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Dialogue: 0,0:00:01.00,0:00:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The brilliant playwright, Adrienne Kennedy,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.00,0:00:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wrote a volume called
Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.00,0:00:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"People Who Led to My Plays."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.00,0:00:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if I were to write a volume,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.00,0:00:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it would be called,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.00,0:00:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Artists Who Have Led My Exhibitions"
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.00,0:00:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because my work,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.00,0:00:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in understanding art and in understanding culture,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.00,0:00:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has come by following artists,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.00,0:00:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by looking at what artists mean
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.00,0:00:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and what they do and who they are.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.00,0:00:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,J.J. from "Good Times,"
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.00,0:00:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.00,0:00:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,significant to many people of course
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.00,0:00:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because of "Dy-no-mite,"
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.00,0:00:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but perhaps more significant
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.00,0:00:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as the first, really, black artist
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.00,0:00:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on primetime TV.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.00,0:00:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jean-Michel Basquiat,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.00,0:00:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,important to me because [he was]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.00,0:00:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the first black artist in real time
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.00,0:00:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that showed me the possibility of
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.00,0:00:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who and what I was about to enter into.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.00,0:01:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My overall project is about art --
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.00,0:01:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,specifically, about black artists --
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.00,0:01:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,very generally
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.00,0:01:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about the way in which art
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.00,0:01:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can change the way we think
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.00,0:01:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about culture and ourselves.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.00,0:01:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My interest is in artists
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.00,0:01:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who understand and rewrite history,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.00,0:01:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who think about themselves
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.00,0:01:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,within the narrative
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.00,0:01:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the larger world of art,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.00,0:01:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but who have created new places
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.00,0:01:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for us to see and understand.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.00,0:01:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm showing two artists here, \NGlenn Ligon and Kara Walker,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.00,0:01:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,two of many who really form for me
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.00,0:01:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the essential questions that I wanted to bring
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.00,0:01:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a curator to the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.00,0:01:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was interested in the idea
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.00,0:01:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of why and how
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.00,0:01:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I could create a new story,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.00,0:01:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a new narrative in art history
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.00,0:01:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a new narrative in the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.00,0:01:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And to do this, I knew
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.00,0:01:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I had to see the way in which artists work,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.00,0:01:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,understand the artist's studio
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.00,0:01:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a laboratory,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.00,0:02:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,imagine, then,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.00,0:02:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,reinventing the museum as a think tank
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.00,0:02:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and looking at the exhibition
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.00,0:02:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as the ultimate white paper -- asking questions,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.00,0:02:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,providing the space
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.00,0:02:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to look and to think about answers.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.00,0:02:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 1994,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.00,0:02:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I was a curator at the Whitney Museum,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.00,0:02:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I made an exhibition called Black Male.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.00,0:02:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It looked at the intersection
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.00,0:02:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of race and gender
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.00,0:02:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in contemporary American art.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.00,0:02:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It sought to express
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.00,0:02:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the ways in which art
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.00,0:02:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,could provide a space for dialogue --
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.00,0:02:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,complicated dialogue,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.00,0:02:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,dialogue with many, many points of entry --
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.00,0:02:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and how the museum could be the space
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.00,0:02:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for this contest of ideas.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.00,0:02:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This exhibition included
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.00,0:02:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,over 20 artists
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.00,0:02:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of various ages and races,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.00,0:02:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but all looking at black masculinity
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.00,0:02:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from a very particular point of view.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.00,0:03:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What was significant about this exhibition
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.00,0:03:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the way in which
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.00,0:03:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it engaged me in my role
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.00,0:03:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a curator, as a catalyst,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.00,0:03:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for this dialogue.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.00,0:03:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of the things that happened
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.00,0:03:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,very distinctly in the course of this exhibition
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.00,0:03:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is I was confronted with the idea
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.00,0:03:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of how powerful images can be
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.00,0:03:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in people's understanding \Nof themselves and each other.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.00,0:03:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm showing you two works, one on the right by Leon Golub,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.00,0:03:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one on the left by Robert Colescott.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.00,0:03:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in the course of the exhibition --
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.00,0:03:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which was contentious, controversial
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.00,0:03:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and ultimately, for me,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.00,0:03:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,life-changing
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.00,0:03:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in my sense of what art could be --
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.00,0:03:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a woman came up to me on the gallery floor
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.00,0:03:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to express her concern about the nature
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.00,0:03:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of how powerful images could be
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.00,0:03:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and how we understood each other.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.00,0:03:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And she pointed to the work on the left
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.00,0:03:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to tell me how problematic this image was,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.00,0:03:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as it related, for her, to the idea of
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.00,0:03:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how black people had been represented.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.00,0:03:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And she pointed to the image on the right
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.00,0:04:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as an example, to me, of the kind of dignity
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.00,0:04:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that needed to be portrayed
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.00,0:04:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to work against those images in the media.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.00,0:04:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She then assigned these works racial identities,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.00,0:04:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,basically saying to me that the work on the right,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.00,0:04:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,clearly, was made by a black artist,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.00,0:04:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the work on the left, clearly, by a white artist,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.00,0:04:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when, in effect,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:16.00,0:04:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that was the opposite case:
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.00,0:04:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bob Colescott, African-American artist;
Dialogue: 0,0:04:20.00,0:04:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Leon Golub, a white artist.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.00,0:04:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The point of that for me was
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.00,0:04:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to say -- in that space, in that moment --
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.00,0:04:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I really, more than anything,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.00,0:04:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wanted to understand
Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.00,0:04:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how images could work, how images did work,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.00,0:04:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and how artists provided
Dialogue: 0,0:04:36.00,0:04:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a space bigger than one
Dialogue: 0,0:04:38.00,0:04:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we could imagine in our day-to-day lives
Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.00,0:04:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to work through these images.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.00,0:04:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fast-forward and I end up in Harlem;
Dialogue: 0,0:04:46.00,0:04:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,home for many of black America,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.00,0:04:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,very much the psychic heart
Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.00,0:04:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the black experience,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:54.00,0:04:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,really the place where the Harlem Renaissance existed.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:58.00,0:05:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Harlem now, sort of explaining
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.00,0:05:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and thinking of itself in this part of the century,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.00,0:05:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,looking both backwards and forwards ...
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.00,0:05:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I always say Harlem is an interesting community
Dialogue: 0,0:05:08.00,0:05:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because, unlike many other places,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:10.00,0:05:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it thinks of itself in the past, present
Dialogue: 0,0:05:12.00,0:05:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the future simultaneously;
Dialogue: 0,0:05:14.00,0:05:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no one speaks of it just in the now.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:16.00,0:05:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's always what it was and what it can be.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:19.00,0:05:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, in thinking about that,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:21.00,0:05:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then my second project, the second question I ask is:
Dialogue: 0,0:05:23.00,0:05:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can a museum
Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.00,0:05:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,be a catalyst in a community?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:27.00,0:05:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can a museum house artists
Dialogue: 0,0:05:29.00,0:05:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and allow them to be change agents
Dialogue: 0,0:05:31.00,0:05:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as communities rethink themselves?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:34.00,0:05:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is Harlem, actually, on January 20th,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:37.00,0:05:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thinking about itself in a very wonderful way.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:41.00,0:05:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I work now at The Studio Museum in Harlem,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:43.00,0:05:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thinking about exhibitions there,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:45.00,0:05:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thinking about what it means to
Dialogue: 0,0:05:47.00,0:05:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,discover art's possibility.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.00,0:05:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, what does this mean to some of you?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:51.00,0:05:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In some cases, I know that many of you
Dialogue: 0,0:05:54.00,0:05:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are involved in cross-cultural dialogues,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:56.00,0:05:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're involved in ideas of creativity and innovation.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:59.00,0:06:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Think about the place that artists can play in that --
Dialogue: 0,0:06:02.00,0:06:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is the kind of incubation and advocacy
Dialogue: 0,0:06:05.00,0:06:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I work towards, in working with young, black artists.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.00,0:06:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Think about artists, not as content providers,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:10.00,0:06:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,though they can be brilliant at that,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:12.00,0:06:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but, again, as real catalysts.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.00,0:06:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Studio Museum was founded in the late 60s.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:19.00,0:06:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I bring this up because it's important to locate
Dialogue: 0,0:06:22.00,0:06:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this practice in history.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:24.00,0:06:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To look at 1968,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:26.00,0:06:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the incredible historic moment that it is,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:28.00,0:06:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and think of the arc that has happened since then,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:31.00,0:06:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to think of the possibilities that we are all
Dialogue: 0,0:06:34.00,0:06:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,privileged to stand in today
Dialogue: 0,0:06:36.00,0:06:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and imagine that this museum
Dialogue: 0,0:06:38.00,0:06:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that came out of a moment of great protest
Dialogue: 0,0:06:40.00,0:06:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and one that was so much about
Dialogue: 0,0:06:42.00,0:06:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,examining the history and the legacy
Dialogue: 0,0:06:44.00,0:06:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of important African-American artists
Dialogue: 0,0:06:47.00,0:06:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the history of art in this country
Dialogue: 0,0:06:49.00,0:06:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like Jacob Lawrence, Norman Lewis,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:51.00,0:06:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Romare Bearden.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:53.00,0:06:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then, of course,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:55.00,0:06:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to bring us to today.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:57.00,0:06:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 1975, Muhammad Ali
Dialogue: 0,0:06:59.00,0:07:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gave a lecture at Harvard University.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:01.00,0:07:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After his lecture, a student got up and said to him,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:04.00,0:07:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Give us a poem."
Dialogue: 0,0:07:06.00,0:07:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Mohammed Ali said, "Me, we."
Dialogue: 0,0:07:08.00,0:07:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A profound statement about the individual and the community.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:11.00,0:07:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The space in which now,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:13.00,0:07:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in my project of discovery, of thinking about artists,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:16.00,0:07:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of trying to define
Dialogue: 0,0:07:18.00,0:07:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what might be
Dialogue: 0,0:07:20.00,0:07:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,black art cultural movement of the 21st century.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:23.00,0:07:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What that might mean
Dialogue: 0,0:07:25.00,0:07:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for cultural movements all over this moment,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:28.00,0:07:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the "me, we" seems
Dialogue: 0,0:07:30.00,0:07:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,incredibly prescient
Dialogue: 0,0:07:32.00,0:07:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,totally important.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:34.00,0:07:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To this end,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:36.00,0:07:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the specific project that has made this possible for me
Dialogue: 0,0:07:39.00,0:07:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is a series of exhibitions,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:41.00,0:07:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all titled with an F --
Dialogue: 0,0:07:43.00,0:07:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Freestyle, Frequency and Flow --
Dialogue: 0,0:07:45.00,0:07:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which have set out to discover
Dialogue: 0,0:07:47.00,0:07:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and define
Dialogue: 0,0:07:49.00,0:07:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the young, black artists working in this moment
Dialogue: 0,0:07:52.00,0:07:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who I feel strongly
Dialogue: 0,0:07:54.00,0:07:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will continue to work over the next many years.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:57.00,0:07:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This series of exhibitions
Dialogue: 0,0:07:59.00,0:08:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was made specifically
Dialogue: 0,0:08:01.00,0:08:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to try and question
Dialogue: 0,0:08:03.00,0:08:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the idea of what it would mean
Dialogue: 0,0:08:05.00,0:08:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,now, at this point in history,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:07.00,0:08:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to see art as a catalyst;
Dialogue: 0,0:08:10.00,0:08:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what it means now, at this point in history,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:12.00,0:08:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as we define and redefine culture,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:15.00,0:08:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,black culture specifically in my case,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:17.00,0:08:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but culture generally.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:19.00,0:08:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I named this group of artists
Dialogue: 0,0:08:21.00,0:08:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,around an idea, which I put out there
Dialogue: 0,0:08:24.00,0:08:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,called post-black,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:26.00,0:08:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,really meant to define them
Dialogue: 0,0:08:28.00,0:08:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as artists who came and start their work now,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:31.00,0:08:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,looking back at history but start in this moment, historically.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:35.00,0:08:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is really in this sense of discovery
Dialogue: 0,0:08:38.00,0:08:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I have a new set of questions that I'm asking.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:41.00,0:08:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This new set of questions is:
Dialogue: 0,0:08:43.00,0:08:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What does it mean, right now,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:45.00,0:08:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be African-American in America?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:48.00,0:08:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What can artwork say about this?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:51.00,0:08:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where can a museum exist
Dialogue: 0,0:08:54.00,0:08:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as the place for us all
Dialogue: 0,0:08:57.00,0:08:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to have this conversation?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:59.00,0:09:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Really, most exciting about this
Dialogue: 0,0:09:01.00,0:09:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is thinking about the energy and the excitement
Dialogue: 0,0:09:04.00,0:09:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that young artists can bring.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:06.00,0:09:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Their works for me are about,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:08.00,0:09:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not always just simply
Dialogue: 0,0:09:10.00,0:09:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about the aesthetic innovation
Dialogue: 0,0:09:12.00,0:09:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that their minds imagine, that their visions create
Dialogue: 0,0:09:15.00,0:09:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and put out there in the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:17.00,0:09:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but more, perhaps, importantly,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:19.00,0:09:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through the excitement of the community
Dialogue: 0,0:09:21.00,0:09:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they create as important voices
Dialogue: 0,0:09:24.00,0:09:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that would allow us right now to understand our situation,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:27.00,0:09:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as well as in the future.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:29.00,0:09:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am continually amazed
Dialogue: 0,0:09:32.00,0:09:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by the way in which
Dialogue: 0,0:09:34.00,0:09:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the subject of race
Dialogue: 0,0:09:36.00,0:09:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can take itself in many places
Dialogue: 0,0:09:39.00,0:09:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we don't imagine it should be.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:41.00,0:09:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am always amazed
Dialogue: 0,0:09:44.00,0:09:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by the way in which artists are willing
Dialogue: 0,0:09:46.00,0:09:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to do that in their work.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:48.00,0:09:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is why I look to art.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:50.00,0:09:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's why I ask questions of art.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:52.00,0:09:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is why I make exhibitions.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:55.00,0:09:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, this exhibition, as I said,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:57.00,0:10:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,40 young artists done over the course of eight years,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:00.00,0:10:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and for me it's about considering the implications.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:04.00,0:10:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's considering the implications of
Dialogue: 0,0:10:06.00,0:10:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what this generation has to say to the rest of us.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:09.00,0:10:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's considering what it means for these artists
Dialogue: 0,0:10:12.00,0:10:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be both out in the world as their work travels,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:14.00,0:10:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but in their communities
Dialogue: 0,0:10:16.00,0:10:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as people who are seeing and thinking
Dialogue: 0,0:10:19.00,0:10:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about the issues that face us.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:22.00,0:10:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's also about thinking about
Dialogue: 0,0:10:24.00,0:10:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the creative spirit and nurturing it,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:26.00,0:10:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and imagining, particularly in urban America,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:28.00,0:10:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about the nurturing of the spirit.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:31.00,0:10:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, where, perhaps, does this end up right now?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:34.00,0:10:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For me, it is about re-imagining
Dialogue: 0,0:10:37.00,0:10:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this cultural discourse in an international context.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:40.00,0:10:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the last iteration of this project
Dialogue: 0,0:10:43.00,0:10:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has been called Flow,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:45.00,0:10:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the idea now of creating
Dialogue: 0,0:10:47.00,0:10:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a real network
Dialogue: 0,0:10:49.00,0:10:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of artists around the world;
Dialogue: 0,0:10:51.00,0:10:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,really looking, not so much
Dialogue: 0,0:10:53.00,0:10:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from Harlem and out, but looking across,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:56.00,0:10:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Flow looked at artists all born on the continent of Africa.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:59.00,0:11:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as many of us think about that continent
Dialogue: 0,0:11:02.00,0:11:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and think about what if means
Dialogue: 0,0:11:04.00,0:11:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to us all in the 21st century,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:06.00,0:11:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have begun that looking
Dialogue: 0,0:11:08.00,0:11:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through artists, through artworks,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:10.00,0:11:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and imagining what they can tell us about the future,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:13.00,0:11:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what they tell us about our future,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:16.00,0:11:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and what they create in their sense of
Dialogue: 0,0:11:19.00,0:11:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,offering us this great possibility of watching
Dialogue: 0,0:11:22.00,0:11:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that continent emerge as part
Dialogue: 0,0:11:24.00,0:11:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of our bigger dialogue.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:26.00,0:11:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, what do I discover
Dialogue: 0,0:11:28.00,0:11:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I look at artworks?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:30.00,0:11:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What do I think about
Dialogue: 0,0:11:32.00,0:11:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I think about art?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:34.00,0:11:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I feel like the privilege I've had as a curator
Dialogue: 0,0:11:36.00,0:11:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is not just the discovery of new works,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:39.00,0:11:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the discovery of exciting works.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:41.00,0:11:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, really, it has been
Dialogue: 0,0:11:43.00,0:11:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what I've discovered about myself
Dialogue: 0,0:11:45.00,0:11:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and what I can offer
Dialogue: 0,0:11:47.00,0:11:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the space of an exhibition,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:49.00,0:11:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to talk about beauty, to talk about power,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:52.00,0:11:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to talk about ourselves,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:54.00,0:11:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to talk and speak to each other.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:57.00,0:12:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what makes me get up every day
Dialogue: 0,0:12:00.00,0:12:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and want to think about
Dialogue: 0,0:12:02.00,0:12:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this generation of black artists and artists around the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:05.00,0:12:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you. (Applause)