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Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.92,0:00:07.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,["New York Close Up"]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.98,0:00:09.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[SOUND OF METAL SNAPPING APART]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.94,0:00:14.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I used to wear these blue-tinted glasses.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.06,0:00:18.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People told me the reason why I'm intense
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.98,0:00:21.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is because I wear those glasses.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.24,0:00:22.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[COFFEE MACHINE WHIRRING]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.66,0:00:26.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They suggested:\N"Why don’t you change it to rose-colored glasses?"
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.74,0:00:30.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anyway, so I made these glasses\Nthat make me
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.88,0:00:33.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,look at the world through aroma of coffee--
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.44,0:00:34.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my favorite thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.56,0:00:38.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I thought maybe I would be romantic\Nif I do this, you know?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.84,0:00:40.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,["Aki Sasamoto is Feeling Stretched"]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.08,0:00:47.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[The Kitchen, Chelsea, Manhattan]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.54,0:00:51.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I plan for a performance
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.51,0:00:55.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thinking it's going to be a structured improvisation,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.06,0:01:00.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and structures or scores are given by the\Ninstallations I make.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.52,0:01:06.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I use performance to get deeper into my interest\Nin storytelling.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.38,0:01:11.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I never know where the project starts,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.74,0:01:17.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but maybe it started when I realized that\NI want to put
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.42,0:01:19.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a trampoline in a dumpster.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.54,0:01:23.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I don't know if the dumpster came because\Nof the trampoline,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.06,0:01:25.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or just because all I wanted to do
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.23,0:01:28.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was jump in and out of the dumpster.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.10,0:01:31.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wanted to experience right here,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.31,0:01:34.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,between underground and aboveground.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.32,0:01:45.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whenever I try to say this piece is about
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.12,0:01:47.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this or that,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.28,0:01:49.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's when it start to feel like\NI'm a liar.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.84,0:01:54.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I almost feel like\NI'm performing to find out
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.10,0:01:55.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,answers for my own questions.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.36,0:02:00.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--To live a peaceful office life,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.88,0:02:02.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--you kind of need to observe
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.76,0:02:08.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--your colleagues' elastic constant.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.28,0:02:14.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--People always love elastic constant,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.10,0:02:17.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--They become lazy, and flaky.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.44,0:02:23.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--These people give you unimaginative excuses
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.76,0:02:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--and don’t come to your home to hang out
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.00,0:02:28.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--once you move to an inconvenient neighborhood.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.00,0:02:36.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--Most incidents in life
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.14,0:02:40.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--can be explained within
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.72,0:02:44.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--the elastic limit.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.42,0:02:49.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lately, I notice that I’m being super stretched and...
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.12,0:02:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tired--
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.28,0:02:55.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,trying to do a day job
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.78,0:02:57.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and trying to do art--
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.24,0:03:03.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I was interested in how much\None can push yourself.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.30,0:03:06.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's why I went to thinking about elasticity
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.78,0:03:09.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and testing that limit.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.06,0:03:11.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm interested in the deformation that happens.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.48,0:03:15.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey]
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.76,0:03:25.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[ARYA TEWATIA]\NThis is a mechanical testing machine.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.56,0:03:26.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Essentially it can pull, push--
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.89,0:03:27.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Arya Tewatia, School of Engineering]
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.89,0:03:29.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rip things apart as need be--
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.47,0:03:32.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to see the finite ends of what the material\Ncan withstand
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.77,0:03:34.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and how it breaks.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.80,0:03:36.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the yield point is really when
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.71,0:03:40.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you stop being able to recover from
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.17,0:03:42.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,any damage you've put onto the materials--\Nbreaking it.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.14,0:03:43.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[SASAMOTO] It's happening…
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.06,0:03:44.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[TEWATIA] Yeah, this one is breaking now.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.20,0:03:44.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[SOUND OF METAL SNAPPING APART]
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.16,0:03:45.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[SASAMOTO] Wow.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.00,0:03:54.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--Every incident in life can be measured by
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.14,0:03:58.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--magnitude of elastic constant.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.38,0:04:01.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--Some people have higher constant.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.92,0:04:07.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--These people tend to be lost in life.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.20,0:04:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--And the lower number represents boredom.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:20.24,0:04:21.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I always had a problem
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.94,0:04:24.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whenever I'm studying or reading about science
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.70,0:04:25.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or mathematics
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.82,0:04:29.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I wanted to experience it.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.82,0:04:34.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So what does it feel like to be a graph myself?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.98,0:04:38.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What does it feel like to put myself
Dialogue: 0,0:04:38.06,0:04:41.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a place of steel being pulled?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:42.12,0:04:44.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[SOUND OF AIRPLANE OVERHEAD]
Dialogue: 0,0:05:00.78,0:05:06.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every time I see a space big enough for me\Nto go inside,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.74,0:05:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I like to put myself there.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.64,0:05:13.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think it's like,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:13.05,0:05:17.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my interest is feeling the skin,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:17.32,0:05:20.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to just know that I'm alive.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:20.38,0:05:21.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[LAUGHS]
Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.22,0:05:28.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This piece kind of told me, after I made it,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.04,0:05:30.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I'm interested in being pulled.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:34.08,0:05:39.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How can I elongate the process of deformation\Nwithout breaking?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:40.64,0:05:42.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that's kind of the question.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:43.40,0:05:46.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then the hypothesis is that
Dialogue: 0,0:05:46.23,0:05:50.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can stay in this area of plastic deformation
Dialogue: 0,0:05:50.95,0:05:52.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and call it beauty--
Dialogue: 0,0:05:55.22,0:05:58.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and hopefully never end it.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:59.92,0:06:03.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--How elastic are you?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:05.50,0:06:06.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--High constant?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.18,0:06:10.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--Risking yourself to be lost?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:14.38,0:06:15.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--Or low constant?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:17.84,0:06:20.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--Risking yourself to be bored?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:25.76,0:06:29.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--Do you want to get bored in your city?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:31.54,0:06:36.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--Do you want to get lost in distant literature?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:39.16,0:06:40.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--Or do you want to flex?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:41.10,0:06:44.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--Do you want to flex between\Nthe different constant?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:44.70,0:06:46.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--Can you do that?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:46.36,0:06:47.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--Can you do that?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:53.82,0:06:58.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--How elastic can you be?