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Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.85,0:00:22.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If I'm presenting a proposal and my knowledge as a person from a third world country,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.22,0:00:26.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not validated, as a knowledge of a first world person.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.09,0:00:29.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think it's a great experience.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.22,0:00:37.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I know what it is, exactly what it is to be discriminated, what it is to face stereotypes.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.61,0:00:42.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know these things, first hand.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.06,0:00:45.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think it is a privilege to come from Colombia,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.36,0:00:52.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To come from a country that is at war, because it is like living in a condensed capsule of human experience,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.05,0:01:02.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In six months here, I can experience what it would take me 20 years to experience in a first world country.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.30,0:01:10.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For me, as identity, third world is enough. I don' want to get into Catholic, female, Colombian...
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.12,0:01:14.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Third World is enough.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.41,0:01:21.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The political aspect of the work relates also to the process of making the work.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.77,0:01:27.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are all learning, we are in this same process. We are discovering things,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.09,0:01:30.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are discussing, we are arguing.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.72,0:01:34.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It has to be a collective effort. I do real labor.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.62,0:01:43.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Especially for me, coming from the third world, I cannot simply use somebody else's labor.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.42,0:01:48.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's not the way it is. That will destroy their sense of the piece,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.19,0:01:50.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If I were working from that perspective.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.02,0:01:58.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The role of the artist has been overrated. And I think it should be more humble.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.40,0:02:03.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We basically connect elements that are already there, that are already present.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.81,0:02:10.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In my case, events that already took place, stories that have not been told that already happened.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.37,0:02:14.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the work of my assistants, ideas that are in books.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.94,0:02:18.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I take all these and I simply connect all that.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.10,0:02:22.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think it's a humbler role.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.52,0:02:28.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am not a solo singer, and my studio, we are a chorus.