1 00:00:02,800 --> 00:00:06,440 [Liz Magor: Everyone Should Have A Studio] 2 00:00:06,440 --> 00:00:09,830 If I'm not here, I want to be here. 3 00:00:10,260 --> 00:00:11,720 And I want to work. 4 00:00:16,480 --> 00:00:17,760 It's a quiet space. 5 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:19,060 It has really good light. 6 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:21,220 The light comes from the East. 7 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:26,280 A lot of people don't know I'm here. 8 00:00:26,700 --> 00:00:28,540 I don't have my name on the door. 9 00:00:29,480 --> 00:00:32,180 I meet my friends outside of the studio. 10 00:00:36,180 --> 00:00:38,920 It's my space--totally my space. 11 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:49,840 Working might be a placating or calming situation 12 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:52,680 where I have no distractions. 13 00:00:58,400 --> 00:01:00,900 I was going to say it's like meditating, but what do I know about meditating? 14 00:01:00,900 --> 00:01:02,380 [LAUGHS] Not very much! 15 00:01:02,380 --> 00:01:08,120 It's a way to keep myself on a single focus-- 16 00:01:08,670 --> 00:01:10,080 on a single track-- 17 00:01:10,080 --> 00:01:12,880 and there's something pleasurable about that. 18 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:17,000 So I'm here for pleasure, in a way, 19 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:20,340 although it's not fun. 20 00:01:35,500 --> 00:01:39,540 When I cast my material into this mold of a paper bag, 21 00:01:39,540 --> 00:01:41,210 then I get a positive. 22 00:01:41,210 --> 00:01:43,410 That yellow will come to the outside. 23 00:01:44,200 --> 00:01:49,640 And it's part of my wanting to make these objects have some 24 00:01:49,650 --> 00:01:52,130 vitality or vivaciousness. 25 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:56,490 The contents are going to be pushing for your attention. 26 00:01:57,120 --> 00:02:01,220 The yellow is pushing to get the bag to be alive. 27 00:02:07,409 --> 00:02:10,149 I keep the studio in a very rudimentary state 28 00:02:10,149 --> 00:02:14,290 in terms of the technology and the systems that I use. 29 00:02:14,290 --> 00:02:16,910 I'm not investing in equipment-- 30 00:02:17,419 --> 00:02:18,919 I'm not a factory. 31 00:02:19,549 --> 00:02:20,959 It's because I want to be able 32 00:02:20,959 --> 00:02:24,900 to quit whatever thing I might be interested in 33 00:02:24,900 --> 00:02:27,180 and move on to a completely different thing. 34 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:31,980 I'm thinking, so I need to be mobile. 35 00:02:32,660 --> 00:02:34,020 This might sound pretentious, 36 00:02:34,020 --> 00:02:36,700 but it's like a place for physical philosophy. 37 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:44,860 I talk a lot about the "below the radar" 38 00:02:44,870 --> 00:02:48,230 or the "ever-present-but-unacknowledged" things. 39 00:02:48,230 --> 00:02:53,680 And to me, these are part of that realm because they're brilliant. 40 00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:55,060 This is brilliant! 41 00:02:56,620 --> 00:02:59,480 And I want my mold making to register them. 42 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:03,360 Although that's... 43 00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:04,840 those are air bubbles. 44 00:03:08,670 --> 00:03:11,090 --So this is the front and that's the back. 45 00:03:11,090 --> 00:03:14,930 --And the front has fragile things sticking out. 46 00:03:17,880 --> 00:03:20,160 I need a very quiet studio, 47 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:22,820 because a work starts with me acknowledging 48 00:03:22,829 --> 00:03:28,109 those ever-present, not noisy operations in the world. 49 00:03:29,060 --> 00:03:32,560 They're always there, but they're not always acknowledged. 50 00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:36,020 Those are the things I'm interested in. 51 00:03:40,379 --> 00:03:42,019 Everyone should have a studio. 52 00:03:43,099 --> 00:03:47,879 They should be issued by the government as health-mandated items. 53 00:03:48,180 --> 00:03:49,680 Because it is a place where you 54 00:03:49,689 --> 00:03:54,829 kind of line up all those dissonances 55 00:03:55,720 --> 00:03:57,620 and have a good look.