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If I'm presenting a proposal and my knowledge as a person from a third world country,

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It's not validated, as a knowledge of a first world person.

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I think it's a great experience.

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And I know what it is, exactly what it is to be discriminated, what it is to face stereotypes.

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I know these things, first hand.

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I think it is a privilege to come from Colombia,

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To come from a country that is at war, because it is like living in a condensed capsule of human experience,

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In six months here, I can experience what it would take me 20 years to experience in a first world country.

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For me, as identity, third world is enough. I don' want to get into Catholic, female, Colombian...

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Third World is enough.

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The political aspect of the work relates also to the process of making the work.

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We are all learning, we are in this same process. We are discovering things,

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We are discussing, we are arguing.

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It has to be a collective effort. I do real labor.

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Especially for me, coming from the third world, I cannot simply use somebody else's labor.

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That's not the way it is. That will destroy their sense of the piece,

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If I were working from that perspective.

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The role of the artist has been overrated. And I think it should be more humble.

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We basically connect elements that are already there, that are already present.

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In my case, events that already took place, stories that have not been told that already happened.

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And the work of my assistants, ideas that are in books.

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So I take all these and I simply connect all that.

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I think it's a humbler role.

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I am not a solo singer, and my studio, we are a chorus.