WEBVTT 00:00:09.635 --> 00:00:11.923 (Laughter) 00:00:13.488 --> 00:00:15.934 This is what it feels like in my city all the time: super tense. 00:00:17.751 --> 00:00:19.051 Diana Al-Hadid--Artiste 00:00:20.136 --> 00:00:21.146 "What’s gonna happen?" [lauhgs] 00:00:21.155 --> 00:00:22.441 Applicationeffetsonores-iPhone de Ryan 00:00:22.519 --> 00:00:25.156 "You should do quick steps there" 00:00:25.310 --> 00:00:27.086 "And then..." 00:00:27.178 --> 00:00:29.524 [scratching sound] 00:00:29.586 --> 00:00:31.100 "How is the beat studio?" 00:00:31.100 --> 00:00:32.753 "Boom!" 00:00:32.753 --> 00:00:35.261 "What up!" 00:00:35.261 --> 00:00:36.924 "You gonna carry it sexy" 00:00:37.212 --> 00:00:38.178 [laughing] "Yeah" 00:00:38.921 --> 00:00:41.326 [music] 00:00:44.064 --> 00:00:46.812 [sounds of blowtorch] 00:00:48.791 --> 00:00:54.364 Four years ago this whole floor was just one empty space 00:00:55.071 --> 00:00:59.319 [sounds of drilling] 00:00:59.319 --> 00:01:04.000 There was no plumbing there was no heaters, there was no electrical 00:01:04.873 --> 00:01:06.450 Does it look level to you? 00:01:06.800 --> 00:01:11.725 Lucky for me, I got it grant and I partitioned to move it out 00:01:11.725 --> 00:01:13.972 some of it is rented to other artists. 00:01:14.369 --> 00:01:19.247 And I curved out a space for myself that was way bigger than I ever dreamt 00:01:20.265 --> 00:01:23.389 I was taking on too much in figuring out how to make it happen. 00:01:23.482 --> 00:01:28.532 It's real. It works. Sort of. 00:01:29.569 --> 00:01:34.717 When I first moved to New-York, my studio was maybe 700 sq feet 00:01:36.152 --> 00:01:41.306 I made sculptures within inches of the walls, it was really difficult, 00:01:41.798 --> 00:01:45.384 Especially for the work that I made. It taugh me how to be efficient, 00:01:46.191 --> 00:01:50.668 how to save space, how to save money and especially how to save time. 00:01:50.887 --> 00:01:56.285 Cause no one helps me, and when you don’t have a lot of resources, you get sharp. 00:01:57.487 --> 00:02:01.515 [inaudible speaking] 00:02:03.280 --> 00:02:04.966 Yeah! 00:02:05.675 --> 00:02:09.258 [hammering and drilling noise] 00:02:09.590 --> 00:02:12.509 This past year I had a pretty fast growth. 00:02:14.168 --> 00:02:17.402 It just impossible to do this alone on this scale. 00:02:17.922 --> 00:02:20.381 Do you have a bucket for me? Yes! 00:02:21.585 --> 00:02:25.565 So, now I have assistants that help me make these things. 00:02:36.349 --> 00:02:40.835 That's also why I have a studio manager to allocate different tasks to people 00:02:40.955 --> 00:02:43.921 now I can focus on something that requires my attention. 00:02:44.590 --> 00:02:48.704 Working on a set this large is amazing, it’s so much fun 00:02:48.868 --> 00:02:50.106 [Diana laughs] 00:02:50.106 --> 00:02:52.870 "When I was first working for her I was her only assistant." 00:02:55.682 --> 00:03:00.945 "I spent like 6 months working really closely with just her I learnt a lot about all different techniques." 00:03:01.176 --> 00:03:03.398 'It might just be that one rod". 00:03:03.923 --> 00:03:05.666 "You are great" 00:03:05.681 --> 00:03:07.994 "She’a kind of a “go big or go home” person" 00:03:08.265 --> 00:03:09.813 "Yes, why won’t I want it there?" 00:03:09.814 --> 00:03:14.996 "Everything is like balls to the wall, giant sculptures." 00:03:16.167 --> 00:03:20.196 "And all the process here are really specific, and a little bit weird and unique" 00:03:20.807 --> 00:03:28.517 "So largely what I do is training other people, on how to do something in the way that Diana wants it done." 00:03:29.013 --> 00:03:34.898 All this stuff I do people can learn. It’s really easy. I think. Everything I do is easy. 00:03:34.898 --> 00:03:36.081 "Yeah, but it also like watching the master at work." 00:03:36.081 --> 00:03:37.201 [Diana laughs] 00:03:37.927 --> 00:03:42.731 I mean to touch fiber glass like you do, to hold it, you can’t do it yourself. 00:03:42.896 --> 00:03:44.095 "I’m much faster." 00:03:44.095 --> 00:03:45.928 Yeah, and you make it look more natural. 00:03:50.499 --> 00:03:53.364 It was kind of messy here for many years. 00:03:53.614 --> 00:03:56.298 Because of Nick, now I look like a professional. 00:03:57.284 --> 00:04:03.696 "She likes receipts, keeping track of everything to the penny, so that’s actually a difficult part. 00:04:04.176 --> 00:04:10.686 Tons of details. [laughs] Exciting details. 00:04:10.686 --> 00:04:13.048 John and I have a competition. 00:04:14.010 --> 00:04:20.464 It’s like I have to get her in the office, and he has to get her on the studio on the same day. So we split her." 00:04:20.848 --> 00:04:25.639 [inaudible background conversation] 00:04:27.202 --> 00:04:28.223 Everybody's going outside 00:04:31.619 --> 00:04:38.536 This is like a really great working environment. It’s really nice being here Im definitely learning a lot 00:04:38.536 --> 00:04:41.205 but on the other hand it is really time consuming. 00:04:42.296 --> 00:04:47.040 So I think there’ll come a point at which I need to go do my own thing now. 00:04:48.915 --> 00:04:53.416 The hardest part of leaving here will be the fact that we laugh so much at work 00:04:57.795 --> 00:05:04.051 I mean it’s serious here, we are getting shit done, but the fact that the vibe is really relax is so nice. 00:05:04.672 --> 00:05:06.704 [inaudible speaking] 00:05:10.291 --> 00:05:13.095 There’s huge change that happens at the end, 00:05:13.095 --> 00:05:18.393 like once everything got attached and a lot of the big main decisions are made. 00:05:19.076 --> 00:05:23.778 My focus is on these minuscule details, the knots in the books. 00:05:24.840 --> 00:05:30.441 There are still supports, like here there is little ones inside here, and here. 00:05:30.441 --> 00:05:37.122 And this drips kind of obscure where the supports are. To make it looks like you are in the scifi kind of world 00:05:37.122 --> 00:05:39.397 That the rules of physics are being bent. 00:05:40.543 --> 00:05:46.013 Elements come on and come off, so my job is predicating some of those things. 00:05:46.663 --> 00:05:52.542 We are like very geeky about ways to problem solve large complicated sculptures. 00:05:53.993 --> 00:06:00.862 The sculptures itself is not built in a rational way. It has more of an aesthetic goal rather than a tectonic one. 00:06:01.676 --> 00:06:09.277 So the things I am working mostly right now are construction manuals on how to assemble one of these things. 00:06:09.744 --> 00:06:14.289 I am always running out to the studio measuring pieces and coming back to the computer. 00:06:14.811 --> 00:06:21.942 It’s part of the sculpture that you don’t see. These instruction manuals will stay with the sculptures for the rest of its life. 00:06:25.085 --> 00:06:29.698 Sometimes I ll get home after working here, and then I have a lot of dreams about cutting, gluing, 00:06:29.698 --> 00:06:33.218 and I am not sure if I am dreaming about doing her work or doing my work. 00:06:33.218 --> 00:06:35.685 And in the end it doesn’t make a big difference to me. 00:06:46.320 --> 00:06:50.768 What we are doing in the studio together is our own problem for a while. 00:06:52.041 --> 00:06:58.885 And at some point, it will be the world problem. Forever. [laughs] 00:06:59.916 --> 00:07:07.275 The art world is really temperamental, so I could be down to myself next year, who knows. 00:07:08.671 --> 00:07:11.844 But I am careful, and I try to be prepared for luck. 00:07:13.810 --> 00:07:21.657 Artist are some of the savviest, inventive people, they have to manage a really illogical pursuit, 00:07:22.367 --> 00:07:25.324 the rest of the world is a lot more logical. 00:07:27.306 --> 00:07:37.544 Every artist I know is dealing with lot of stress, and a lot of desire; and a lot of curiosity. 00:07:40.901 --> 00:07:49.108 They are kind of sneaky undercover people like you and me so be careful, we're everywhere. 00:07:52.339 --> 00:07:54.240 Cleans party!