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00:50 I was painting this wall yesterday,
00:53 kind of looking like a maniac to everybody
00:55 in the surrounding booths that I was working with.
00:56 They're all working today, and they're like, oh,
00:59 you look kind of sane today.
01:01 I left ink all over my face.
01:04 But you know, it's the price of the job.
01:11 This also may be a good makeup look for me to have ink
01:13 all over my face a little bit.
01:14 Anyway, that's besides the point.
01:18 So for when I make a sculpture installation in various cities
01:23 that I've been lucky enough to be invited to make
01:25 sculpture installations in, I usually
01:29 collect about, let's say, 60 objects,
01:32 as simple as a broken piece of shelving,
01:35 like an old mirror, a TV.
01:39 I bring them into usually a gallery space,
01:41 an institutional space, one time a rooftop at Lecce,
01:45 like a kind of historic building, very medieval.
01:48 And I'm allowed to run wild.
01:52 I'm left alone for a bit.
01:53 I make compositions, and usually I work by myself.
01:58 My mom has back problems.
01:59 I'm going to start having more people help me, usually.
02:02 So I get a massage every time I'm done.
02:04 But otherwise, I'm usually alone,
02:06 and I'm able to make compositions like these.
02:10 But they're never exactly the same,
02:11 because I never find exactly the same thing.
02:13 And I tend to avoid Ikea stuff.
02:15 Not that I don't like Ikea stuff.
02:17 I love Ikea stuff.
02:18 But that is one thing I've been able to find in every single
02:20 city that I've been in.
02:21 But here, of course, there's a local flavor to the things
02:25 that I found.
02:25 And there's a really strong color palette to the things
02:29 that I found, which I love.
02:31 And I don't know if I came back and did this in 20 years
02:34 in Cologne, that I would necessarily--
02:36 I definitely wouldn't find the same quality of things even.
02:39 And maybe the color palette would change.
02:41 But anyway, with that being said,
02:43 every time that I go to a new city to make sculpture,
02:46 I write a poem while I'm collecting the objects, which
02:49 is what you see on the wall back here.
02:51 This is the poem that I wrote while I was in Cologne.
02:53 And I rip out lines from those poems to title the sculptures.
03:00 So I thought for this, I would read the poem that's back here.
03:05 But then also, I would read poems from installations
03:09 that I've made in Lecce, in Italy, in Tbilisi, in Georgia,
03:14 in Geneva, in Switzerland, and yeah, in Miami as well.
03:21 I have these poems all saved on my phone
03:23 because I write them all on my phone notes.
03:25 And luckily, they're dated.
03:26 And that lets me have a little bit of a memory of them.
03:31 But yeah, I'll just read like four or five.
03:33 [LAUGHTER]
03:37 But I can start with the poem that's right behind me.
03:45 So the poem here, I mean, the logic behind it
03:47 is I like to do this kind of--
03:49 I mean, it starts from the bottom and then keeps going.
03:51 And then breaks off over there like a game
03:54 of snake on your phone.
03:57 Yeah.
03:58 So this-- "Traffic down, memory station, fear in its name,
04:04 style, form, form, form, listing moments,
04:08 falling inwards, type of thing to do.
04:11 Salad days, myself forming.
04:13 Selling, Spangawi, meet me later.
04:15 Died, tried, forlorn, myself, Sam.
04:18 Myself, people she cast, index, bedding, myself, for you.
04:22 Salad in it, myself, for you, saw it, dead, farm, fixer upper.
04:27 Mom and baby, I see, rape, girl, be off myself.
04:31 Take it, I sent your files, done and for done.
04:33 Sexy, die, gate closed, bye bye.
04:36 Yes, it's in people, fuck it, fuck it.
04:38 Baby, baby, hello, later."
04:41 So I think I was like going to one of these parties
04:45 at that time, or maybe I was like,
04:47 oh my God, that was that poem that came from there.
04:50 But you know, some of them are more--
04:52 oh, OK.
04:53 Here's one that I wrote around the time of an exhibition
04:57 that I made in Tbilisi.
04:58 Falling inverse, heads in perforated,
05:04 ongoing nothings, skewers in shapes, treading on bone.
05:09 So disease and longing, keeping things in shape
05:12 by keeping down lines, putting them down at points
05:15 and touching the birds, sat onto dusky hill.
05:19 New relationships, those you implore, a swan song for two.
05:24 What gets consumed and why that hurt my teeth,
05:26 not so sweet and tangy in the scenes.
05:28 It's a standup, do as well to decry itself
05:32 in the face of others.
05:33 Detangled architecture, how it goes away to die on its own
05:37 and what one can recreate honestly.
05:39 How a moment and a story, when you justify movement,
05:43 you come to yourself again.
05:44 Aspect ratio off and fucking, it's decrying,
05:47 face in words while accumulating what is left to track.
05:51 We would wish for more, would we not skewered,
05:53 floundering on the surfaces of unretouched landscapes,
05:56 having to give cons to us, not so enticing.
06:00 Why can't we have what we want?
06:02 When you meet people, you have to give it up for them,
06:04 a centerpiece in the way we relate.
06:06 Maybe it's not OK.
06:08 I'm using the sun's rays and blocking them
06:10 with your cellophane.
06:11 Who gets charged with anything?
06:13 Facilitating exchanges in a facility,
06:16 circumscribed threads, a disaster in the way disasters
06:19 go.
06:19 One to one ruins were found and left behind you,
06:23 didn't know where to go but to find them behind you,
06:25 under you, excess in spots marking.
06:28 No use in taking up the spots before the motif,
06:31 so ephemeral as to make a case for themselves.
06:34 What we learned in forgiving and elongating promises to you
06:37 and me, informed by our material, love shared is not
06:40 loss, is not equanimity.
06:43 I feel only the end, not so much in its encroaching,
06:46 but in what it does.
06:48 Makes forget once known truths, defenses, and burials
06:52 so specific as to breathe life in you.
06:54 This oxygen has no space.
06:56 This way of living is killing me and my other motives.
06:59 This window would not be into my own space,
07:01 but inhabited, unrecorded, engaging with that,
07:04 so not there as to be theirs.
07:07 This work was finished before we met.
07:08 Maybe more so would be again.
07:12 (audience cheering)
07:15 And I would need like one more from around the time
07:23 of that exhibition that I put together in Latche.
07:27 Okay.
07:28 Ever feel different, had a change of heart,
07:47 take the book down my ravine, I wish you were predictable.
07:50 Back to plucking, ephemeral shudders,
07:53 conversation with skin too deep,
07:55 and I think I cut my ring finger.
07:57 I feel fucked up in the head, mostly at most,
08:00 a resource for discard.
08:02 Found this point of intangibility, sun and icarus,
08:05 ever again, one in my same pool.
08:07 Take your chances, destroy somebody please.
08:10 The more I fuck with the art world, my pool stays dirty.
08:13 I can see everyone in it,
08:15 especially my high school, 10 crush.
08:17 That one relationship I'll never forget,
08:19 getting my hand stuck in the cringles can.
08:21 Can you ever not?
08:22 I'll never stop missing school.
08:25 Your necrosis is suddenly tucking me back.
08:28 I'm back on the train, I would write daily schedule.
08:31 I committed so much, I should have been committed.
08:33 Thinking about essentialism, absolutes,
08:38 truths and the lie, I'm learning a definition.
08:40 Too close to my septum, do much damage,
08:43 control predatory behavior,
08:45 income neoliberal social media practitioners
08:48 of everybody's access to everybody.
08:51 People used to store power and secrets,
08:53 collective knowledge and restraint.
08:55 I rate into submission folds, metal porpoise.
08:59 Your purpose is verbose, scintillating at best,
09:02 feeling you in and out judgment day,
09:05 scary when not, wish I could mediate.
09:07 I love you today and tomorrow.
09:10 I love you and you smell so good.
09:12 I love you and you should wake up and hear a bird.
09:14 You are loving carnival, we let you down.
09:16 Not before I, I wanna say, I wish I was your dog
09:19 and could bite the world when you hurt.
09:22 Well, that was that.
09:23 (audience applauding)
09:26 - Thank you, thank you.
09:30 Thank you.
09:32 Thank you so much for the great discussion.
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