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Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text
Dialogue: 0,0:00:01.37,0:00:06.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(ambient electronic music)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.36,0:00:11.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Train rattling)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.81,0:00:13.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(group chattering)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.62,0:00:19.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,TANIA BRUGUERA: The strategy of the Immigrant\NMovement project
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.47,0:00:22.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is to open the door to things you already\Nknow.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.25,0:00:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So by you coming into something you already\Nknow,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.00,0:00:30.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you feel that you understand what's going on
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.03,0:00:33.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then, after, walk you\Ntowards other places you don't know.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.51,0:00:36.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(crowd chattering)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.34,0:00:45.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For me, the most important moment for an art\Npiece
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.52,0:00:49.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is when people are not sure if it's art or\Nnot,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.82,0:00:52.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this is the most, for me, productive moment.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.18,0:01:00.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(lively traditional music)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.87,0:01:15.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am an artist, and I need to defend that\Nbecause I'm going beyond art,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.29,0:01:19.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I'm trying to do things\Nthat are not being seen as art.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.67,0:01:25.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As a political artist,\NI always want my work to have real consequences.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.54,0:01:31.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The major goal of Immigrant Movement at the\Nbeginning
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.44,0:01:35.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was to rethink the political representation\Nof immigrants.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.45,0:01:37.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.03,0:01:40.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because once you become an immigrant,\Nthe first thing that is taken from you
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.16,0:01:45.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the opportunity to talk about politics\Nand to talk about yourself as a political
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.41,0:01:46.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,being.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.24,0:01:53.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(plucky string music)
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.71,0:02:10.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I feel that I needed to do an immigrant movement\Nin the United States because
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.91,0:02:17.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when you say, "Where do you want to live?"\Nto anybody in the world, they say, "United States."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.11,0:02:22.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(lively traditional music)
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.18,0:02:28.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(singing in foreign language)
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.50,0:02:36.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The people in Immigrant Movement are using art
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.61,0:02:43.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to empower themselves and to change as people\Nand to change as human beings.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.69,0:02:52.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'd like to welcome you to this gathering
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.65,0:02:57.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the end of this cycle of Immigrant Movement.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.58,0:02:59.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are very happy with everything
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.70,0:03:01.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the teachers
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.47,0:03:03.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the people that come here
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.85,0:03:05.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who have made
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.90,0:03:08.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Immigrant Movement their home.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.34,0:03:11.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(train rattles)
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.27,0:03:17.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Immigrant Movement has been very different\Nfrom other projects.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.43,0:03:19.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(horse hooves clopping)
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.11,0:03:22.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For other pieces, I have opened different\Ndoors.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.00,0:03:30.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The whole idea of the series of Tatlin's Whisper\Ncame out of uncomfortable feeling I had with
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.74,0:03:32.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the news,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.07,0:03:39.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the fact that, as viewers of the news,\Nwe are in a way anesthetized by some of the
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.42,0:03:40.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,issues.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.50,0:03:43.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had other series, but the two pieces\Nthat survive
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.92,0:03:48.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are Tatlin's Whisper 5 and\NTatlin's Whisper 6,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.58,0:03:53.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in the first one, I wanted to bring the\Nmounted police
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.39,0:03:56.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and ask them to do their normal job,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.54,0:04:03.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but instead of doing it with protestors,\Ndoing it with people in the museum.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.59,0:04:04.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[OFFICER] Are these your children?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.99,0:04:05.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[VISITOR] Yes.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.49,0:04:07.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Could they stand with dad or with mom?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.85,0:04:09.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's it, so they're not too close.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.92,0:04:10.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's lovely.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.92,0:04:11.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well done.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:11.42,0:04:13.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Okay, the horse is now gonna walk forward.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.59,0:04:15.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Could you just stand aside, please?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.49,0:04:16.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's lovely.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:16.30,0:04:17.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you very much.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:17.79,0:04:18.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just wait there.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.79,0:04:22.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[TANIA] I always felt it was too easy\Nto look at the news of something happening
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.76,0:04:23.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,somewhere else
Dialogue: 0,0:04:23.87,0:04:27.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and just sit and change the channel.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.92,0:04:29.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I wanted people to understand,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.31,0:04:33.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when you have the police coming with a horse\Ntowards you
Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.42,0:04:37.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and telling you, "Go there, go there," how\Nthat feels.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.74,0:04:41.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(horse hooves clopping)
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.80,0:04:42.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I think it was very interesting
Dialogue: 0,0:04:42.97,0:04:47.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when you stage repression, knowing that what\Nyou're doing
Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.53,0:04:49.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,actually is protecting people.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:50.08,0:04:52.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The second one, Tatlin's Whisper #6,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.59,0:04:58.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is a piece where I use all the theatrics,\Nthe spectacle of a political event in Cuba,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:58.78,0:05:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is mainly the podium\Nand a very simple moment of the expectation
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.00,0:05:07.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of a speech.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.26,0:05:10.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And also, it was interesting that at that\Npoint,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:10.71,0:05:13.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fidel had disappeared from the news
Dialogue: 0,0:05:13.72,0:05:18.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but is somebody that we felt the emptiness\Nof the leadership.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:18.22,0:05:23.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even if the brother has came in,\Nhe had not done enough changes yet or enough
Dialogue: 0,0:05:23.13,0:05:24.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,presence.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:24.13,0:05:26.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the piece work in two way.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:26.26,0:05:30.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It can be a monument to the absence of a leader,\Nor if people intervene,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:30.77,0:05:37.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it can be actually a performance piece\Nwhere they exercise their right to say things.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:38.04,0:05:44.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have the podium, the microphones,\Nand you have two people dressed with military
Dialogue: 0,0:05:44.95,0:05:46.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,outfits.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:46.33,0:05:51.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Once everybody was there, we gave\N200 disposable cameras,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:51.27,0:05:56.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we announced that anybody can say\Nwhatever they wanted for one minute.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:57.25,0:05:59.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[VISITOR 1] Millions of children are starving.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:59.63,0:06:00.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,None of them are Cuban.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:00.70,0:06:05.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[VISITOR 2] Why do we need a podium to say\Nwhat eats up our soul?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:05.37,0:06:06.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[VISITOR 3] I am 20 years old.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:06.81,0:06:09.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the first time I feel so free.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:10.16,0:06:15.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(VISITOR 4 Screaming)
Dialogue: 0,0:06:15.26,0:06:17.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After one minute passed, whatever was happening,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:17.47,0:06:19.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they removed the person.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:19.16,0:06:20.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[VISITOR 5] What
Dialogue: 0,0:06:20.93,0:06:22.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is more
Dialogue: 0,0:06:22.51,0:06:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,important.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:24.09,0:06:24.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to talk
Dialogue: 0,0:06:24.80,0:06:31.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[TANIA] That piece I like a lot, in part because,\Nfor the first time, I was able to freeze power.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:31.14,0:06:33.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was really satisfying to not having\Nanybody after
Dialogue: 0,0:06:33.84,0:06:38.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,being incarcerated, or there is always some\Nrepercussion.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:38.59,0:06:45.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They talk to me, whatever, but I feel like\Nit was well done
Dialogue: 0,0:06:45.18,0:06:48.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the sense of very controlled.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:49.69,0:06:52.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My childhood was a little different from other\NCuban kids
Dialogue: 0,0:06:52.79,0:06:56.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because my father was a diplomat,\Nso I was traveling around the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:56.98,0:07:00.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when in Cuba, I was not permitted to travel.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:04.38,0:07:09.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because my parents represented the country,\NI was witnessing all this propaganda.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:12.14,0:07:13.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when I was 12, everything changed
Dialogue: 0,0:07:13.79,0:07:19.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because my parent divorced\Nand I started living the reality of Cuba.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:19.79,0:07:26.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think once I had a normal life\Nin the Cuban reality,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:26.70,0:07:32.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I started seeing the distance\Nbetween the promises and the accomplishment.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:32.84,0:07:37.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I still believe in a dream.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:37.02,0:07:41.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as an artist, I feel that everything\Nthat I have been trying to do
Dialogue: 0,0:07:41.61,0:07:47.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is trying to kind of force\Nor redirect reality towards the dream,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:47.29,0:07:50.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but with the knowledge that propaganda
Dialogue: 0,0:07:50.41,0:07:54.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is different than reality, and trying to,\Nin a way,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:54.82,0:07:58.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,push people to be realistic about the goal
Dialogue: 0,0:07:58.04,0:08:02.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and about the political means\Ninstead of presenting us with just a dream.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:03.80,0:08:05.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am committed to be a Cuban.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:05.25,0:08:08.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am committed be in Cuba and to work in Cuba.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:08.60,0:08:11.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I do work about Cuba, I do it in Cuba,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:11.45,0:08:15.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because this is whom I want to talk to about\Nthose issues.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:15.95,0:08:17.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Displacement.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:20.24,0:08:25.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was a piece that was done\Noriginally the day of Fidel's birthday.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:31.86,0:08:37.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I decided to do this piece where I dress as\Na Nkisi Nkondi,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:37.07,0:08:39.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is a figure from Congo.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:42.00,0:08:47.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People can ask for something, and each nail\Nis one wish,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:47.80,0:08:50.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but you have to give something back.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:51.60,0:08:55.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like, okay, if you if you give me this,\NI will do this for you.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:55.98,0:08:59.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I will bring flowers or cut my hair or whatever.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:04.10,0:09:06.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you don't give back the promise to the\NNkisi,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:06.84,0:09:10.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it will go after you and punish you severely,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:10.63,0:09:12.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that's why people are afraid of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:12.52,0:09:19.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So what happened is I dress like that,\Nand I was in as in a sculpture in the gallery,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:19.46,0:09:22.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then I "woke up" and went to the streets.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:24.56,0:09:27.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it was beautiful because it was the first\Ntime
Dialogue: 0,0:09:27.83,0:09:30.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I went out to the street as a performer,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:30.88,0:09:33.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I was a little nervous because I was thinking,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:33.64,0:09:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"People might be, 'What the hell is this?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:36.00,0:09:38.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not carnival time.'"
Dialogue: 0,0:09:38.94,0:09:43.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The piece was about all the things\Nthat were promised during the revolution
Dialogue: 0,0:09:43.16,0:09:47.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that were not being fulfilled\Nand that we're still waiting for them.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:48.64,0:09:52.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At one point, a policeman came and said,\N"What's going on?"
Dialogue: 0,0:09:52.52,0:09:56.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because we're not supposed to do that\Nin the street that day, wherever for that
Dialogue: 0,0:09:56.71,0:09:57.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,matter.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:57.96,0:10:01.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then a kid was saying,\N"No, it is a art work,"
Dialogue: 0,0:10:01.54,0:10:03.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because he was hearing something people talking.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:03.83,0:10:06.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There were people from the arts as well.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:06.30,0:10:10.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the policeman was quiet, and I couldn't\Nsee it,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:10.58,0:10:11.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I could hear he was...
Dialogue: 0,0:10:12.16,0:10:14.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was quiet, then he said, "Oh, okay, okay.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:14.54,0:10:15.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Proceed.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:15.04,0:10:15.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Proceed."
Dialogue: 0,0:10:15.82,0:10:21.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that was the exact moment when I realized\Nthat art can go places other people cannot
Dialogue: 0,0:10:21.19,0:10:22.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,go.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:22.19,0:10:27.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(train rattling)
Dialogue: 0,0:10:27.80,0:10:30.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We also have the meeting
Dialogue: 0,0:10:30.61,0:10:34.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the selection of the Useful Art Committee\Nthat...
Dialogue: 0,0:10:34.02,0:10:34.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Something like this?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:34.90,0:10:36.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes, it's better.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:36.73,0:10:39.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would like us both to present it so that\Nyou could
Dialogue: 0,0:10:39.80,0:10:42.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,introduce me again and we can talk about...
Dialogue: 0,0:10:42.53,0:10:44.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I will introduce you, and you explain it.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:44.14,0:10:45.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:45.06,0:10:46.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Perfect.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:46.24,0:10:47.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what will you be explaining?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:47.63,0:10:50.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just inviting them to the Useful Art Committee\Nand...
Dialogue: 0,0:10:50.29,0:10:54.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's tell them that we will be having artists-in-residence
Dialogue: 0,0:10:54.46,0:10:56.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who are also immigrants.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:56.03,0:10:56.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Exactly.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:56.84,0:10:58.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that it's all pertinent
Dialogue: 0,0:10:58.48,0:11:00.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that it's all about Useful Art.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:00.59,0:11:02.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the idea is that we will be having a meeting.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:02.96,0:11:05.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We'll be serving coffee and little cupcakes.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:05.03,0:11:06.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It will be very delicious.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:06.33,0:11:07.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Buying the public's vote, I see?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:07.89,0:11:09.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No, the idea is that it will be delicious!
Dialogue: 0,0:11:09.58,0:11:11.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It doesn't have to be all business!
Dialogue: 0,0:11:11.88,0:11:14.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's like fun business, Tania!
Dialogue: 0,0:11:14.30,0:11:14.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:14.82,0:11:15.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have to learn that part.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:15.94,0:11:18.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(relaxed music)
Dialogue: 0,0:11:18.33,0:11:20.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,INSTRUCTOR: And remember you have\Nthose little wood chips, Brandon,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:20.61,0:11:22.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so you\Nhave to put a lot of pressure.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:25.57,0:11:30.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I see the role of the artist\Nas somebody that can propose things,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:30.47,0:11:34.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whether that be creating an environment\Nfor something to happen,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:34.84,0:11:39.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or will that be giving the tools\Nto people to do certain activities on their
Dialogue: 0,0:11:39.14,0:11:40.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,own?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:40.33,0:11:42.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's the role I think we have now,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:43.18,0:11:48.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,showing people this is what we can do, these\Nare the tools.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:48.40,0:11:49.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Take it.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:50.28,0:11:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Van Abbe Museum invited me to do a solo\Nshow.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:55.42,0:11:59.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And after thinking, I realized that it was\Nthe best place
Dialogue: 0,0:11:59.21,0:12:04.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to bring Arte Útil to a museum and use the\Nopportunity
Dialogue: 0,0:12:04.52,0:12:07.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be in a museum to do multiple things.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:07.58,0:12:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is the use of a museum in the 21st century?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:12.00,0:12:16.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And challenge also the idea of a spectatorship.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:16.33,0:12:20.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How can you eliminate a spectator from a museum?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:20.20,0:12:22.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All of these ideas came together,\Nand then I decided to create
Dialogue: 0,0:12:22.87,0:12:24.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what I call the Museum of Arte Útil.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:25.49,0:12:27.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have so much to cover.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:27.02,0:12:32.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was, like, impossible, so we decided to\Ncreate a focus
Dialogue: 0,0:12:32.44,0:12:35.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the idea of the archive.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:35.22,0:12:39.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[ANNIE] When Tania came up with this idea\Nof making a Museum of Arte Útil
Dialogue: 0,0:12:39.30,0:12:42.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it immediately brought up the question, what\Ndo museums do?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:42.04,0:12:43.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do they make history?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:43.10,0:12:44.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do they brand a movement?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:44.34,0:12:48.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are they the authoritative voice that says,\N"This is minimalism, this is performance art,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:48.64,0:12:50.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is Arte Útil"?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:50.26,0:12:51.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we thought, "Okay, how would we do that?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:51.98,0:12:54.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How would we gather together this archive?"
Dialogue: 0,0:12:56.47,0:13:01.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The fact that we call it Arte Útil,\Nthe intention was to be in Spanish.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:01.39,0:13:07.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The word "útil" in Spanish has two connotations,\Nwhereas in English it's only one.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:07.19,0:13:11.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The two connotations are\Nthe benefit you can get out of something,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:11.30,0:13:13.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,something that can be useful to you.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:13.75,0:13:16.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Útil" is also a tool.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:16.40,0:13:20.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Un útil de trabajo" is a tool, a working tool.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:21.44,0:13:27.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[ANNIE] You saw that facade outside,\Nand this wall cuts through all of the spaces.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:27.87,0:13:32.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It seemed necessary to us\Nto break with the pattern of the white cube.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:32.32,0:13:36.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's totally a theatrical device,\Ncontradiction number one in the show,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:36.25,0:13:42.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because we kind of really tried to avoid metaphor,\Nsymbols in our selection of works.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:42.75,0:13:45.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We tried to think about a practice of art\Nhistory
Dialogue: 0,0:13:45.84,0:13:47.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is not about the metaphor.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:47.75,0:13:55.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's rather about generating a kind of engagement\Nthat needs a user and an initiator.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:55.55,0:13:57.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To do this project was a team effort.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:57.90,0:14:00.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wanted the project to grow naturally.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:00.21,0:14:02.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't want to come and impose an idea.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:02.93,0:14:06.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For me, it was very important\Nfrom the beginning, as an artist,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:06.13,0:14:09.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I should not be the author of the project\Nbut the initiator,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:09.88,0:14:14.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is one of the categories we use about\NArte Útil.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:16.49,0:14:21.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[ANNIE] We had Laurie Jo Reynolds on a residency here with her cat, contained in the tents
Dialogue: 0,0:14:21.28,0:14:22.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,most of the time.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:22.100,0:14:26.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But she is an extraordinary artist\Nwho campaigned for 10 years
Dialogue: 0,0:14:26.87,0:14:30.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to close down a high security supermax prison\Nin the states.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:30.14,0:14:33.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Her work has been archived\Nover the last six weeks here in the museum.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:33.41,0:14:35.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She just left yesterday.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:37.75,0:14:40.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The biggest project here is the Honest Shop.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:40.61,0:14:43.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This shop works in a really successful way\Nin Britain.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:43.46,0:14:47.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The shop has nobody running it except for\Nthe participants.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:47.90,0:14:51.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anybody who wants to contribute to the shop,\Nthere's a series of rules.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:51.18,0:14:53.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They have to be amateur, creative people,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:53.61,0:14:56.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so they can't be professional artists\Nor professional designers,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:56.58,0:15:01.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,things that you feel that are kind of creative\Nand that you do as an amateur hobby
Dialogue: 0,0:15:01.23,0:15:03.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you would like to sell.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:03.02,0:15:06.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♪ Green hills I like the firestone ♪
Dialogue: 0,0:15:06.94,0:15:09.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♪ I like to walk alone ♪
Dialogue: 0,0:15:09.08,0:15:14.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♪ do waka do waka do waka do waka ♪
Dialogue: 0,0:15:14.22,0:15:17.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♪ I like the flowers ♪
Dialogue: 0,0:15:17.02,0:15:19.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♪ I like the daffodils ♪
Dialogue: 0,0:15:19.53,0:15:22.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♪ I like the mountains ♪
Dialogue: 0,0:15:22.42,0:15:24.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♪ I like the green hills ♪
Dialogue: 0,0:15:24.78,0:15:27.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♪ I like the firestone ♪
Dialogue: 0,0:15:27.56,0:15:30.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♪ I like to walk alone ♪
Dialogue: 0,0:15:30.20,0:15:34.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(train rattling)
Dialogue: 0,0:15:38.20,0:15:40.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[TANIA] I'm very happy that an immigrant movement\Nhas happened
Dialogue: 0,0:15:40.63,0:15:43.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and is working very nicely.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:43.68,0:15:46.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think the culture of the place have been\Nestablished.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:46.73,0:15:50.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The principals of the project have been established.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:51.21,0:15:56.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[INSTRUCTOR] When we do this excercise\Nour circulatory system gets activated
Dialogue: 0,0:15:56.83,0:16:04.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we activate the entire body.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:04.69,0:16:11.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[TANIA] Once we gave the project to the community,\Nthe project doesn't need me, which I'm very
Dialogue: 0,0:16:11.32,0:16:12.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,happy with,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:12.20,0:16:19.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I think part of the homework\Nthat socially engaged art have to do
Dialogue: 0,0:16:19.50,0:16:24.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is try to rethink the way in which the project\Nsurvive
Dialogue: 0,0:16:24.09,0:16:26.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,beyond the artist's presence.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:26.60,0:16:31.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[INSTRUCTOR] Now we raise our arms, palms\Nup.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:31.89,0:16:35.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This exercise helps us re-energize ourselves.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:36.22,0:16:41.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This excercise at the same time
Dialogue: 0,0:16:41.86,0:16:44.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,stretches the organs.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:46.18,0:16:47.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The liver
Dialogue: 0,0:16:48.29,0:16:49.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the stomach
Dialogue: 0,0:16:51.20,0:16:52.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the intestines
Dialogue: 0,0:16:53.88,0:16:57.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are all doing their own Zumba right now.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:00.94,0:17:05.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[TANIA] I don't see socially engaged art\Nbeing preserved by three photos and a video
Dialogue: 0,0:17:05.15,0:17:06.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a museum.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:06.40,0:17:11.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I see real good, socially engaged art and\Npolitical art
Dialogue: 0,0:17:12.37,0:17:16.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,live beyond the life that the artist has given\Nit
Dialogue: 0,0:17:16.08,0:17:20.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by being taken by other people\Nwho are reproducing the models,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:20.60,0:17:24.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,changing those models, being inspired by that.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:24.48,0:17:30.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(lively music)\N(singing in foreign language)
Dialogue: 0,0:17:40.28,0:17:43.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[TANIA] The art that we should be doing today in the
Dialogue: 0,0:17:43.10,0:17:46.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,21st century is art that is not for the museum.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:46.48,0:17:50.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's art for the street and people's life.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:50.19,0:17:52.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(lively music)
Dialogue: 0,0:17:52.46,0:17:55.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(ambient electronic music)
Dialogue: 0,0:17:57.03,0:17:59.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To learn more about "Art in the Twenty-First\NCentury"
Dialogue: 0,0:17:59.55,0:18:01.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's educational resources,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:01.24,0:18:05.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,please visit us online at PBS.org/Art21
Dialogue: 0,0:18:06.43,0:18:09.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Art in the Twenty-First Century" is available\Non DVD
Dialogue: 0,0:18:09.79,0:18:15.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To order, visit shopPBS.org or call 1-800-PLAY-PBS
Dialogue: 0,0:18:15.26,0:18:20.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(ambient electronic music)