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Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,JANINE ANTONI: A rope is an umbilical\Ncord, you know.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's something that connects two things.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Which sort of is what Moor is about.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's about all these people being, \Nyou know, my life sort of connecting
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all these people. The idea was to take all\Nthese very different materials,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but also lives, and sort of bring them
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,together through the rope making process.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My mother's fall I put in there.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then my friend Pat made this piece\Nwith hammocks,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that's what this is.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Another friends' piece, Doug,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is his Hi8 tape that we took apart.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is sort of my favorite section;
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is the section of the grandmothers.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This red dress is my father's mother's \NChristmas dress...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wonder whether the viewer can in some\Nway
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,uncover these stories through their \Nexperience of the object,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whether these stories are somehow held\Nin the material.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Melissa: With a lot of the material what \Nwas done is they were cut up into strips
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or say if it was an electrical cord it was\Ntaken apart
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and all the wires inside were taken apart,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then twisted together with other \Nmaterials to create a rope.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Since I was a little girl, my mother and \NI would make things together,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,actually the whole family would make \Nthings together.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I love the handmade in any form \Nit takes.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's so many objects that we come into \Ncontact with
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we've lost a connection to what \Nthey're made of,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who made them.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that's really important for me to sort \Nof, in the object, on the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,surface of the object, somehow give \Nyou a history
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of how that object's made its way into the\Nworld.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To make this piece what I did is I dipped\Nmyself in a tub of lard.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The piece is called Eureka and it was \Ninspired by the story of Archimedes.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Archimedes was asked by the kind how \Nmuch gold was in his crown and he
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was killing himself how can he measure \Ncapacity?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well he's in the bathtub one night
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he realizes that his body is \Ndisplacing the water in the tub.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He gets very excited, jumps out and \Nscreams "Eureka."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It seems to me that Archimedes's body was \Nthe tool for the experiment,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just as my body is the tool for making.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But most importantly is this idea that he \Ncame to this knowledge through
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the experience of his body.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's why I do these kind of extreme \Nacts with my body.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I feel that the viewer has a body too and \Ncan empathize with what I've put
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,myself through to make the artwork.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To me so much meaning is in how we choose \Nto make something,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,both in art but in all objects that we \Ndeal with in our lives.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I kind of think of the work as like the \Nviewer is coming in on the scene of a
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,crime. And I've left all these clues for \Nthem to uncover.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I did this show and the exhibition space \Nwas connected to a dairy farm.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So right away I said can you give me \Na tour of the barns.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I noticed that troughs are made out \Nof tubs.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I thought what if I take a bath, will \Nthe cow continue to drink,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thinking that you know I've drunk from \Nthe cow my whole life
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I could sort of create this\Nrelationship.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well cows are very curious, they all came,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,started drinking, and it almost reversed \Nthe whole relationship.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She looks like she's nursing from me.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the title of the piece is 2038 which\Nis the tag in the ear,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the reason I chose that is I felt that\Nthat epitomized our relationship to the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cow, that it was almost like a hardly \Nan animal anymore,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but a biological machine and I wanted \Nthat to contrast the kind of tenderness of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the image. I was really thinking about um \Nthe Virgin Mary and these images
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we know of her.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like the Virgin Mary is not allowed to \Ndo anything physical.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No sex, she doesn't get to die.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The only thing she's allowed to do is \Nnurse.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I was thinking about how does that \Nimage affect my ideas of motherhood
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that sort of idyllic moment that we \Nknow from those paintings
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but also from Pampers ads of mother and \Nchild.