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Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Fred Wilson: Beauty & Ugliness]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Beauty...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Beauty, beauty, beauty...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm really interested in beauty.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Venice Biennale, 2003]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm interested in beauty
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you think of beauty as
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"an ultimate visual experience."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I'm also interested in beauty
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in that it can hide meaning.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The world is complex,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and often we try to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,separate out all of these experiences.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"This is beautiful." "This is ugly."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"This is a beautiful experience--that's all it is..."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"...there is no meaning."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Or, the meaning is not important."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People have to deal with the fact that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there is meaning in beauty--
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there is meaning in ugliness.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[The Studio Museum in Harlem, 2004]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so, in a lot of my work--if I can--
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I try to bring out that tension.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The whipping post and chairs is a perfect example
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because chairs are really beautiful;
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that whipping post is certainly not.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whipping post and chairs were from the first exhibition I did
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with museum collections.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was at the Maryland Historical Society in 1992.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a very traditional display in a certain way.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's no manipulation of the objects
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,other than their positioning.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that changes the meaning,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or the relationship,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or how you think about them.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is everything that I'm about
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I'm working with museums
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and quite often when I'm working in my studio.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Looking at high-end decorative arts in the chairs
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the whipping post,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they have a very different history,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it relates very directly in that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,those people who sat in the chairs
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had some relationship with
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,those who were on the whipping post.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not acknowledging that things are complex--
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that beauty is complex--
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think that that's the problem,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that people want to do that.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, I enjoy making it complex for people,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[LAUGHS]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because that's my world, you know.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[LAUGHS]