those sans serif fonts.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.22,0:03:22.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I felt that red capture one’s attention.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.60,0:03:27.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In most cases, I could not afford to\Nprint these images in color.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.66,0:03:32.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I used to go to used bookstores\Nand find old magazines,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.38,0:03:34.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I converted them to black and white.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.62,0:03:39.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For us, in 1981, '83,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.30,0:03:42.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,showing your work was about\Nbeing a part of the discourse.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.16,0:03:47.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When my peer group first started being discussed,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.05,0:03:48.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and our work was being sold,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.65,0:03:54.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I thought, "Well if my work is developing\Nthis commodity status, I had to address it."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.68,0:04:02.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Issues about power, value,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.86,0:04:04.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unfortunately do not grow old.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.84,0:04:20.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Architecture is my first love.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.32,0:04:23.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just spatialize ideas.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.00,0:04:31.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know what areas to engage
Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.38,0:04:35.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to activate a space\Nwith images and with text.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:42.44,0:04:43.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Think like us."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.32,0:04:45.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Hate like us."\N"Fear like us."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:45.32,0:04:47.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want my work to create commentary.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.40,0:04:49.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[PROTESTOR]\N--Right to life, your name’s a lie,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.14,0:04:50.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--you don’t care if women die.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.84,0:04:56.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[KRUGER] I made "Your body is a battleground"\Nto get people to go to the march.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:56.70,0:04:58.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This was for women’s reproductive rights.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.70,0:05:03.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I remember calling Planned Parenthood\Nand offering my services,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:03.96,0:05:06.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they didn’t know who the eff I was.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.52,0:05:09.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They said, well they were\Nworking with an advertising agency.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.38,0:05:10.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh okay, alright.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.64,0:05:14.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I used this printer named Quirky.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:15.50,0:05:17.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I used to print all these posters with him.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:19.60,0:05:22.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I went out at one or two in the morning
Dialogue: 0,0:05:22.26,0:05:25.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and put these posters up all over town.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:29.80,0:05:31.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, of course I’m a feminist.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:32.34,0:05:38.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I have never been able to consider\Ngender or sexuality apart from class--
Dialogue: 0,0:05:38.44,0:05:41.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and never thought of class apart from race.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:42.18,0:05:44.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Something to really think about
Dialogue: 0,0:05:44.56,0:05:48.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is what makes us who we are\Nin the world that we live in,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:48.39,0:05:51.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and how culture constructs and contains us.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:52.24,0:05:54.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are stereotypes of the artist
Dialogue: 0,0:05:54.96,0:05:57.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or of the musician.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:57.56,0:05:59.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those are the kinder stereotypes.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:04.60,0:06:07.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People ask me all the time,\Ncan they come to my studio?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:07.62,0:06:10.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I say, do you want me to put a beret on
Dialogue: 0,0:06:10.14,0:06:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you can photograph me with a big table?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:12.00,0:06:13.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I said, no--\Nno.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:13.38,0:06:15.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just don’t want to be that person.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:20.92,0:06:23.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There’s enough visual record of me.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:24.04,0:06:26.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You don’t need a million pictures.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:27.50,0:06:30.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What it means\Nto point a camera at another person,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:30.42,0:06:32.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think that there’s a brutality about that.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:45.02,0:06:45.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"You."
Dialogue: 0,0:06:47.66,0:06:50.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"You know that women have served\Nall these centuries"
Dialogue: 0,0:06:50.96,0:06:54.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"as looking glasses possessing the magic\Nand delicious power"
Dialogue: 0,0:06:54.94,0:06:59.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"of reflecting the figure of man at twice\Nits natural size."
Dialogue: 0,0:07:00.20,0:07:01.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s a Virginia Woolf quote.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:04.62,0:07:06.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just had to use that.