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Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.04,0:00:08.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Abraham Cruzvillegas: Autoconstrucción]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.87,0:00:12.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can see, we have all this rebar coming out
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.06,0:00:14.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the roofs of autoconstrucción houses
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.64,0:00:18.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as people think they can keep building--
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.74,0:00:23.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,making new room for new members of the family\Nand so on...
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.78,0:00:29.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is my father, with his cane--
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.60,0:00:30.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,his walking stick.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.08,0:00:31.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My mother,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.80,0:00:33.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my sister Eréndira,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.64,0:00:34.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Chucho, my brother.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.50,0:00:40.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My parents decided to expand and to construct more
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.10,0:00:42.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because we grew up.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.26,0:00:44.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We became teenagers
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.74,0:00:46.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we needed independent rooms.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.51,0:00:49.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We started building down...
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.37,0:00:53.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the back there, rooms for Rosa and for\Nmy brothers and me.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.27,0:00:55.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And a new kitchen.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.52,0:00:56.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it was very slow.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.58,0:01:06.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Autoconstrucción is more about self-constructing
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.35,0:01:07.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or constructing your own house.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.46,0:01:12.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I like the term because, for me,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.08,0:01:16.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it leads me to think on the construction of identity.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.80,0:01:23.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is where my father used to brush his teeth.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.22,0:01:28.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So he had here a small tub with water and he...
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.44,0:01:29.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to wash...
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.71,0:01:32.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and spit here on the tree,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.06,0:01:33.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,covering, in white, the bricks,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.95,0:01:35.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as you can see there.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.40,0:01:37.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it was, kind of, a slow painting.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.36,0:01:45.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My father had an accident--
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.50,0:01:46.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a car accident.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.90,0:01:48.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then he wasn't able to walk anymore
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.59,0:01:50.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he was on a wheelchair.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.60,0:01:52.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then we built the ramps
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.75,0:01:53.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all around the house.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.06,0:01:56.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And here,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.26,0:01:58.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the stairs, you can see,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.47,0:02:01.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they change because it's for the wheelchair, here.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.26,0:02:03.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All the additions--
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.02,0:02:04.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,furniture and so on--
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.52,0:02:07.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we did many of these things ourselves.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.09,0:02:09.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's why they are so badly done.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.42,0:02:14.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are ridiculously made because they are\Nnot made by experts.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.18,0:02:17.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I never tried to illustrate this,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.26,0:02:21.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but to use it as a source of energy
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.49,0:02:22.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for my work.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.54,0:02:24.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN]
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.12,0:02:25.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--Yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.28,0:02:33.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--It's good.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.76,0:02:52.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many of my works are definitely unfinished voluntarily.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.92,0:02:55.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you look at the roofs of the houses
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.40,0:02:58.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there is this rebar coming out there
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.38,0:03:02.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like an optimistic hope of being finished,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.67,0:03:06.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that’s my reference, I would say.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.76,0:03:11.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't want to represent houses,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.80,0:03:13.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or parts of houses
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.74,0:03:16.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or illustrate autoconstrucción,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.92,0:03:21.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but to activate the dynamics of autoconstrucción\Nin my work.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.40,0:03:22.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like, improvising--
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.86,0:03:25.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,doing things with whatever you have at hand.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.14,0:03:31.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not thinking that much in an architectonic
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.02,0:03:33.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or tectonic way,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.35,0:03:37.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but more like answering to immediate needs
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.46,0:03:40.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like a playfulness, for instance.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.70,0:03:42.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--It's from the hotel!
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.52,0:03:48.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I think what I like, a lot of these constructions--
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.53,0:03:52.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these houses that all overlap together,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.69,0:03:54.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the houses and the people,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.18,0:03:56.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know, like the activities and the energy.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.04,0:03:59.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can see through them.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.94,0:04:01.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are transparent, let's say.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.28,0:04:07.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is my ideal of what an identity should be,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.52,0:04:08.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,transparent.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.70,0:04:13.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We go through a long, long path to become\Nourselves.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.06,0:04:23.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm still constructing myself.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.10,0:04:26.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just want to understand who I am
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.85,0:04:28.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and where I come from.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:28.06,0:04:29.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I come from Marcel Duchamp,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.48,0:04:32.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I come also from Colony Ajusco.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.12,0:04:35.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I come from Eduardo Costa.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.58,0:04:38.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I come from David Medalla.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:38.04,0:04:39.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I come from autoconstrucción.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.83,0:04:41.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I come from Mexico.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.70,0:04:46.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What can I say? [LAUGHS]