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Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.13,0:00:10.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,MARK BRADFORD: You know \Nwhat? Let’s just put it up.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.40,0:00:11.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,SPEAKER: Then we adjust it later.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.40,0:00:15.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,BRADFORD: Yeah, and if it’s a \Nproblem, all your fault. (LAUGHS)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.86,0:00:18.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Never on me. (LAUGHS)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.25,0:00:21.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,SPEAKER: How do you do this \Nbecause these were advertisements?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.84,0:00:24.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,BRADFORD: Yeah, on the fences.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.71,0:00:31.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,BRADFORD: I only take the advertisements \Nthat have to do businesses.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.36,0:00:37.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After the riot, so many buildings were burnt \Ndown that they put this fencing around it
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.40,0:00:40.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so everybody starts to use \Nthe fencing for these signs.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.52,0:00:45.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you see the same things \Nall the time in the ghetto.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.99,0:00:50.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Cash. For your houses. It’s \Nlike cash, we buy your houses.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.28,0:00:51.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I like this one.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.68,0:00:53.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Immigration papers in 30 days.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.84,0:00:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How is this possible?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.28,0:00:59.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Locks for hair. Black people and hair.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.52,0:01:04.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I take twine, you know, string, \Nglue, all down around it
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.96,0:01:08.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then I take the billboard paper \Nand I turn it on the back side,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.60,0:01:10.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not the good side, but the back side.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.40,0:01:15.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I lay it on and let it dry and \Nit like...and then I sand it.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.84,0:01:20.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And some, I don’t, you \Ncan’t...the language is all gone,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.64,0:01:23.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a little bit gone, sometimes it works better.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.92,0:01:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just...yeah, it’s just information in the city.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.00,0:01:29.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see it all the time.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.12,0:01:35.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Found some...oh that’s nice.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.62,0:01:37.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Uh-huh. A head.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.29,0:01:39.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Put that over there.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.88,0:01:43.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My practice is both collage \Nand décollage at the same time.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.32,0:01:45.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How would that look?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.32,0:01:52.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Décollage. I take it away, and then \Ncollage I immediately add it right back.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.52,0:01:57.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes you have to not put stuff on top.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.72,0:02:01.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You got to retrieve something \Nthat’s under the bottom.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.60,0:02:15.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Good. Where’s that S? I saved \Nit. Make sure the color is right.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.04,0:02:22.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The line of my making or my art \Npractice goes back to my childhood,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.24,0:02:26.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it’s not an art background, \Nit’s a making background.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.24,0:02:33.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Me making the sign of the prices \Nin my mother’s hair salon,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.04,0:02:35.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was in charge of that so I would do calligraphy.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.04,0:02:36.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I learned how to...teach…
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.32,0:02:38.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I taught myself calligraphy \Nso I could make them very…
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.40,0:02:41.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,very fancy on the wall.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.28,0:02:45.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the hand...the hand was very early in my work.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.88,0:02:49.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Signage, texts, but not perfect.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.48,0:02:55.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It always got a little slimmer at the end \Nbecause I wouldn’t measure it properly.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.16,0:02:57.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it worked out. She always \Nsaid oh next time, it’s okay.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.20,0:02:59.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I raise the prices \Nyou’ll have another chance.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.24,0:03:03.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah, the make...I’ve always been a maker.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.40,0:03:10.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In DADDY, DADDY, DADDY I was \Nusing materials that had memory.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.57,0:03:17.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Memory from working in the hair salon, \Nand I was using a lot of end papers.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.64,0:03:22.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,End papers are used when \Nyou are doing a permanent.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.00,0:03:29.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was also thinking a lot about music at the time.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.64,0:03:34.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Music fragments, so DADDY, DADDY, \NDADDY kind of came out of that.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.00,0:03:42.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,BLACK VENUS was one of the map-like paintings.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.72,0:03:46.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was really thinking of mapmaking \Nand also the history of abstraction
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.44,0:03:50.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because in some ways I look at maps \Nas sort of these abstract grids. \N
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.09,0:03:58.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Baldwin Hills is where the sort of black, \Nwealthy people of Los Angeles live.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.20,0:04:03.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I went driving around and came to an address,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.72,0:04:06.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I made up an imaginary \Nstory about who lived there.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.00,0:04:10.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I actually Googled and Google Mapped this address.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:11.40,0:04:15.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then it just became more and \Nmore pushed into my imagination.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:20.40,0:04:24.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I love soccer, and I decided \Nthat I wanted to craft
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.28,0:04:27.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my own sort of imaginary league of players.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:28.68,0:04:30.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,GAME RECOGNIZES GAME,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.60,0:04:34.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was the largest piece \Nactually to date that I had made,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.08,0:04:37.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I love the fragile, heroicness of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:38.32,0:04:40.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it was all constructed of paper.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.76,0:04:46.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was the first time that I put a \Npainting and a sculpture in proximity,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:46.76,0:04:49.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I was trying to sort \Nof activate a third thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.80,0:05:00.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,LOS MOSCOS was really me directly wanting \Nto deal with issues of abstraction,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.64,0:05:05.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,modernism, abstract expressionism,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.61,0:05:08.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it really kind of exploded for me.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.08,0:05:14.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People say that they’re collages, I \Njust think that they’re paintings,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:14.08,0:05:16.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know it’s on canvas, it’s a painting.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:22.32,0:05:26.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At CalArts, what I did \Ndiscover was bodies of ideas.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:27.40,0:05:29.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I never knew what a postmodern condition was,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:29.64,0:05:30.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I never heard of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:30.32,0:05:34.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I never knew about Foucault \Nand bell hooks and Cornel West.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:35.36,0:05:39.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I never read those type of writings,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:39.28,0:05:43.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I lived with people who \Nwere living those type of lives
Dialogue: 0,0:05:43.28,0:05:45.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I remember coming home and telling my mother,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:45.20,0:05:46.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,oh you know you’re postmodern.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:46.64,0:05:47.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She said oh, that’s sweet.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.24,0:05:53.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I...so I felt like I discovered friends \Nin these books, these writers, I felt…
Dialogue: 0,0:05:53.88,0:05:55.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I discovered these revolutionary people
Dialogue: 0,0:05:55.68,0:05:57.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that were doing these really revolutionary things,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:57.76,0:05:59.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so it was the writings that got me
Dialogue: 0,0:05:59.28,0:06:03.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,really, really, really, really enthusiastic.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:12.32,0:06:18.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wanted to create the feeling of being \Noutdoors and indoors at the same time.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:21.37,0:06:27.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As you walk in, one side is \Njust covered with information.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:27.12,0:06:31.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On the opposite you have the \Nreflection of these merchant posters
Dialogue: 0,0:06:31.92,0:06:34.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the sort of mirror corridor.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:35.00,0:06:37.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have this sort of funhouse effect.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:40.59,0:06:45.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This type of advertising which \Nmainly you see on cyclone fencing,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:45.12,0:06:46.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has a relationship to the body.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.60,0:06:52.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s about the conditions that are going on at
Dialogue: 0,0:06:52.84,0:06:56.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that particular moment at \Nthat particular location.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:01.76,0:07:06.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have “100% Roaches Gone” next \Nto “Are you a licensed barber?”
Dialogue: 0,0:07:06.80,0:07:09.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but if you put “My child says daddy” right next to
Dialogue: 0,0:07:09.24,0:07:13.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“How to open a sober living \Nfacility” and “Lifetime Indian hair”
Dialogue: 0,0:07:13.10,0:07:15.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it’s really a story that starts to unfold.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:19.08,0:07:21.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As you move down this corridor,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:21.61,0:07:26.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you come into a smaller room and you hear music.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:26.51,0:07:28.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(MUSIC)
Dialogue: 0,0:07:28.68,0:07:31.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You hear people celebrating.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:33.88,0:07:37.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are two videos on opposite walls.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:40.52,0:07:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One video is of the Martin Luther \NKing Day Parade in Los Angeles.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:48.00,0:07:52.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you see people who are \Nremembering this political figure.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:56.64,0:07:59.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The other is of a marketplace in Egypt.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:02.44,0:08:07.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This actual night market is only for Muslims.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:12.20,0:08:16.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They’re on opposing walls but \Nthey are facing each other.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:20.00,0:08:21.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I go to the parade every year.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:22.90,0:08:27.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Certain details, you start to see \Nover and over and over and over again.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:28.44,0:08:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Such as the policing.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:30.92,0:08:34.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There’s as much policing \Nof the parade as a parade.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:34.80,0:08:38.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every frame and it’s not that \NI tried to put police in it,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:38.12,0:08:39.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they were just in every frame.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:42.88,0:08:49.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To see so many black bodies in \Npublic space, it’s always political.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:50.24,0:08:53.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Always a political condition.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:07.40,0:09:10.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On the Cairo side, there was no police,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:11.48,0:09:13.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there was no policing,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:13.88,0:09:17.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these were just families enjoying themselves.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:18.68,0:09:25.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the Muslim body has become so politically \Ncharged that the space therefore is charged.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:31.52,0:09:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They’re both politicized sites.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:39.29,0:09:43.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But at the same time they’re \Nabout celebration as well.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:02.68,0:10:07.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I noticed that my art practice \Nis very detail, labor intensive
Dialogue: 0,0:10:07.80,0:10:12.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I think that that’s a way of slowing \Nmyself down so that I can hear myself think,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:12.40,0:10:14.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that I can hear the voices \Na little bit more quiet,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:14.88,0:10:22.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I can hear maybe the decision that might \Ncome through that’s a little less large.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:23.60,0:10:31.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That quieter voice has sometimes the more \Ninteresting idea, if I can get to it.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:32.77,0:10:34.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I still don’t know how this is going to hang.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:34.36,0:10:35.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I still don’t even know…
Dialogue: 0,0:10:35.40,0:10:37.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to me, I like it with the tacks in it,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:37.68,0:10:40.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but well, maybe bright colored tacks.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:41.16,0:10:42.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I’m not sure how it’s going to hang.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:43.20,0:10:46.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just thought to put it in \Na box, send it down there,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:46.36,0:10:47.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,stack it up, and put it in a box.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:58.92,0:11:00.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Making this piece for Brazil.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:01.56,0:11:02.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And now it’s Brazil.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:03.32,0:11:06.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean you’re making a \Npiece in your studio in L.A.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:06.48,0:11:08.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you’re thinking about Brazil, you know?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:08.40,0:11:09.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You never been to Brazil.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:09.42,0:11:10.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,BRADFORD: That’s it?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:10.14,0:11:10.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,SPEAKER: Yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:10.76,0:11:12.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,BRADFORD: Well, I think \Nit...I think it kind of works.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:13.00,0:11:16.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ta da! (LAUGHS)
Dialogue: 0,0:11:37.08,0:11:42.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,PRACTICE was a video that \NI did a couple years ago,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:42.94,0:11:45.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I wanted to do a video \Nof me playing basketball.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:46.30,0:11:49.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I wanted to create a condition, a struggle.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:50.16,0:11:54.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would create this huge antebellum \Nhoop skirt out of a Lakers uniform.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:55.64,0:11:59.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My goal was to focus on dribbling \Nthe basketball and making the shot,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:59.92,0:12:03.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but obviously when you have an \Nantebellum skirt fanning out
Dialogue: 0,0:12:03.32,0:12:06.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about four feet around you, \Nthat's going to be difficult.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:12.00,0:12:15.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it was an incredibly windy day, one of those
Dialogue: 0,0:12:15.44,0:12:18.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Santa Anna, southern California, windy days
Dialogue: 0,0:12:18.92,0:12:20.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where everything was blowing.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:22.100,0:12:26.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What it created was this billowing of the wind.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:26.36,0:12:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It would catch underneath the dress.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:32.28,0:12:33.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It became almost like I was floating.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:35.76,0:12:37.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I would fall and get up.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:37.44,0:12:41.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would make the shot sometimes and \NI wouldn’t and I would always get up.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:43.48,0:12:47.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was about roadblocks on every level,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:47.92,0:12:55.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cultural, gender, racial, \Nregardless that they’re there.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:57.80,0:13:00.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is important to continue.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:01.52,0:13:03.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You keep going.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:03.80,0:13:06.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You keep going and so that’s what it was.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:06.20,0:13:07.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I made the hoop.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:07.28,0:13:08.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I made the shot.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:08.44,0:13:09.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I always make the shot.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:10.28,0:13:12.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes it takes me a \Nlittle longer to get there.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:13.08,0:13:15.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I always make the shot.