Rashid Johnson Hace Cosas Para Poner Cosas Dentro de Ellas | "New York Close Up" | Art21
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0:01 - 0:09Primer plano de Nueva York
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0:09 - 0:16Rashid Johnson crea cosas para poner otras cosas sobre ellas.
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0:16 - 0:22Rashid Johnson-- Artista
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0:22 - 0:32Cuando estaba creando las piezas...que parecen estanterias, me encontré un libro de Lawrence Wiener " Algo para colocar algo".
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0:32 - 0:38Y uno de los personajes le dice a otro: tengo algo para ti.
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0:38 - 0:39Y el otro personaje le pregunta: ¿qué es?
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0:39 - 0:41El otro le dice: está en la mesa.
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0:41 - 0:44Y el primer personaje le pregunta: ¿qué es una mesa?
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0:44 - 0:49Éste le dice: una mesa es algo para poner cosas sobre ella.
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0:49 - 1:01Y me interesó mucho la idea de poner algo encima de algo, un tipo de semiótica de cómo y por qué existen las cosas y cómo las llamamos.
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1:01 - 1:06Así que empecé a crear cosas para poner algo sobre ellas.
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1:06 - 1:14Y después, me pregunté, ¿ y qué pongo en esta cosa que he creado para poner cosas encima?
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1:14 - 1:20Ah, y después pensé, estás empezando a verme como un tipo que usa las cosas que están a mi alrededor.
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1:20 - 1:27Ya sean los libros que leo, las grabaciones que escucho, las cosas que me pongo...
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1:27 - 1:34Y esos materiales empiezan a cuajar... para formar lo que pensaba que era una, ya sabéis mi conversación.
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1:39 - 1:43Creo que esto siempre ha estado presente en mi trabajo, siempre me ha interesado lo doméstico.
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1:43 - 1:50Y todo tipo de cosas a las que estamos acostumbrados y de las que nos apropiamos.
- Title:
- Rashid Johnson Hace Cosas Para Poner Cosas Dentro de Ellas | "New York Close Up" | Art21
- Description:
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How does an artist contribute his own personal story in the face of prevailing historical narratives? In this film, Rashid Johnson discusses the fluid nature of black identity in America and its escapist tendencies, from the Afrocentric politics of Marcus Garvey to the cosmic philosophy of Sun Ra. Johnson's invented secret society—"The New Negro Escapist Social and Athletic Club"—is a framework through which the artist humorously upends, through repetition and juxtaposition, conventional expectations of historical influence and legacy. Inspired by a story by the artist Lawrence Weiner in which one character says to another that "a table is something to put something on," Johnson creates sculptures of shelf-like structures from materials such as black wax, mirror, tile, and branded wood. Each structure is filled with culturally resonant objects—such as Miles Davis and Ramsey Lewis jazz records, books by comedians Dick Gregory and Bill Cosby, and treatises by scholars such as W.E.B. Du Bois and Debra J. Dickerson—as well as the artist's own photographs and hand-made objects. Featuring works from the exhibitions "The Dead Lecturer" (2008) and "Other Aspects" (2009-10), as well as works-in-progress in the artist's Williamsburg studio.
Rashid Johnson (b. 1977, Chicago, Illinois, USA) lives and works in New York and Brooklyn, New York.
CREDITS | "New York Close Up" Created & Produced by: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Editor: Mary Ann Toman. Cinematography: Andrew David Watson. Key Grip: John Marton. Sound: Nicholas Lindner & Nick Ravich. Associate Producer: Ian Forster. Production Assistant: Paulina V. Ahlstrom, Don Edler & Maren Miller. Design: Open. Artwork: Rashid Johnson. Thanks: Javier Cordero, Alex Ernst & Brian Lewis. An Art21 Workshop Production. © Art21, Inc. 2011. All rights reserved.
"New York Close Up" is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Additional support provided by The 1896 Studios & Stages.
For more info: http://www.art21.org/newyorkcloseup
- Video Language:
- English
- Team:
- Art21
- Project:
- "New York Close Up" series
- Duration:
- 05:44
Esther Premkumar edited Spanish subtitles for Rashid Johnson Makes Things to Put Things On | "New York Close Up" | Art21 | ||
Blanca Martínez edited Spanish subtitles for Rashid Johnson Makes Things to Put Things On | "New York Close Up" | Art21 | ||
mandylindes added a translation |