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Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.68,0:00:12.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Bruce Nauman: "Poke in the Eye/Nose/Ear"]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.96,0:00:16.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is it, "Poke in the Eye?"
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.84,0:00:18.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Ear?"
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.18,0:00:22.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is it?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.72,0:00:24.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Poke in the Eye, Ear, and Nose?"
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.72,0:00:27.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Eye, Nose, and Ear?"
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.08,0:00:27.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Eye, Ear, and Nose?"
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.98,0:00:29.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whatever. [LAUGHS]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.29,0:00:38.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My videos always involve
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.51,0:00:43.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some idea of a human being in a unusual situation--
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.84,0:00:44.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and what happens.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.30,0:01:18.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's shot in a very slow motion
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.04,0:01:19.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with a high-speed camera.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.08,0:01:22.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In this case it was projected as a large image.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.62,0:01:30.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so, you're watching this uncomfortable activity take place
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.15,0:01:32.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the same time as you're watching
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.74,0:01:34.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the way the colors change;
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.84,0:01:36.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the way the creases in the skin changes;
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.68,0:01:37.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the way the shadows change
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.88,0:01:40.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and move across the screen very slowly,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.54,0:01:43.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that they do become very abstract.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.65,0:01:48.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As things go in and out of focus,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.85,0:01:52.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your attention moves around quite a bit.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.34,0:01:55.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's slowed down enough--
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.45,0:01:56.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,things happen slowly enough--
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.55,0:01:58.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that it becomes almost like a moon landscape,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.88,0:02:03.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you start just watching the slow frame-by-frame changes.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.93,0:02:08.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what I liked about it.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.28,0:02:11.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Again, another way of taking an activity
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.62,0:02:15.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and changing it's meaning--
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.25,0:02:19.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,abstracting it by stretching out the time,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.78,0:02:24.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and allowing you to see things
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.19,0:02:26.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you couldn't see otherwise,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.72,0:02:30.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,making you watch the formal parts of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.52,0:02:43.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A lot of people were thinking about
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.82,0:02:45.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how to structure time.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.48,0:02:49.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,John Cage was making different kinds of ways of making music,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.19,0:02:52.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Merce was structuring dance in different kinds of ways,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.12,0:02:55.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then Warhol was making films that
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.34,0:02:57.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,went on for a long period of time.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.88,0:02:59.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of the things I liked about some of those people
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.72,0:03:03.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was that they thought of their works as just on-going,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.39,0:03:05.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so you can come and go,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.31,0:03:07.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the work was there.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.35,0:03:09.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so there wasn't a specific duration.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.12,0:03:12.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So where this thing can just repeat and repeat and repeat,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.22,0:03:14.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you don't have to sit and watch the whole thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.05,0:03:15.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can watch for a while, leave, and go have lunch.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.95,0:03:17.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or, come back in a week,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.15,0:03:18.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's just going on.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.34,0:03:20.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I really like that idea of
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.28,0:03:22.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the thing just being there.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.31,0:03:24.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It became almost like an object that was there,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.85,0:03:27.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you can go back and visit whenever you wanted to.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.59,0:03:33.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's probably more painful for the viewer than it was for me.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.62,0:03:34.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[LAUGHS]
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.05,0:03:36.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't hurt myself.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.72,0:03:37.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[LAUGHS]