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Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.94,0:00:11.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Barry McGee: Tagging]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.50,0:00:21.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What kids will do just to have their name on something, it's fascinating to me still.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.03,0:00:25.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's just as fascinating as when I was a teenager.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.72,0:00:31.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a strong population that lives on the street in San Francisco.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.71,0:00:41.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Almost any time you'd be doing graffiti, you'd be in contact with other people
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.48,0:00:47.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that move around in that same type of area, and, like, that time of the night.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.41,0:00:51.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes you'd have to run or escape getting caught, and you'd be in some bushes,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.72,0:00:55.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there'd be other people in the bushes already there.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.76,0:00:59.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was always a presence of other people that were doing things,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.36,0:01:05.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or living or surviving somehow on the streets, or on the edges of the city,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.41,0:01:09.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that were just fascinating characters...
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.09,0:01:17.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And always welcoming, like if I was running as fast as I can and ditching my bike in a bush,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.01,0:01:22.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they would just wave me over, like, "Come on over here. Over here--it's no problem..."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.33,0:01:25.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"No one's going to see you over here." [LAUGHS]
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.46,0:01:31.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's immediately how I gauge how healthy a city is--by the amount of tags.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.56,0:01:36.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's just in direct competition with advertising, I feel like.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.47,0:01:40.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's still one of the last things that I think hasn't been, like, corrupted,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.80,0:01:46.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[LAUGHS] ...to me. There's still drones and drones of kids that still do it.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.24,0:01:52.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I still do it on occasion.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.33,0:01:56.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It has to be the perfect storm.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.29,0:02:03.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's something that's uncomfortable about it that's exciting about it.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.33,0:02:07.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's that rush of being outside and getting away with it.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.16,0:02:13.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The satisfaction that you have something sitting out there, for however long,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.30,0:02:17.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,amongst everything else. It just had a life, and it would go and it went,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.61,0:02:20.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then that was it. You have this memory.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.51,0:02:24.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's hard to recreate that in a studio. That's a completely different practice.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.85,0:02:29.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Squeaking and whirring sounds of animatronic metal sculptures in motion]
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.61,0:02:51.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The mannequin--those tagging ones--have always been like illustrations to me, like
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.31,0:02:55.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of like things that friends and I used to do when we were younger.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.11,0:02:59.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our situations we'd be in, like trying to get up higher and higher,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.78,0:03:03.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like getting on each other's shoulders.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.86,0:03:15.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You never see, with tagging, the person actually doing the crime, or the art,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.03,0:03:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or whatever they were doing.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.00,0:03:22.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it became really interesting to me to, like, recreate the situation.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.47,0:03:27.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Whirring sounds of an animatronic metal sculpture in motion]
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.76,0:03:48.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You could leave this exhibition with a better understanding of how
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.66,0:03:52.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,obsessed kids in their mid-20s can be, doing graffiti.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.27,0:03:54.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's more of a guidebook, I feel like.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.97,0:04:04.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The whole thing is like, "We'll take your hand and walk you through it, if you're interested."