0:00:01.380,0:00:03.260 [MALE ANNOUNCER] This is CNN. 0:00:03.270,0:00:05.290 [Omer Fast: "CNN Concatenated"] 0:00:06.220,0:00:07.300 [WOMAN TAKES A BREATH] 0:00:07.310,0:00:10.490 I / just / feel / like / I / have / so / much[br]/ to / give / but 0:00:10.490,0:00:13.929 sometimes / you / can / be / so / full / of[br]/ resentment. 0:00:13.929,0:00:14.730 [MAN TAKES A BREATH] 0:00:14.730,0:00:15.910 Why / is / that? 0:00:15.910,0:00:17.350 [MAN TAKES A BREATH] 0:00:17.350,0:00:19.250 Perhaps / I / talk / too / much. 0:00:19.250,0:00:20.420 [WOMAN TAKES A BREATH] 0:00:20.420,0:00:23.050 Maybe / I / come / on / a / little / too / strong. 0:00:23.050,0:00:23.990 [WOMAN TAKES A BREATH] 0:00:23.990,0:00:26.439 Sometimes / even / I / over / react. 0:00:26.439,0:00:27.560 [WOMAN TAKES A BREATH] 0:00:27.560,0:00:28.039 Okay. 0:00:28.039,0:00:29.470 [WOMAN TAKES A BREATH] 0:00:29.470,0:00:33.790 [OMER FAST] So "CNN Concatenated" is an 18-minute-long monologue, in a sense, 0:00:33.790,0:00:38.559 that's composed from thousands of very small clips 0:00:38.559,0:00:41.010 recorded on the Cable News Network. 0:00:41.680,0:00:42.360 [WOMAN TAKES A BREATH] 0:00:42.370,0:00:44.870 If / we're / going / to be / in / this / relationship 0:00:44.870,0:00:46.149 for / some / time, 0:00:46.149,0:00:50.149 we / may / as / well / begin / working / on[br]/ this / together / now. 0:00:50.149,0:00:51.170 [WOMAN TAKES A BREATH] 0:00:51.170,0:00:54.629 It's / not / enough / to / turn / me / on[br]/ once / in / a / while. 0:00:54.629,0:00:55.570 [WOMAN TAKES A BREATH] 0:00:55.570,0:00:58.460 It's / not / enough / for / you / to / turn[br]/ to / me 0:00:58.460,0:01:00.500 every / time / you / need / something. 0:01:01.000,0:01:01.800 [MAN TAKES A BREATH] 0:01:01.800,0:01:05.880 [FAST] I started the piece earlier than 2001 0:01:05.880,0:01:08.619 and began collecting material not really knowing 0:01:08.619,0:01:10.139 what I was going to do with it, 0:01:11.500,0:01:15.100 and began to form very primitive sentences 0:01:15.100,0:01:17.390 with these little words that I was collecting. 0:01:17.390,0:01:19.890 ...statistics / and / their / partisan / priorities, 0:01:19.890,0:01:22.500 between / the / Middle / East / and / the[br]/ Far / West, 0:01:22.500,0:01:25.229 between / the / Mid / West / and / the / Far[br]/ East, 0:01:25.229,0:01:27.560 between / the / coasts / and / the / swing[br]/ states, 0:01:27.560,0:01:30.030 between / the / standards / of / reporting[br]/ and / the 0:01:30.030,0:01:32.310 measures / of / the / demographic / tastes 0:01:32.310,0:01:34.939 between / the / spy / plane / and / the / space[br]/ station, 0:01:34.939,0:01:39.159 civilians / on / submarines / and / billionaires[br]/ in / orbiting / vacations... 0:01:39.159,0:01:42.850 [FAST] And then I moved to Germany on September 1st, 2001, 0:01:42.850,0:01:46.600 and, while sitting in German classes learning a language-- 0:01:46.600,0:01:50.180 and writing downs words and reciting them-- 0:01:50.180,0:01:57.200 I heard about the attacks on the World Trade Center, 0:01:57.200,0:01:59.270 and realized that the piece, in a sense, 0:01:59.270,0:02:00.409 would have to change. 0:02:00.409,0:02:05.170 I kept ordering VHS cassettes from CNN 0:02:05.170,0:02:06.890 of the aftermath. 0:02:06.890,0:02:08.780 And through that footage, 0:02:08.780,0:02:13.200 the challenge was to articulate a voice-- 0:02:13.200,0:02:14.599 to try to locate a voice- 0:02:14.599,0:02:17.150 that sort of responds to all that, 0:02:17.150,0:02:19.709 or rather speaks through it at the same time. 0:02:20.900,0:02:21.640 [MAN TAKES A BREATH] 0:02:21.640,0:02:24.110 Where / do / our / respons- / -ibilities / begin? 0:02:25.040,0:02:25.560 [MAN TAKES A BREATH] 0:02:25.569,0:02:27.290 Where / do / our / needs / end? 0:02:28.160,0:02:28.760 [WOMAN TAKES A BREATH] 0:02:28.770,0:02:30.629 What / have / we / done / to / deserve / this? 0:02:30.629,0:02:32.090 [MAN TAKES SILENT PAUSE] 0:02:32.090,0:02:34.980 What / could / we / have / done / to / prevent[br]/ it / from / happening? 0:02:34.980,0:02:36.580 [WOMAN TAKES A BREATH] 0:02:36.580,0:02:37.550 What / can / we / learn? 0:02:37.550,0:02:38.910 [WOMAN TAKES A BREATH] 0:02:38.910,0:02:40.300 Where / do / we / go / from / here? 0:02:40.300,0:02:41.400 [WOMAN TAKES A BREATH] 0:02:41.400,0:02:42.360 What / do / we / know? 0:02:42.360,0:02:43.480 [MAN TAKES A BREATH] 0:02:43.480,0:02:44.410 How / have / we / changed? 0:02:44.410,0:02:45.550 [MAN TAKES A BREATH] 0:02:45.550,0:02:47.180 What / should / we / have / done / different[br]/ -ly? 0:02:47.180,0:02:47.980 [WOMAN TAKES A BREATH] 0:02:47.980,0:02:48.930 Who / can / we / trust? 0:02:48.930,0:02:50.780 [FAST] But if the work succeeds, 0:02:50.780,0:02:52.349 it's when you pass that point-- 0:02:52.349,0:02:54.900 you begin to almost close your eyes, 0:02:54.900,0:02:56.019 with all the clutter 0:02:56.019,0:02:58.420 and with all the noise that it makes 0:02:58.420,0:03:00.650 and begin to listen to that voice 0:03:00.650,0:03:03.290 that's speaking through the footage. 0:03:04.780,0:03:08.280 That voice, it's a pretty scared voice. 0:03:08.280,0:03:10.220 It's pretty urgent, 0:03:10.220,0:03:14.450 demanding, aggressive, scared voice. 0:03:14.450,0:03:16.340 I / don't / know / what / to / say. 0:03:16.340,0:03:18.159 [WOMAN TAKES SILENT PAUSE] 0:03:18.159,0:03:23.000 [FAST] That voice is, I suppose, in a way, 0:03:23.000,0:03:23.599 that kind of... 0:03:23.599,0:03:25.629 those sort of agents or their doppelganger 0:03:25.629,0:03:26.560 that are used for me. 0:03:28.060,0:03:28.560 [WOMAN TAKES A BREATH] 0:03:28.560,0:03:31.069 Every / time / I / try / to / speak / carefully, 0:03:31.069,0:03:33.799 I / fuck / up / and / make / a / big / mess[br]/ of / it / all. 0:03:33.799,0:03:36.559 [WOMAN TAKES SILENT PAUSE]