Janine Antoni | Art21 | Preview from Season 2 of "Art in the Twenty-First Century" (2003)
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0:00 - 0:05[intro music]
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0:14 - 0:19I practiced tightroping for about an hour a day
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0:19 - 0:23and after about a week I started to feel like
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0:23 - 0:28I'm now getting my balance
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0:29 - 0:32I started to notice that it wasn't that I was getting
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0:32 - 0:35more balanced, but that I was getting more comfortable with
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0:35 - 0:38being out of balance.
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0:39 - 0:42Rather than getting nervous and overcompensating
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0:42 - 0:45if I could just compensate enough
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0:45 - 0:48and I thought I wish I could that in my life.
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0:51 - 0:54After going down many different avenues,
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0:54 - 0:58I decided to make this work 'Touch' and what I did is I went
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0:58 - 1:02home to the Bahamas to the beach that was directly in front
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1:03 - 1:05of the house I grew up in.
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1:06 - 1:08It made sense for me to go back to
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1:08 - 1:11this horizon I had looked at my whole life.
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1:12 - 1:14[sound of ocean waves]
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1:15 - 1:17[ocean waves and birds chirping]
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1:24 - 1:26I thought it would have much more tension
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1:26 - 1:29if I could walk along the rope and as it dip
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1:30 - 1:34that just for a moment I would touch the horizon.
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1:34 - 1:36[ocean waves and birds chirping]
- Title:
- Janine Antoni | Art21 | Preview from Season 2 of "Art in the Twenty-First Century" (2003)
- Description:
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Janine Antoni's work blurs the distinction between performance art and sculpture. Antoni transforms everyday activities such as eating, bathing, and sleeping into ways of making art, such as painting and sculpting. Themes in her work include mortality, desire and the body.
Janine Antoni is featured in the Season 2 episode "Loss & Desire" of the Art21 series "Art:21 -- Art in the Twenty-First Century".
Learn more about Janine Antoni: http://www.art21.org/artists/janine-antoni
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- Video Language:
- English
- Team:
- Art21
- Project:
- Season previews
- Duration:
- 01:53
Carolina Tamara edited English subtitles for Janine Antoni | Art21 | Preview from Season 2 of "Art in the Twenty-First Century" (2003) | ||
Carolina Tamara edited English subtitles for Janine Antoni | Art21 | Preview from Season 2 of "Art in the Twenty-First Century" (2003) | ||
Carolina Tamara added a translation |