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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.09,0:00:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(orchestral music)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.71,0:00:07.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Hi everyone, welcome to\Nthe Cooking Show today.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.86,0:00:09.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Thank you so much for joining me.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.00,0:00:13.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We'll be building, we'll be cooking,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.68,0:00:15.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we'll be having a great time.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.29,0:00:25.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I started making videos,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.41,0:00:28.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was just watching on\Nmy downtime on YouTube,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.26,0:00:31.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a lot of aspirational\Nmedia like cooking shows
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.17,0:00:35.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and music videos and home improvement TV.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.83,0:00:40.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was playing around with maybe\Nthe formal elements of how
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.95,0:00:44.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the material world is shown\Ninside of these things
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.94,0:00:49.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that are halfway advertising\Nand halfway instructional.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.27,0:00:59.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Then I started to really\Nthink about the hosts
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.76,0:01:04.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of these things, the perfection\Nthat is tempered with
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.08,0:01:07.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this often sort of fake\Nor performed vulnerability
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.88,0:01:10.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where it seems like certain\Nthings that are probably
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.98,0:01:14.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,beyond most of our own grasp\Ncould be graspable or held.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.62,0:01:21.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We'll be right back.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.49,0:01:24.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(upbeat music)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.99,0:01:27.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I grew up in central Brooklyn.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.48,0:01:30.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think I was a pretty\Nsort of solitary kid.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.34,0:01:35.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would spend a lot of time\Njust kind of looking at things,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.22,0:01:38.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,surfaces and the outsides of buildings,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.43,0:01:41.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sort of making up stories for myself.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.32,0:01:45.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this is the house I grew up in.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.33,0:01:48.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We like to take a kind\Nof laissez-faire approach
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.18,0:01:49.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the front lawn.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.06,0:01:53.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was doing a lot of things\Nthat would sort of seem like
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.94,0:01:57.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,art or felt like art\Nfrom a pretty young age.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.40,0:02:02.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was like the space where\Nthe world made sense for me.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.34,0:02:04.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This one is like a Halloween,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.26,0:02:06.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think I was a dead house wife,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.06,0:02:08.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's what I said I was that year.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.31,0:02:12.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Even at this age, she was stubborn,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.30,0:02:14.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she kind of knew what she wanted to do.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.20,0:02:17.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She had her own mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.88,0:02:20.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(upbeat music)
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.18,0:02:30.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Early on actually, I had\Ncalled myself a painter.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.42,0:02:35.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I think really what\Nattracted me to that
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.43,0:02:37.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was like paint itself.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.31,0:02:42.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The sort of alchemical magical\Nway colors came together
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.15,0:02:44.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the surface of a canvas.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.85,0:02:50.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I realized that like state of becoming
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.94,0:02:52.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was what was really exciting to me.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.24,0:02:56.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's how I started making\Nvideo, actually was sort of
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.55,0:03:00.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,recording myself in the\Nprocess of making paintings
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.15,0:03:01.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then remixing that
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.44,0:03:04.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or reediting that later on to share
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.14,0:03:06.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what I really cared\Nabout with other people.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.78,0:03:10.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(upbeat music)
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.29,0:03:13.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then that evolved into\Nsculptures and installations
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.65,0:03:17.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to sort of house and\Nrecontextualize those moving images.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.87,0:03:20.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(upbeat music)
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.73,0:03:27.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh look, here's you with\Nyour beautiful face mask.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.01,0:03:35.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- If my kids ask me to\Ngo to the moon with them,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.64,0:03:37.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm gonna try to go there.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.92,0:03:41.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, I'm learning, she's teaching me.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.19,0:03:45.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's what artists\Ndo, they enlighten us
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.75,0:03:49.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because they see things\Non a subconscious level.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.53,0:03:54.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- I knew that my mom was such a ham.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.10,0:03:59.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I never saw her actually\Ncooking food in the kitchen
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.31,0:04:02.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when we were growing up, but\Nwe had these long mirrors
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.28,0:04:04.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in front of the kitchen and\Nshe would do these sort of like
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.71,0:04:07.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fake Julia Child's\Nperformances for herself
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.98,0:04:10.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and maybe like burn a piece\Nof toast and then walk away.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.92,0:04:15.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Today I'll be showing you\Nmy daily clean beauty routine.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.63,0:04:18.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This one is so much fun to use.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.45,0:04:20.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm going to show you how to make this.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.63,0:04:24.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- So it felt really natural\Nto sort of invite her
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.03,0:04:26.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into my process in that way.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:28.05,0:04:31.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- It smells like Cheetos.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.20,0:04:34.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- I do like to kind of\Noperate in this space
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.08,0:04:36.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where the videos at\Nfirst look like something
Dialogue: 0,0:04:36.45,0:04:39.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're really familiar\Nwith, and then I start to
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.12,0:04:41.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,insert these uncomfortable things,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.49,0:04:45.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,maybe these uncomfortable\Ntruths into a familiar form,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.16,0:04:49.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then sort of see what happens
Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.05,0:04:51.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when that friction comes up.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:56.22,0:04:57.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- I think a lot of these themes
Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.60,0:04:59.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I think about like aspiration
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.88,0:05:03.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and how we try to seek\Ncontrol over our lives,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:03.96,0:05:07.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they come so much to the forefront\Nin this space of wellness
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.56,0:05:08.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and wellness culture.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:08.67,0:05:11.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And our bodies are obviously\Nthe site where so many
Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.55,0:05:13.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of these things really play out.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:17.25,0:05:21.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 2019, that company, Mirror,\Nstarted doing a lot of ads
Dialogue: 0,0:05:21.93,0:05:23.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the subway.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:24.60,0:05:27.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You could have this instructor\Nbeam straight into your room
Dialogue: 0,0:05:27.93,0:05:30.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it could look like high-end design
Dialogue: 0,0:05:30.12,0:05:31.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they could be kind of coaxing you out
Dialogue: 0,0:05:31.89,0:05:33.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of whatever into exercising.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:34.71,0:05:37.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so I just wanted to try to make my own
Dialogue: 0,0:05:37.86,0:05:39.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and see what would happen.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:39.87,0:05:42.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(downbeat music)
Dialogue: 0,0:05:48.21,0:05:51.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I thought about them kind of\Nlike haunted medicine cabinets.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:54.63,0:05:56.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Rather than giving you clear instruction
Dialogue: 0,0:05:56.94,0:06:01.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about how to work out or\Nwhat the weather is like,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:01.32,0:06:04.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're just as much sort of\Nasking you for instruction
Dialogue: 0,0:06:04.77,0:06:07.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or giving confounding advice
Dialogue: 0,0:06:07.26,0:06:10.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or they're playing CAPTCHA tests
Dialogue: 0,0:06:10.44,0:06:12.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and maybe wanting you to\Nhelp them out with them.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:14.52,0:06:17.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(downbeat music)
Dialogue: 0,0:06:20.19,0:06:23.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I called the piece Needy\NMachines in that way
Dialogue: 0,0:06:23.16,0:06:26.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I thought of these\Nobjects as sort of needy.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:28.95,0:06:31.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But also wondering within this\Nspace, especially the space
Dialogue: 0,0:06:31.74,0:06:35.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the bathroom, if we are\Nneedy machines somehow.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:42.51,0:06:44.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think it's also a friction I'm living
Dialogue: 0,0:06:44.25,0:06:45.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with constantly, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:45.48,0:06:46.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I think we all are.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.45,0:06:51.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Between the sort of space of\Nfantasy we want to live in
Dialogue: 0,0:06:53.76,0:06:55.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then the truth that we kind of know
Dialogue: 0,0:06:55.85,0:06:57.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even in an embodied way
Dialogue: 0,0:06:58.82,0:07:01.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about the instability of everything.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:02.26,0:07:05.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(downbeat music)