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Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.99,0:00:18.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are two thinkers, Italian thinkers, that I admire greatly - Antonio Gramsci, and Pier Paolo Pasolini.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.62,0:00:26.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was invited to series of exhibitions in Italy last year. And I wanted to make an homage to both men.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.11,0:00:33.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the world of culture today, I miss Gramsci and I miss Pasolini.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.01,0:00:41.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I miss Gramsci because he was one of the first thinkers who really believed in power of culture to affect life,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.60,0:00:45.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To affect social life, to affect political life.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.03,0:00:48.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Pasolini was an artist like no other.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.09,0:00:57.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was a thinker, a filmmaker, a poet, a writer, a critic. He was writing and working in all directions.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.79,0:01:01.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I miss today Gramsci and Pasolini.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.48,0:01:09.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What brought me to this piece in particular was, in one of Pasolini's writings,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.59,0:01:13.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He says that culture is a prison.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.85,0:01:20.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we intellectuals have to get out of that prison.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.58,0:01:25.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Enough of me speaking to you and you speaking to me,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.62,0:01:32.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Me applauding to you and you applauding to me. Let's get out. Let's reach a larger audience.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.66,0:01:40.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I realized that this could have been my motto for many, many years.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.14,0:01:48.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And for the last 25 years, I have always been looking for different ways of communication.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.65,0:01:54.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And each work employs a different strategy of communication, in order to reach a larger public.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.07,0:01:59.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In order to make sense.