Preview: Lynn Hershman Leeson in Season 9 of Art21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" (2018)

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[LYNN HERSHMAN LEESON]
In the mid-1970s, maybe a little earlier,
I had done a sculptural painting of a man.
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And a collector went to a gallery
and bought the work.
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I wanted to meet him,
but the gallery didn't want me to meet him
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because "Lynn" could be either male or female.
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Somehow he found out I was female
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and he returned the work because he said
that women weren't good investments--
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women artists didn't make a good investment.
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He was wrong.
[LAUGHS]
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I did start out doing painting and drawing
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and then moved into sculpture.
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Then sculpture with sound.
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[RECORDING] ...trying to remember who we are.
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Video,
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film,
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artificial intelligence.
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Then computer-based work.
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I do work that confronts
where we are in society.

Title:: Preview: Lynn Hershman Leeson in Season 9 of Art21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" (2018)
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Video Language:: English
Team:: Art21
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Duration:: 01:30

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