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Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.58,0:00:21.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I should've prepared for you guys more.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.36,0:00:23.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Things are a little unruly.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.24,0:00:26.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--Yeah, right on the...
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.22,0:00:28.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--In the same line, right here.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.28,0:00:31.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have this keen interest in
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.25,0:00:35.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not just autonomous, singular objects,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.35,0:00:37.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but whole collections of things.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.66,0:00:42.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Part of the reason I think I'm attracted\Nto collections
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.68,0:00:45.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is because they constitute one person's--
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.84,0:00:47.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or one institution's--
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.16,0:00:49.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,way of seeing the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.03,0:00:52.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's like this little time capsule
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.15,0:00:53.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of things that were important to someone.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.99,0:00:56.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so, I spend a lot of time
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.43,0:01:00.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,looking for the personality of people\Nwithin their collections.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.96,0:01:04.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then maybe even trying to tease out,\Nin a collection,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.06,0:01:05.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,why those things are important.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.62,0:01:13.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the first collection that I received is\NPrairie Avenue Bookstore,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.12,0:01:16.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which was a architectural history bookstore
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.24,0:01:18.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Downtown Chicago.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.50,0:01:22.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The second collection I purchased\Nwas Dr. Wax.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.40,0:01:25.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was a record store in Hyde Park,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.50,0:01:27.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is a neighborhood on the South Side.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.72,0:01:30.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know how many albums...
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.04,0:01:32.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Six thousand.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.04,0:01:33.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Eight thousand.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.04,0:01:34.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A lot of albums.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.10,0:01:38.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the third collection was the University\Nof Chicago's glass lantern slides.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.90,0:01:42.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm using the glass slides to\Nteach art history sometimes.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.66,0:01:45.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes I include them as part of \Nworks of art,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.59,0:01:47.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or they become the works of art themselves--
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.65,0:01:50.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the case of the Jet magazines.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.68,0:01:57.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've taken an amazing canon of\NJohnson Publishing magazines.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.02,0:01:58.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is Jet magazine.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.10,0:02:03.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We had about twelve thousand unbound periodicals.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.68,0:02:11.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had been binding them and color coding them\Nby decade.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.52,0:02:14.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's exciting, this body of work,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.14,0:02:18.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it gets to ask questions about \Nmonochrome painting.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.59,0:02:21.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When they're functioning as a monochrome painting,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.90,0:02:25.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're not necessarily functioning\Nlike an archive.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.40,0:02:27.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, in fact, my hope is that
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.84,0:02:31.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the history and the content that's loaded\Ninside the books
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.40,0:02:34.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will be waiting for people to unearth it.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.94,0:02:40.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As the magazine, it was making the work of\Nthe present.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.66,0:02:42.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It wasn't attempting to make an archive.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.44,0:02:48.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it's so amazing that these bound volumes\Nconstitute the 1990s.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.52,0:02:52.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's a very particular 1990s\NBlack-American experience.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.97,0:02:57.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I feel really fortunate to have been able\Nto bind these things
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.92,0:03:00.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then to make them present\Nin the world again.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.10,0:03:10.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Right now, we're working on archiving\Nthis hardware store.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.84,0:03:13.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The hardware store was, again,\Nkind of like Dr. Wax.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.74,0:03:18.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This amazing guy, Ken,\Nhad owned it for thirty years
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.10,0:03:19.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he was retiring.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.91,0:03:21.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We loved his building,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.91,0:03:23.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but we loved the stuff.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.13,0:03:26.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so, we bought the entire hardware store.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.36,0:03:32.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In changing neighborhoods,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.04,0:03:33.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,poor neighborhoods,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.36,0:03:36.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,neighborhoods where a big box like\NHome Depot might move in,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.72,0:03:40.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what do you do with Ken's legacy?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.11,0:03:43.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How do you catalog the everyday,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.33,0:03:46.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,especially as the phenomena of the everyday\Nis changing?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.31,0:03:51.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And is this another way of\Ntracking Black space?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.46,0:03:56.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Black, not necessarily just about Black people,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.28,0:03:58.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but about forgotten people.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.51,0:04:03.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a space where things have stopped growing.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.08,0:04:06.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then maybe it's also, like, the void.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.28,0:04:10.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like, resources go in,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.40,0:04:12.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you're not sure where they go.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.20,0:04:13.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Black space.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.34,0:04:14.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like...
Dialogue: 0,0:04:16.38,0:04:17.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Galactic space.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:20.58,0:04:22.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These are the things that I'm working with.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:23.50,0:04:26.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm having a lot of fun looking at these objects
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.13,0:04:28.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,both as sculptural objects
Dialogue: 0,0:04:28.19,0:04:32.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and as objects that have the potential to\Ncreate new sculptural works.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:32.29,0:04:33.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the thing,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.36,0:04:34.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's the thing that makes the thing.