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Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.72,0:00:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Jacolby Satterwhite, Artist]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.00,0:00:13.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that's what I do when you guys aren't around.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.14,0:00:20.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think we're in the age of the remix.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.06,0:00:22.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There’s no such thing as originality anymore.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.86,0:00:26.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And now it’s just about how you use the\Ninformation around you
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.78,0:00:29.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to generate your individuality.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.98,0:00:36.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Social media, technology, the Internet, the\Nway that our bodies exist virtually--
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.06,0:00:42.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it’s a paradigm shift for the multiplicity\Nof the body.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.39,0:00:49.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My body is multiplied several times in my\Nvideos--
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.25,0:00:51.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not because I’m narcissistic,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.17,0:00:55.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it’s because I consider the videos to\Nbe similar to an essay.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.50,0:00:58.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I feel like my body is a form of punctuation.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.38,0:01:01.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They act as commas, exclamation points, question\Nmarks.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.60,0:01:07.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,["Jacolby Satterwhite Dances with His Self"]
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.07,0:01:11.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Virtual space for me is a queer arena for\Nmy body to perform in.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.05,0:01:14.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voguing is all about performing realness.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.87,0:01:20.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I feel like there is a perfect parallel between\Nmy practice and the ball scene.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.51,0:01:26.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I perform in the green screen,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.69,0:01:31.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's usually freestyle but based on the objects\Nthat I see.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.29,0:01:38.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voguing is all about performing objects around\Nyou that aren’t there.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.13,0:01:42.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The movement is so lyrical and it’s about\Ndrawing and accenting space.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.52,0:01:46.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dancing and movement is the closest thing\Nto drawing that I could figure out.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.06,0:01:54.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I was growing up, the way that I started\Ndrawing was me trying to assist my mother
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.39,0:01:57.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in becoming a rich woman on the Home Shopping\NNetwork.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.84,0:02:01.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[SUZANNE SOMERS] Well I say all the time,\Naging should be aspirational...
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.91,0:02:06.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[SATTERWHITE] My mother was watching Suzanne\NSomers telling Americans they can be an entrepreneur
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.16,0:02:08.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and make a million dollars.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.34,0:02:13.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so she started to make drawings of regular\Nutilitarian objects.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.45,0:02:17.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She was sending them off to companies, trying\Nto get them invented.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.89,0:02:19.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Find one my favorites in this batch.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.79,0:02:24.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She’s made way more drawings than this,\Nbut this is a couple thousand.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.19,0:02:26.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I started to realize that it wasn’t what\NI thought it was.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.90,0:02:36.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And she became more troubled and she started\Nto evolve into having a mental illness.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.25,0:02:42.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The drawings became more of a necessary meditation.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.33,0:02:43.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Keeping the chaos out of her head.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.81,0:02:48.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Keeping her mind contained and focused.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.74,0:02:56.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The Matriarch’s Rhapsody" is based on my\Nmother's drawings.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.64,0:03:01.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The blurring of the authorship is super important\Nfor me.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.51,0:03:06.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I work with her drawings because
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.93,0:03:09.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to make my work from a pure place that comes from necessity
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.84,0:03:16.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and comes from obsession and comes from the\Nessential, barebones, necessary place that
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.53,0:03:17.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,art should come from.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.45,0:03:20.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stuff that I grew up dealing with.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.60,0:03:23.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s like J.R. Tolkien or C.S. Lewis books.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.52,0:03:26.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Final Fantasy" one through ten, and all the\Nvideo games I played.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.52,0:03:30.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was always a strategy guide. A legend.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.29,0:03:34.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wanted to create my own codex of 250 of\Nmy mother’s drawings
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.93,0:03:39.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To contain that mythology that I am trying\Nto manifest through art.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.73,0:03:44.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I really want to make the most personal thing\Nin my life my work.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.87,0:03:47.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I was a kid, I got diagnosed with cancer
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.41,0:03:49.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I had to go through chemo for two years.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.77,0:03:52.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I lost my movement in my arm.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.41,0:03:54.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So my body got disrupted.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.14,0:04:01.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Reifying Desire 3," I picked medical drawings\Nthat fix or heal the body,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.66,0:04:05.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or enhance the performance of the body.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.02,0:04:09.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I gave myself two minutes to write a stream-of-conscious essay
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.93,0:04:14.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of how these drawings would blend with each\Nother narratively.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.79,0:04:19.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Kind of like "Exquisite Corpse" where you\Ntake different elements and you make into
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.30,0:04:22.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a uniform idea.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.05,0:04:24.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everyone has a system that they have to stay\Nfaithful to.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.59,0:04:26.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It reveals things in my unconscious.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.54,0:04:29.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It gives me a creative restraint to create\Na nonsensical storyline--
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.86,0:04:33.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this unlimited sci-fi surrealist paradise.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.00,0:04:43.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Another system is performing outdoors in public.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:05.42,0:05:08.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The body that I'm performing as doesn’t\Nunderstand limits.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.84,0:05:13.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s about me taking the avatar out of the\Nvideo and putting him in the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:16.62,0:05:21.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How do I take that mundane urban environment\Nand make it fantastical in my animation?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:21.72,0:05:27.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just took a trash bag outside and turned\Ninto a creature that has no trash bag breasts.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:30.02,0:05:33.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I go out, it’s like a sketchbook.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:35.83,0:05:38.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don’t know what’s gonna happen,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:38.14,0:05:40.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I know that when I get back with the footage,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:40.76,0:05:45.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it’s going to inspire something that happens in my animation.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:51.72,0:05:56.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Learning 3D animation really, really started\Ncause I was obsessed with family footage.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:59.94,0:06:03.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From the video, I notice I’m like constantly\Nobsessed with hanging out with girls,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:04.91,0:06:08.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and my cousins, and they’re kind of like\Nexcluding me and pushing me out.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.56,0:06:11.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"No, Jacolby, you can’t! That’s what the\Ngirls do."
Dialogue: 0,0:06:11.62,0:06:16.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I felt like this desperation to be loved and\Nto belong
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.16,0:06:18.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is something I still, I think I still deal\Nwith today.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:18.58,0:06:22.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it’s kind of like, how do I re-perform\Nall those bodies from my past?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:23.40,0:06:25.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s like a reconstruction.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:28.50,0:06:33.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In my "Country Ball" world, that’s where\NI really explore the possibility of queerness.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:35.52,0:06:40.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I said, "Okay, so I'm going to find twenty\Nof my mother’s drawings"
Dialogue: 0,0:06:40.50,0:06:43.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"that deal with recreational American material\Nculture."
Dialogue: 0,0:06:43.52,0:06:51.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I’m going to find all of her drawings of\Ngrills, slides, sinks, carousels, TV, cakes."
Dialogue: 0,0:06:51.94,0:06:53.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lots of cakes.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:55.66,0:07:01.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I’m removing her intentions of the drawings\Nand combining them with my intentions.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:02.66,0:07:06.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s interesting that her drawings were\Ntrying to subscribe to
Dialogue: 0,0:07:06.74,0:07:08.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the most normal thing you can be.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:08.50,0:07:11.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when they enter my universes, they become\Nsomething else.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:11.54,0:07:13.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They become queered.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:13.34,0:07:16.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s queering the purpose of the object.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:16.80,0:07:20.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A cake becomes a skyscraper.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:21.08,0:07:23.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Women into hermaphrodites.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:31.50,0:07:35.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Torture, gestation, transformation, world-building.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:35.80,0:07:40.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They’re all recurring themes that I love\Nto explore subconsciously in the work.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:40.35,0:07:45.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know that my personal narrative is almost\Nlike a fantasy novel,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:45.46,0:07:49.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it’s so loaded with these weird,\Nesoteric things.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:49.24,0:07:52.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But at the same time, the narrative I’m\Nmost interested in
Dialogue: 0,0:07:52.55,0:07:57.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is what happens \Nwhen drawing, performance, and animation intersect.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:01.80,0:08:06.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I want to figure out how can I take the\Ncharacter from my videos,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:06.85,0:08:09.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,put it into the real world, and figure out
Dialogue: 0,0:08:09.67,0:08:11.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how do I turn them all into participants in the video?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:11.74,0:08:14.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I feel like by me actually participating\Nin that space,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:14.60,0:08:16.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while they’re watching those videos,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:16.11,0:08:18.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it takes it from one dimension to the next.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:20.04,0:08:23.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s like one of those things that I continue\Nto ask myself:
Dialogue: 0,0:08:24.32,0:08:26.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"How am I extending the frame?"
Dialogue: 0,0:08:30.39,0:08:34.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am what you call an extended frame video\Ninstallation performance diva.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:37.52,0:08:39.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I’m chilling with my New Humans.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:39.70,0:08:41.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They my niggas from the South
Dialogue: 0,0:08:41.74,0:08:43.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They know what it’s about.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:43.95,0:08:47.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They about that like a JTS Jacolby Satterwhite\Nlife.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:48.66,0:08:50.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know what, they know me from the back\Nin the day
Dialogue: 0,0:08:50.62,0:08:52.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I did paintings
Dialogue: 0,0:08:52.90,0:08:54.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you don’t know what that’s like, ho,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:54.90,0:08:57.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you don’t know, you don’t know what that’s like.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:57.32,0:08:58.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Blog that shit.