Preview: Stephanie Syjuco in Season 9 of Art21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" (2018)
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0:04 - 0:09[STEPHANIE SYJUCO]
If we're to look at the complexity of
our contemporary culture, -
0:09 - 0:11our political moment,
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0:11 - 0:12our lived realities--
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0:12 - 0:18I want my work to be as complicated as well.
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0:18 - 0:20That there isn't just one way to look at it--
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0:20 - 0:23depending on your perspective,
you'll see it a different way. -
0:24 - 0:27And I also wanted to inhabit contradictions.
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0:27 - 0:28--Alright, fierce.
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0:32 - 0:35And so, looking at images of protest,
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0:35 - 0:37we created these composite characters.
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0:39 - 0:40And so they're fictions.
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0:43 - 0:48Black-clad individuals are usually
associated with a very direct action. -
0:49 - 0:52Is it a character that one finds problematic
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0:52 - 0:56or is it something that might elicit even
some empathy?