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Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.46,0:00:08.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[JES FAN]\NOnce you've seen them,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.08,0:00:10.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're lodged in your mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.68,0:00:15.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Especially thinking of them as\None of the first few representations
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.82,0:00:19.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the Chinese person as a subject.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.12,0:00:28.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a medical missionary\Ncalled Peter Parker
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.26,0:00:32.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who traveled to Canton to perform\Nthe surgical incision of tumors
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.94,0:00:36.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the early nineteenth century.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.41,0:00:40.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lam Qua was a really celebrated painter \Nat the time.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.52,0:00:43.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was most famous for painting portraitures.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.28,0:00:49.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I suppose that Lam Qua was also celebrated
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.88,0:00:52.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by how accurate he can paint his sitters.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.73,0:00:54.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's known for this one quote saying,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.92,0:00:57.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"What eye no see, no can do."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.22,0:01:07.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's something about Chinese-ness here.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.56,0:01:12.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thinking, like,\Nhow did Chinese-ness become a word?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.34,0:01:19.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What are the technologies that's involved\Nin creating this idea of "the other"?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.70,0:01:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why does the shoulder need to be bare?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.00,0:01:31.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like, the braid of hair is placed.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.96,0:01:36.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's just so seductive,\Nand I was wondering if that kind of seduction
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.36,0:01:39.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has to come in a way that you're able to see
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.26,0:01:43.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the sitter as a fellow human.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.44,0:01:54.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,["Jes Fan: Infectious Beauty"]
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.48,0:02:03.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think it made me really try to understand\Nthe idea of beauty and seduction.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.68,0:02:06.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think my work has a lot to do with seduction.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.64,0:02:13.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nowadays, beauty is really flat.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.24,0:02:16.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's only one emotion you can emote on\Nsocial media,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.76,0:02:18.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is the double tap, right?\N[LAUGHS]
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.76,0:02:20.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That there's only a heart shape.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.46,0:02:22.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When something is beautiful,\Nit's just a flat heart.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.30,0:02:34.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But then, when you think of\Nbeauty in the past,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.94,0:02:36.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's beauty and the sublime.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.56,0:02:40.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It has to come with this suspension--
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.70,0:02:41.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this fear.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.20,0:02:50.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It also meant, in the past,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.41,0:02:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to describe something that was so beautiful
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.00,0:02:56.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that it almost makes you want to puke.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.20,0:02:56.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[LAUGHS]
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.88,0:03:08.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Originally, I grew up in Hong Kong.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.02,0:03:10.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's very oppressive, being queer there,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.92,0:03:16.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just not being able to see yourself reflected\Nin society,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.14,0:03:18.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nor even within just
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.76,0:03:22.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,being able to see happy, queer adults--
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.67,0:03:24.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or queer adults in general.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.00,0:03:31.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's kind of not being able to see a future\Nextension of yourself.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.26,0:03:37.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had a really rough few years growing up,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.92,0:03:40.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,trying to find who I can be.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:21.56,0:05:22.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[JULIE WOLF]\NSo my understanding of the piece
Dialogue: 0,0:05:22.98,0:05:25.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that you make it so that it's a glass shape\Nof something.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.99,0:05:29.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then, you add the melanin to the piece,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:29.84,0:05:31.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then fill it with silicon afterwards,\Ncorrect?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:31.86,0:05:32.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[FAN]\NYeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:32.86,0:05:35.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[WOLF]\NWhat we want to make is melanin.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:36.16,0:05:38.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the final physical form that we're going\Nto make.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:38.22,0:05:40.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is called L-DOPA.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:40.93,0:05:44.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In this case, L-DOPA is a really\Nunstable molecule.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:44.60,0:05:46.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you expose it to light
Dialogue: 0,0:05:46.91,0:05:49.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or ambient temperature,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.13,0:05:52.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it will start to do something called autopolymerizing.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:52.02,0:05:53.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's going to start to make a polymer,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:53.97,0:05:55.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is a repeated subunit,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:55.97,0:05:58.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is going to be related to that melanin.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:59.04,0:06:02.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So what we're going to do is to make the conditions
Dialogue: 0,0:06:02.12,0:06:05.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as unstable for L-DOPA as possible,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:05.40,0:06:08.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that we can bypass the biological process
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.78,0:06:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and just get right to the melanin.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.24,0:06:17.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it's not as dark,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:17.49,0:06:19.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but you can see that\Nthere's the flakes in there.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:19.52,0:06:21.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[FAN]\NSo crazy that they're warm.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:21.34,0:06:22.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[WOLF]\NYeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:22.34,0:06:25.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[FAN]\NIt would be great to have them...
Dialogue: 0,0:06:25.72,0:06:28.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,something that you can identify or trigger,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:29.00,0:06:31.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and sort of hope that is that.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:31.19,0:06:32.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because the plates you gave me
Dialogue: 0,0:06:32.92,0:06:34.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the E. coli,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:34.88,0:06:36.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they look exactly like molds.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:37.10,0:06:40.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So let's hope that these will grow happily
Dialogue: 0,0:06:41.88,0:06:45.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and into more slurry-like, you know?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:08.06,0:07:10.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A lot of what I'm trying to do with
Dialogue: 0,0:07:10.70,0:07:12.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what we consider as gendered materials,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:12.88,0:07:14.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or racialized materials,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:14.44,0:07:17.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're just really, really absurd.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:23.06,0:07:24.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's like a cooking show.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:24.56,0:07:25.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have semen,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:25.80,0:07:26.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,blood,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:27.26,0:07:28.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,melanin,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:28.20,0:07:29.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and pee.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:29.80,0:07:30.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[LAUGHS]
Dialogue: 0,0:07:33.00,0:07:35.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So at the time I was thinking a lot about\Nhow race,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:35.61,0:07:36.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,especially in the U.S.,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:36.98,0:07:38.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is seen as infectious.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:38.96,0:07:41.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Think about China and coronavirus.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:41.73,0:07:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Think about SARS and being in Hong Kong.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:44.00,0:07:47.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And think about Jim Crow era,\Nnot sharing bodies of water.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:48.66,0:07:51.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That idea of it being infected.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:57.24,0:08:01.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These days in Asia, the beauty is smooth,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:01.60,0:08:04.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has no corners,\Ndoes not repulse.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:05.32,0:08:06.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's something about...
Dialogue: 0,0:08:06.59,0:08:09.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,doing this is subverting that balance,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:09.63,0:08:12.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's showing the labor to acquire that smoothness.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:12.54,0:08:15.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And by showing it,\Nit looks like these infectious rings.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:18.34,0:08:22.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But then, also the materials\Nthat's carried in these bulbous forms
Dialogue: 0,0:08:22.43,0:08:25.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are actually semen that's decaying.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:25.25,0:08:27.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I find that very funny.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:27.86,0:08:30.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[LAUGHS]
Dialogue: 0,0:08:35.60,0:08:39.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's very much about\Nhaving forms fitting into each other
Dialogue: 0,0:08:39.26,0:08:43.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and somehow evoking a sense of this uncanniness,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:43.62,0:08:47.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but simultaneously so erotic\Nthat you can't stop.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:47.74,0:08:50.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But to be attracted to it,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:51.38,0:08:53.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that eroticness
Dialogue: 0,0:08:54.06,0:08:55.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,seduces you.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:58.46,0:09:00.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's beauty in the gloss,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:00.02,0:09:03.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the possibility to see your own reflection\Nin it.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:03.96,0:09:04.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the same time,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:04.96,0:09:07.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're actually staring at something that\Nrepulses you,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:07.59,0:09:11.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that actually is considered infectious
Dialogue: 0,0:09:11.26,0:09:12.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or unclean.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:22.42,0:09:26.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My therapist says that I'm so familiar with\Noppression
Dialogue: 0,0:09:26.74,0:09:30.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that danger and risk and oppression makes\Nme feel at home.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:30.93,0:09:34.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I slave myself away in the studio.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:34.66,0:09:37.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or, like, I deprive myself of pleasure
Dialogue: 0,0:09:37.69,0:09:40.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I'm not oppressed\Nas a queer being here.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:40.69,0:09:41.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[LAUGHS]
Dialogue: 0,0:09:43.86,0:09:46.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I oppress myself now.\N[LAUGHS]
Dialogue: 0,0:09:49.50,0:09:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because I can't go back if I fail.