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Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.46,0:00:08.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[JES FAN]\NOnce you've seen them,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.08,0:00:10.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're lodged in your mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.68,0:00:15.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Especially thinking of them as\None of the first few representations
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.82,0:00:19.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the Chinese person as a subject.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.12,0:00:28.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a medical missionary\Ncalled Peter Parker
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.26,0:00:32.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who traveled to Canton to perform\Nthe surgical incision of tumors
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.94,0:00:36.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the early nineteenth century.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.41,0:00:40.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lam Qua was a really celebrated painter \Nat the time.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.52,0:00:43.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was most famous for painting portraitures.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.28,0:00:49.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I suppose that Lam Qua was also celebrated
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.88,0:00:52.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by how accurate he can paint his sitters.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.73,0:00:54.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's known for this one quote saying,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.92,0:00:57.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"What eye no see, no can do."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.22,0:01:07.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's something about Chinese-ness here.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.56,0:01:12.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thinking, like,\Nhow did Chinese-ness become a word?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.34,0:01:19.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What are the technologies that's involved\Nin creating this idea of "the other"?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.70,0:01:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why does the shoulder need to be bare?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.00,0:01:31.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like, the braid of hair is placed.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.96,0:01:36.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's just so seductive,\Nand I was wondering if that kind of seduction
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.36,0:01:39.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has to come in a way that you're able to see
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.26,0:01:43.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the sitter as a fellow human.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.44,0:01:54.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,["Jes Fan: Infectious Beauty"]
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.48,0:02:03.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think it made me really try to understand\Nthe idea of beauty and seduction.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.68,0:02:06.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think my work has a lot to do with seduction.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.64,0:02:13.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nowadays, beauty is really flat.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.24,0:02:16.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's only one emotion you can emote on\Nsocial media,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.76,0:02:18.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is the double tap, right?\N[LAUGHS]
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.76,0:02:20.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That there's only a heart shape.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.46,0:02:22.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When something is beautiful,\Nit's just a flat heart.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.30,0:02:34.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But then, when you think of\Nbeauty in the past,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.94,0:02:36.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's beauty and the sublime.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.56,0:02:40.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It has to come with this suspension--
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.70,0:02:41.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this fear.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.20,0:02:50.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It also meant, in the past,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.41,0:02:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to describe something that was so beautiful
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.00,0:02:56.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that it almost makes you want to puke.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.20,0:02:56.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[LAUGHS]
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.88,0:03:08.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Originally, I grew up in Hong Kong.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.02,0:03:10.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's very oppressive, being queer there,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.92,0:03:16.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just not being able to see yourself reflected\Nin society,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.14,0:03:18.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nor even within just
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.76,0:03:22.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,being able to see happy, queer adults--
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.67,0:03:24.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or queer adults in general.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.00,0:03:31.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's kind of not being able to see a future\Nextension of yourself.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.26,0:03:37.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had a really rough few years growing up,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.92,0:03:40.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,trying to find who I can be.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.50,0:03:57.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[JULIE WOLF]\NSo my understanding of the piece
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.92,0:04:00.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that you make it so that it's a glass shape\Nof something.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.93,0:04:04.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then, you add the melanin to the piece,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.78,0:04:06.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then fill it with silicon afterwards,\Ncorrect?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.80,0:04:07.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[FAN]\NYeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.80,0:04:10.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[WOLF]\NWhat we want to make is melanin.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:11.10,0:04:13.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the final physical form that we're going\Nto make.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.16,0:04:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is called L-DOPA.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.87,0:04:19.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In this case, L-DOPA is a really\Nunstable molecule.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.54,0:04:21.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you expose it to light
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.85,0:04:24.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or ambient temperature,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.07,0:04:26.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it will start to do something called autopolymerizing.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.96,0:04:28.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's going to start to make a polymer,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:28.91,0:04:30.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is a repeated subunit,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.91,0:04:32.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is going to be related to that melanin.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.98,0:04:37.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So what we're going to do is to make the conditions
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.06,0:04:40.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as unstable for L-DOPA as possible,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.34,0:04:43.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that we can bypass the biological process
Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.72,0:04:45.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and just get right to the melanin.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.18,0:04:52.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it's not as dark,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.43,0:04:54.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but you can see that\Nthere's the flakes in there.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:54.46,0:04:56.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[FAN]\NSo crazy that they're warm.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:56.28,0:04:57.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[WOLF]\NYeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.28,0:05:00.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[FAN]\NIt would be great to have them...
Dialogue: 0,0:05:00.66,0:05:03.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,something that you can identify or trigger,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:03.94,0:05:06.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and sort of hope that is that.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.13,0:05:07.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because the plates you gave me
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.86,0:05:09.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the E. coli,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.82,0:05:11.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they look exactly like molds.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:12.04,0:05:15.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So let's hope that these will grow happily
Dialogue: 0,0:05:16.82,0:05:20.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and into more slurry-like, you know?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:43.00,0:05:45.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A lot of what I'm trying to do with
Dialogue: 0,0:05:45.64,0:05:47.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what we consider as gendered materials,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:47.82,0:05:49.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or racialized materials,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.38,0:05:52.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're just really, really absurd.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:58.00,0:05:59.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's like a cooking show.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:59.50,0:06:00.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have semen,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:00.74,0:06:01.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,blood,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:02.20,0:06:03.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,melanin,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:03.14,0:06:04.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and pee.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:04.74,0:06:05.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[LAUGHS]
Dialogue: 0,0:06:07.94,0:06:10.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So at the time I was thinking a lot about\Nhow race,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:10.55,0:06:11.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,especially in the U.S.,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:11.92,0:06:13.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is seen as infectious.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:13.90,0:06:16.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Think about China and coronavirus.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.67,0:06:18.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Think about SARS and being in Hong Kong.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:18.94,0:06:22.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And think about Jim Crow era,\Nnot sharing bodies of water.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:23.60,0:06:26.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That idea of it being infected.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:32.18,0:06:36.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These days in Asia, the beauty is smooth,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:36.54,0:06:39.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has no corners,\Ndoes not repulse.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:40.26,0:06:41.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's something about...
Dialogue: 0,0:06:41.53,0:06:44.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,doing this is subverting that balance,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:44.57,0:06:47.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's showing the labor to acquire that smoothness.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:47.48,0:06:50.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And by showing it,\Nit looks like these infectious rings.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:53.28,0:06:57.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But then, also the materials\Nthat's carried in these bulbous forms
Dialogue: 0,0:06:57.37,0:07:00.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are actually semen that's decaying.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:00.19,0:07:02.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I find that very funny.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:02.80,0:07:05.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[LAUGHS]
Dialogue: 0,0:07:10.54,0:07:14.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's very much about\Nhaving forms fitting into each other
Dialogue: 0,0:07:14.20,0:07:18.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and somehow evoking a sense of this uncanniness,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:18.56,0:07:22.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but simultaneously so erotic\Nthat you can't stop.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:22.68,0:07:25.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But to be attracted to it,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:26.32,0:07:28.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that eroticness
Dialogue: 0,0:07:29.00,0:07:30.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,seduces you.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:33.40,0:07:34.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's beauty in the gloss,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:34.96,0:07:37.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the possibility to see your own reflection\Nin it.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:38.90,0:07:39.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the same time,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:39.90,0:07:42.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're actually staring at something that\Nrepulses you,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:42.53,0:07:46.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that actually is considered infectious
Dialogue: 0,0:07:46.20,0:07:47.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or unclean.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:57.36,0:08:01.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My therapist says that I'm so familiar with\Noppression
Dialogue: 0,0:08:01.68,0:08:05.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that danger and risk and oppression makes\Nme feel at home.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:05.87,0:08:09.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I slave myself away in the studio.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:09.60,0:08:12.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or, like, I deprive myself of pleasure
Dialogue: 0,0:08:12.63,0:08:15.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I'm not oppressed\Nas a queer being here.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:15.63,0:08:16.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[LAUGHS]
Dialogue: 0,0:08:18.80,0:08:21.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I oppress myself now.\N[LAUGHS]
Dialogue: 0,0:08:24.44,0:08:26.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because I can't go back if I fail.