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Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.02,0:00:24.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(poignant music)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.61,0:00:27.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(awe-inspiring organ music)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.28,0:00:32.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(awe-inspiring organ music continues)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.20,0:00:37.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- I've spent my entire\Nlife making pictures,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.40,0:00:39.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I don't hold any delusions
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.40,0:00:43.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about the transformative\Npower of artworks.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.44,0:00:47.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not enough people ever see\Nthem to interrupt the dynamism
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.48,0:00:52.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the challenges we face\Nliving from day to day.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.88,0:00:55.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what they can do, however,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.64,0:01:01.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is to invite us to imagine\Noneself as a subject
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.20,0:01:05.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and an author of a never-ending story
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.24,0:01:08.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is still yet to be told.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.40,0:01:10.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, this is what I've tried to do
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.68,0:01:14.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and tried to accomplish\Nwith words, images,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.60,0:01:16.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and colored glass
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.76,0:01:29.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for right here and for right now.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.82,0:01:45.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(gentle upbeat music)\N(birds chirping)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.02,0:01:46.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(stirrer clinking)\NI came to the cathedral
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.56,0:01:49.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to have a discussion about the project,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.40,0:01:51.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which was to change out the Robert E. Lee
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.68,0:01:55.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Stonewall Jackson windows.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.92,0:01:58.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I understood it was gonna\Ntake a lot of thinking,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.60,0:01:59.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,especially in relationship
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.84,0:02:03.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the transformation the\Ncathedral was trying to enact.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.04,0:02:08.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a big kind of\Nmonumental undertaking,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.68,0:02:10.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you have to figure out\Nwhether you're gonna be able
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.68,0:02:17.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to meet the moment.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.06,0:02:17.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(gentle haunting music)
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.08,0:02:19.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the founding documents\Nof the United States,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.60,0:02:23.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's a clause that\Nprovides for the population
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.24,0:02:26.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to seek some redress for\Nthe grievance that you have.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.52,0:02:29.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's built into the\Nstructure of the country,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.92,0:02:34.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which means that over time,\Nyou're engaged in a process
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.36,0:02:41.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of revision that requires\Nstruggle that's ongoing.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.20,0:02:48.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's always ongoing.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.05,0:02:49.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(crowd applauds and cheers)\NWhen Harold Washington
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.92,0:02:54.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,became the first Black\Nmayor elected in Chicago,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.28,0:02:59.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he said something that\Nstruck me at the time,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.60,0:03:00.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he said...
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.38,0:03:04.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- No one, no matter where they live
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.28,0:03:07.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or how they live is free
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.56,0:03:09.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the fairness of our administration.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.92,0:03:13.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- This is how I came to this idea.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.52,0:03:17.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's that "we want\Nfairness, not no foul play."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.64,0:03:22.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That seemed to me to be\Na conceptual relationship
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.96,0:03:25.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I thought could do the work
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.36,0:03:29.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I want these windows to do.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.66,0:03:36.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(gentle haunting music continues)
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.56,0:03:41.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is where humidity is gonna\Ngive you some fits. (laughs)
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.78,0:03:42.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [Fabricator] Is it running?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.68,0:03:47.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- No, but the red wasn't completely dry.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.46,0:03:49.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [Fabricator] Oh, it wasn't?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.56,0:03:53.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- I'm just curious to see if it...
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.12,0:03:56.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a heating element\Nin that ceramic coil.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.27,0:03:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [Kerry] But there the problem\Nis you gotta stand there
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.00,0:03:58.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with that.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.78,0:04:01.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- I can get a chair.\N(Kerry and fabricator laugh)
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.94,0:04:02.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [Kerry] See, that's just as bad.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.78,0:04:04.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- It might be hard to see,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.12,0:04:08.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the original concept was\Ndone with a colored pencil.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.36,0:04:12.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The colors we selected from\Nthat palette translated well
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.52,0:04:16.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into kind of what becomes\Na living piece of art
Dialogue: 0,0:04:16.40,0:04:21.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that changes every day with\Nthe sun and the clouds.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.60,0:04:24.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So trying to translate all\Nthese different variables
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.60,0:04:27.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was the most challenging part for me
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.12,0:04:29.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but also the most gratifying.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.60,0:04:31.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(gentle music)
Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.08,0:04:35.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- I chose to use a group
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.76,0:04:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of anonymous individuals
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.00,0:04:43.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I think we tend to make\Ncelebrities the focal point
Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.56,0:04:47.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of any kind of achievement,\Nwhen for the most part,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.64,0:04:51.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,almost all the achievements we experience
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.92,0:04:56.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are the work of vast numbers
Dialogue: 0,0:04:56.56,0:05:00.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of anonymous and unidentified people
Dialogue: 0,0:05:00.04,0:05:08.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who put in the work on a day-to-day basis.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:08.29,0:05:08.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(pensive music)\N(traffic honking)
Dialogue: 0,0:05:08.32,0:05:11.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was born in 1955.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.76,0:05:14.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was alive to experience\Nthe assassination
Dialogue: 0,0:05:14.72,0:05:17.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the president of the United States,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:17.16,0:05:19.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which, for an eight-year-old,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:19.64,0:05:23.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was a shocking occurrence.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:23.80,0:05:25.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Two years after that,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.40,0:05:28.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we were in the middle of the Watts riots.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.88,0:05:31.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By 1968,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:31.12,0:05:34.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was a witness to the shootouts
Dialogue: 0,0:05:34.40,0:05:36.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,between the LA Police Department
Dialogue: 0,0:05:36.48,0:05:39.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the Black Panther Party.\N(chopper blades humming)
Dialogue: 0,0:05:39.32,0:05:41.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Vietnam War was raging.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:41.68,0:05:44.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Martin Luther King Jr. was killed.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:44.12,0:05:46.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malcolm X was killed.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:46.36,0:05:49.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you talk about volatility,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.08,0:05:54.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm conditioned by that\Nkind of volatility,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:54.72,0:05:57.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that's just the political volatility.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:57.16,0:06:00.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's not to mention the kind\Nof neighborhood challenges
Dialogue: 0,0:06:00.32,0:06:02.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you have to negotiate
Dialogue: 0,0:06:02.64,0:06:06.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in order to make it from\None day to the next.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:06.24,0:06:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All those things\Ncontribute to a perception
Dialogue: 0,0:06:10.00,0:06:13.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of how you move through the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:13.40,0:06:20.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,survive in the world, and\Nwhat your expectations can be.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:20.62,0:06:20.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(slow solemn music)
Dialogue: 0,0:06:20.64,0:06:24.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the backdrop against\Nwhich I as an artist
Dialogue: 0,0:06:24.76,0:06:28.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have to conceptualize the\Nimagery I'm gonna produce
Dialogue: 0,0:06:28.56,0:06:43.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the value I think it\Nwill have for the culture.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:43.25,0:06:47.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(slow solemn music continues)\NThey read beautifully.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:47.84,0:06:54.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- It is cool when you walk up\Nthe aisle, and you watch it,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:54.26,0:06:55.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's a different light coming out
Dialogue: 0,0:06:55.92,0:06:57.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of this bay than all the others.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:57.38,0:06:58.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Yeah, well, they're different.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:58.44,0:06:59.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, if you...
Dialogue: 0,0:07:00.88,0:07:03.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean they're not\Nanywhere near as fragmented
Dialogue: 0,0:07:03.36,0:07:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as most of the other images\Nin all the other windows.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:07.00,0:07:11.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They present themselves with a clarity.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:11.04,0:07:16.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It does what I wanted it to do. (laughs)
Dialogue: 0,0:07:16.40,0:07:19.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Formally, the movement from the bottom
Dialogue: 0,0:07:19.96,0:07:22.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the top is really important
Dialogue: 0,0:07:22.68,0:07:27.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it's like down here\Non the ground in the crucible
Dialogue: 0,0:07:27.04,0:07:29.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where all of these sort of needs
Dialogue: 0,0:07:29.80,0:07:33.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and desires are fought for
Dialogue: 0,0:07:33.48,0:07:36.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is where the heat is always generated.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:36.36,0:07:40.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as we achieve more of the kinds
Dialogue: 0,0:07:40.04,0:07:45.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of ideal conditions we look for,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:45.12,0:07:50.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it requires less of that\Nkind of energy and agitation.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:50.32,0:07:53.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Although in the upper part,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:53.08,0:07:57.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's a kind of oscillating\Nback-and-forth dynamic
Dialogue: 0,0:07:57.68,0:08:01.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,between the colors and the whiteness
Dialogue: 0,0:08:01.32,0:08:03.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of some of the glass shapes
Dialogue: 0,0:08:03.20,0:08:06.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that even in that upper part
Dialogue: 0,0:08:06.48,0:08:10.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that seems chromatically more tranquil,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:10.12,0:08:12.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's still an\Nincredible amount of energy
Dialogue: 0,0:08:12.32,0:08:15.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and back and forth going on.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:15.12,0:08:16.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wanted that too,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:16.56,0:08:27.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that achievement doesn't\Nnecessarily mean complacency.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:27.38,0:08:28.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(gentle haunting music)\NIf you look at history,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:28.80,0:08:31.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the success that the United\NStates enjoys is accompanied
Dialogue: 0,0:08:31.88,0:08:34.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by a legacy of brutality,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:34.44,0:08:39.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not just here in the United\NStates, but all over the place.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:39.20,0:08:42.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Out of the crucible of\Nall of that violence,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:42.28,0:08:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all the warfare, all the\Ncolonial impositions,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:46.00,0:08:49.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,out of the crucible of all of that,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:49.12,0:08:53.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we got a chance to live.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:53.08,0:08:58.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the chance to live that\Nwe got makes us obligated
Dialogue: 0,0:08:58.12,0:09:02.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to do whatever we can to\Nguarantee that those processes
Dialogue: 0,0:09:02.68,0:09:06.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that were played out before we arrived
Dialogue: 0,0:09:06.08,0:09:08.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are not repeated in the same way
Dialogue: 0,0:09:08.36,0:09:13.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the moment we are here on.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:13.60,0:09:17.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what the replacement\Nof those windows means.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:21.50,0:09:34.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(solemn music)
Dialogue: 0,0:09:34.42,0:09:44.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(solemn music continues)\N(solemn music fading)
Dialogue: 0,0:09:50.78,0:09:52.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hi, my name is Julie Mehretu.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:52.72,0:09:59.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I was really blessed to be\Nfeatured by Art21 in 2009.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:59.64,0:10:01.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Susan Sollins was directing at the time,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:01.60,0:10:04.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I was really fortunate enough to have met her.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:04.12,0:10:07.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What an incredible person to \Nhave started such a project.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:07.44,0:10:11.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the archive of films of \Nartists' practice in the depth of
Dialogue: 0,0:10:11.96,0:10:16.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,research that has gone into the \Narchive of Art21 is incredible.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:16.36,0:10:18.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's an immense resource for any young artist
Dialogue: 0,0:10:18.72,0:10:22.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and any practicing artist who wants to look into
Dialogue: 0,0:10:22.52,0:10:25.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all these various practices and forms of making.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:25.56,0:10:27.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I grew up in the Midwest,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:27.08,0:10:28.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I know more than,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:29.40,0:10:34.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as does anyone coming from cities\Nthat are not either New York or Los Angeles
Dialogue: 0,0:10:34.44,0:10:38.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that are not these primal coastal art centers,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:38.96,0:10:43.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the value of the smaller museums and collections.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:43.12,0:10:45.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when I grew up,\Nyou didn't have the MCA in Chicago,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:45.44,0:10:50.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you didn't have MOCAD in Detroit,\Nyou didn't have an art center in Grand Rapids.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:50.16,0:10:54.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There really was nothing outside of the\NDIA and the Art Institute.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:54.16,0:10:56.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And these were encyclopedic type of museums.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:57.72,0:11:02.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And now, yes, you have many more of these\Ncontemporary art museums all over this country,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:02.56,0:11:07.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but many students still don't have access to\Nthe form of education and the form of practice
Dialogue: 0,0:11:07.84,0:11:09.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that this archive offers.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:09.64,0:11:13.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's what I think is one of the\Nrichest aspects of this,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:13.36,0:11:20.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the kind of depth of education and access\Nyou can have into these various practices.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:20.04,0:11:22.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's only going to \Nmove the whole field forward.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:22.52,0:11:24.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So thank you, Art21.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:24.40,0:11:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you Susan Sollins for an incredible vision\Nin having commenced this incredible project,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:30.00,0:11:33.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I hope that you'll consider to support\Nthis immense project.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:33.84,0:11:36.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you so much.