[Script Info]
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[Events]
Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text
Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.00,0:00:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Ann Hamilton: "the event of a thread"]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.00,0:00:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Sound of static and a woman's voice coming from a radio speaker]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.00,0:00:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Sound of static and a man's voice coming from a radio speaker]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.00,0:00:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My first hand is a sewing hand--is a weaving hand--
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.00,0:01:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that connection between text and textiles.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.00,0:01:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The title of the work is "the event of a thread"
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.00,0:01:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that comes from Anni Albers, whose description of weaving
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.00,0:01:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is a horizontal and vertical crossing of a thread,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.00,0:01:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is touch and contact at intersection.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.00,0:01:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The cloth is raising and lowering with the swings.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.00,0:01:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everyone's presence registers in some way in the materials of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.00,0:01:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that, in turn, makes its weaving.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.00,0:01:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[sound of audience echoing throughout the hall]
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.00,0:01:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Sound of static and a woman's voice coming from a radio speaker]
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.00,0:01:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[MAN] "Discordant pieces of science."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.00,0:02:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[MAN] "One man's injustice"
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.00,0:02:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[MAN, THROUGH RADIO SPEAKER] "is another's injustice."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.00,0:02:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[HAMILTON] At the beginning, we wondered if people would even swing.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.00,0:02:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're like, "I hope they don't just hang there."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.00,0:02:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's something that happens when you swing.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.00,0:02:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm sure there's a neurological explanation for the sense of pleasure that you feel,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.00,0:02:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I think people are giving over to that.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.00,0:02:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was a family in here yesterday that was here for three hours.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.00,0:02:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, it's sort of become like a park.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.00,0:02:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think one of the things that's here is it's very intimate,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.00,0:02:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and yet, it's kind of very large and anonymous--
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.00,0:02:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so this quality of solitude and being in a congregation or group of people.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.00,0:02:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think the feeling of that is actually very comforting,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.00,0:03:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and something that we need.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.00,0:03:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the middle, under the cloth,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.00,0:03:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I knew it would be a really wonderful place to stand--
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.00,0:03:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to have the turbulence and the liquidity of the cloth fall around you.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.00,0:03:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, I was totally unprepared for the fact that people would lay down on the floor
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.00,0:03:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and stay horizontal for a long long time.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.00,0:03:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I decided early on that I was going to stay for the duration of the show,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.00,0:03:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and every day is a little bit different,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.00,0:03:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and every day there's some other kind of interaction
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.00,0:03:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that it's almost...it holds the piece back up to me.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.00,0:04:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was a girl who said that she felt really really wild and safe at the same time.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.00,0:04:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I heard that...you know, it's like, "Yes! That is great."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:11.00,0:04:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's so many of those kinds of things,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.00,0:04:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so you're trying to give or make the opportunity for that kind of experience--
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.00,0:04:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but not determine what that is--
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.00,0:04:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that in turn, there's so much that's coming back
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.00,0:04:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from what people are giving into the work.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.00,0:04:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Being here and being present to feel that is tremendously satisfying.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.00,0:04:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[CHILDREN: "Whoa!"]