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Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.32,0:00:17.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I come from a background in which
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.50,0:00:22.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I never experienced any male members\Nof my family cry.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.94,0:00:33.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That inability to express any level of emotionality
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.13,0:00:35.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was something that I started to question.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.21,0:00:42.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It doesn't allow for weakness nor vulnerability.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.84,0:00:49.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Art became a pathway for me--
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.23,0:00:54.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a way in which I could experience these vulnerabilities
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.86,0:00:59.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and wear them,\Nand share them to an immediate audience.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.66,0:01:05.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Shaun Leonardo: The Freedom to Move]
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.51,0:01:09.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[PLAY-BY-PLAY ANNOUNCER]\N--The quarterback scrambles out,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.05,0:01:12.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--throws a pass that almost gets picked off\Nby Shaun Leonardo.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.22,0:01:17.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[LEONARDO] I played football for\Nover ten years of my life.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.34,0:01:18.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[PLAY-BY-PLAY ANNOUNCER]\N--Leonardo, defensive back playing linebacker.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.93,0:01:21.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,LEONARDO:\NAll of my work stems from that experience,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.08,0:01:23.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of a dual identity between artist and athlete.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.07,0:01:28.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can recall as if it were yesterday,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.59,0:01:33.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a coach that I actually love and I have\Nfond memories of,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.44,0:01:36.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,says to me, as a way to enrage me,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.87,0:01:40.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,says, "I want to you play like they just let\Nyou out of Riker's."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.11,0:01:49.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As a young man--\NI'm 21 at the time--
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.76,0:01:52.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you don't have the wherewithal or the tools
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.18,0:01:55.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to absorb that in any healthy manner.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.02,0:01:56.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so, what happens?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.56,0:01:58.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It works.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.08,0:02:01.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I actually do bring out the rage\Nthat he was looking for.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.47,0:02:03.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[PLAY-BY-PLAY ANNOUNCER]\N--Leonardo is able to push him inside and tackle him.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.85,0:02:07.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--Great play by Shaun Leonardo\Nwith the game-saving tackle there.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.81,0:02:11.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,LEONARDO:\NI'm now 40 years old
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.40,0:02:13.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I'm still thinking about that moment.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.36,0:02:18.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you are marked by your difference,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.65,0:02:21.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by your color, by your perceived identity,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.78,0:02:25.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you become this hyper-visible target.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.78,0:02:32.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's in that hyper-visibility that actually\Nyou become invisible,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.61,0:02:34.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because people see right through you.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.85,0:02:37.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--Are you ready!?\N--Yeah!
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.57,0:02:49.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After college,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.40,0:02:51.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,post my football career,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.64,0:02:54.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I showed up in a Mexican wrestling mask
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.54,0:02:56.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and fought an invisible opponent.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.00,0:03:01.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[FIGHT BELL RINGS]
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.60,0:03:04.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[AUDIENCE CHEERING]
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.85,0:03:07.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,["El Conquistador Vs. The Invisible Man," 2006]
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.73,0:03:11.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With each match, it was important that
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.14,0:03:14.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the audience was left with Shaun Leonardo--
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.77,0:03:18.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the character was stripped
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.41,0:03:21.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that you were left with the person\Nthat felt the need
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.52,0:03:23.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to go through this struggle
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.90,0:03:26.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in order to see himself.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.49,0:03:32.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can you imagine,\Nthere's no one in front of me.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.19,0:03:36.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so, even if something as little as a punch,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.27,0:03:40.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you could register it just like this.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.53,0:03:44.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or if you're in the audience, what's actually\Ngoing to be legible?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.65,0:03:45.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have to be able to...
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.65,0:03:46.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[SOUND OF FIST HITTING OPEN PALM]
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.79,0:03:49.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have to be able to really dramatize it\Nin such a way
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.80,0:03:51.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you foresee it coming
Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.41,0:03:54.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then you see it follow through.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.79,0:04:01.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was offering the spectacle of violence
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.75,0:04:05.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that identity of hyper-masculinity\Nand aggression
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.49,0:04:10.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is so often anticipated\Nfrom a Black body.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.34,0:04:18.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this notion that,\Nas a Black and Brown body,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.05,0:04:21.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we move through the world and serve as a mirror
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.25,0:04:24.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for White people's projections.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.00,0:04:27.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[AUDIENCE CHEERS]
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.43,0:04:28.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--One!
Dialogue: 0,0:04:28.32,0:04:29.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--Two!
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.09,0:04:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--Three!
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.00,0:04:31.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[AUDIENCE CHEERS]
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.19,0:04:38.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,["Self-Portrait," 2010]
Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.36,0:04:46.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then discovering and learning\Nand finding ways to distort that image,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:48.39,0:04:53.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to portray and feel deeply a fuller self
Dialogue: 0,0:04:54.03,0:04:58.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is not contained within these projections\Nor these stereotypes.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.25,0:05:04.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That has been my mandate.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.54,0:05:10.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That has been the very thing that I want\Nto offer to the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:13.38,0:05:17.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--Can anyone describe what was happening in\Ntheir bodies?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:17.58,0:05:19.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[MAN]\N--Very, very uncomfortable for me.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:19.61,0:05:21.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--Like I feel my body getting hot.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:23.66,0:05:28.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wanted to pull more and more people\Ninto that exploration
Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.30,0:05:32.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that it would not be contained\Nto my own narrative.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.20,0:05:38.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was through this strategy of physical embodiment\Nthat I could pull people into it.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:40.13,0:05:43.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wanted people to feel it\Nand to allow their bodies
Dialogue: 0,0:05:43.81,0:05:46.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to say what the piece needed to be.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.13,0:05:50.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,["Primitive Games," 2018]
Dialogue: 0,0:05:50.90,0:05:52.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[AUDIENCE APPLAUSE]
Dialogue: 0,0:05:56.62,0:05:57.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--Participants!
Dialogue: 0,0:05:58.80,0:05:59.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--Ready!
Dialogue: 0,0:06:03.11,0:06:04.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--Bring it!
Dialogue: 0,0:06:05.95,0:06:08.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[DRUMMING ECHOES THROUGHOUT ROTUNDA]
Dialogue: 0,0:06:17.43,0:06:18.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--Left, yes; right, no.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:19.64,0:06:23.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--Do you feel American?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:27.46,0:06:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I really wanted to see if,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:31.00,0:06:35.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by dialing into our experiences of confrontation,\Nof conflict,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:36.66,0:06:41.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we could sense some sort of truth\Nin another person's body,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:41.14,0:06:44.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and therefore question our perceptions of\Nhow we initially read
Dialogue: 0,0:06:44.43,0:06:45.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an other.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:50.56,0:06:52.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[BRASS BAND PLAYS A FUNERAL MARCH]
Dialogue: 0,0:06:52.58,0:06:54.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,["The Eulogy," 2017]
Dialogue: 0,0:06:59.47,0:07:02.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--What are you waiting for me to tell you?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:05.40,0:07:09.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--His name was Trayvon Martin\N[BAND STRIKES]
Dialogue: 0,0:07:09.48,0:07:11.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--and he was unarmed.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:14.70,0:07:18.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I saw the image of Trayvon Martin\Non the news,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:19.22,0:07:22.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so much of my own experience of fear,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:22.63,0:07:25.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the ways that I was being perceived out\Nin the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:25.61,0:07:27.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all came rushing to the surface--
Dialogue: 0,0:07:27.08,0:07:29.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,things that I clearly had buried.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:32.38,0:07:35.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As a young Brown kid growing up in Queens,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:35.96,0:07:40.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I also started thinking about all the young\Nbrothers that I'd left behind.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:41.52,0:07:44.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then asking, "Well, why me?"
Dialogue: 0,0:07:44.78,0:07:47.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why was I the one that was able\Nto make it out?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:47.95,0:07:50.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To go to a good school,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:50.21,0:07:52.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to pursue an MFA,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:52.06,0:07:54.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to live according to my passion.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:56.43,0:07:58.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's taken me a long time to understand
Dialogue: 0,0:07:58.58,0:08:03.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I simply want more people in the world\Nthat look like me
Dialogue: 0,0:08:03.68,0:08:06.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be able to move through the world\Nwith that kind of
Dialogue: 0,0:08:07.08,0:08:08.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,freedom.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:08.65,0:08:12.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--Okay, what we're going to do is just walk.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:14.12,0:08:16.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--Walk naturally.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:18.17,0:08:21.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--Take up as much space as possible.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:21.62,0:08:24.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--Walk your walk.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:24.11,0:08:29.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[In 2017, Shaun co-founded "Assembly," a criminal justice\Ndiversion program at the arts non-profit Recess.]
Dialogue: 0,0:08:31.35,0:08:38.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Youth charged with misdemeanor offenses and criminal\Npossession of a weapon participate as alternative sentencing.]
Dialogue: 0,0:08:39.26,0:08:44.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We move through what I started to describe\Nas a visual storytelling curriculum.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:45.00,0:08:48.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What we do is sculpt the scene of that story
Dialogue: 0,0:08:48.42,0:08:50.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or of that memory.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:50.36,0:08:57.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the storyteller is allowed to look at their\Nstory through a very different set of eyes.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:58.47,0:09:04.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They start to gather more meaning as to how\Nthat narrative is of an individual
Dialogue: 0,0:09:04.03,0:09:07.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and not some preconceived notion of criminality.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:08.13,0:09:10.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[MAN]\N--If he runs, we all got to run.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:12.66,0:09:16.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've had to really deal with\Nthe philosophical crisis
Dialogue: 0,0:09:16.38,0:09:20.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of what it means to be enacting\Nan art space program
Dialogue: 0,0:09:20.76,0:09:25.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I believe has freedom as its central\Nvalue and goal,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:25.93,0:09:27.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and yet,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:27.51,0:09:31.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,still operating in something that is really\Na criminal justice space.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:35.75,0:09:39.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,["Mirror/Echo/Tilt," 2019\NCollaboration with Melanie Crean and Sable Elyse Smith]
Dialogue: 0,0:09:39.46,0:09:41.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The only thing that I've arrived at,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:41.63,0:09:44.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which keeps me in the work,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:44.33,0:09:48.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the personal change that I can sense\Nin these individuals--
Dialogue: 0,0:09:50.53,0:09:54.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in these young people that are\Nthe young people I grew up with.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:57.68,0:10:00.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I always return to the same thing:
Dialogue: 0,0:10:00.37,0:10:04.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the art is the very thing that has power\Nin this space
Dialogue: 0,0:10:04.69,0:10:06.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it is unfixed.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:07.12,0:10:09.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It cannot be defined.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:13.90,0:10:19.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By being able to really exist\Nin your own body
Dialogue: 0,0:10:19.02,0:10:24.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and understand that you do not need to be\Ndefined by an experience--
Dialogue: 0,0:10:25.36,0:10:27.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in this case, arrest and incarceration--
Dialogue: 0,0:10:30.24,0:10:35.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it allows you to move forward with\Na little more sense of joy;
Dialogue: 0,0:10:37.28,0:10:40.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what Ta-Nehisi Coates describes as\N"the beautiful struggle."
Dialogue: 0,0:10:42.54,0:10:45.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's by being in your full self
Dialogue: 0,0:10:45.26,0:10:47.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and attempting to live,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:47.91,0:10:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that can never be taken away.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:51.17,0:10:56.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To get anyone to start imagining possibilities\Nfor themselves again,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:57.16,0:11:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is what we all should be after.