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Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.82,0:00:11.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Damián Ortega: Alias]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.14,0:00:16.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Mexico City]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.28,0:00:20.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I tried to organize my own career
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.35,0:00:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,working as a cartoonist\Nin the leftist newspaper.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.84,0:00:33.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I survived, doing these cartoons\Nfor many years.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.86,0:00:36.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was fun, but it was very demanding.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.24,0:00:47.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I started to mix art and comics.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.26,0:00:51.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I used an alias doing my cartoons
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.46,0:00:54.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I don't feel it's\Nthe same personality
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.14,0:00:56.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who did the cartoons and the artworks.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.44,0:01:02.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was completely divided in\Nmy own understanding of myself.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.66,0:01:08.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, it was a first approach\Nto my idea of the Alias books.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.76,0:01:14.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Alias Editorial is an ambitious project--
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.34,0:01:17.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a new experience--
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.30,0:01:19.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it's translated to another language.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.66,0:01:24.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's appropriation of knowledge\Nadapted to our own life,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.98,0:01:27.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our own context,\Nin Mexico City.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.84,0:01:32.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Gabriel Orozco gave me the original\NMarcel Duchamp interview,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.66,0:01:37.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he said, "You must read every page\Nof this book, because you will love it."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.87,0:01:39.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My English was worse than it is now--
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.91,0:01:43.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I tried to read,\Nbut I can't understand very well.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.11,0:01:48.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I asked a friend of mine if he can\Ntranslate a little bit to Spanish.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.06,0:01:51.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the end, I had the complete book translated,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.87,0:01:54.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with a lot of jokes in the translation.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.76,0:01:58.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's beautiful, because at the end\Nit's Duchamp completely out of context--
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.88,0:02:04.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it decontextualized him,\Nand becomes like a Mexican guy [LAUGHS]
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.55,0:02:07.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who lives in the Colonia Roma or something.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.88,0:02:13.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This, Cildo Meireles to Lawrence Weiner--
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.68,0:02:16.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,also to do this translation.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.53,0:02:17.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He liked very much the idea,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.88,0:02:19.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he proposed to do the cover.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.91,0:02:21.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That was really great.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.18,0:02:30.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My generation didn't have any of this information\Nabout contemporary art.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.92,0:02:34.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was a time when we don't have internet,\Nwe don't have cell phones.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.72,0:02:40.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We used to share information through photocopies,\Nthrough books.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.86,0:02:46.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of us can fly to Europe,\Nor to U.S. or South America,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.58,0:02:49.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and bring some books back\Nabout international artists.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.22,0:02:59.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Appropriation is a statement because\Nit gives the chance to recontextualize knowledge.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.80,0:03:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the end, every country gives some\Nspecial way of thinking.