Dread Scott: How art can shape America's conversation about freedom
Dread Scott: Hogyan formálhatja a művészet Amerika párbeszédét a szabadságról?
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to propel history forward.
hogy előre vigyem a történelmet.
and tell you something:
leszögeznék Amerikáról:
változtatáshoz járul hozzá,
big questions from that perspective.
hogy fontos kérdéseket tegyen fel.
but ideas matter tremendously.
de az ötletek hihetetlenül fontosak.
most people think, "Oh, he's a painter."
az emberek azt hiszik, festek.
some of the kind of work I do.
néhányat a munkáim közül.
nélküli világot” ugyan festmény,
Without America" is a painting,
video and performance art.
és a performansz művészetet.
"Slave Rebellion Reenactment,"
a „Rabszolgafelkelés újrajátszvá”-t
on the outskirts of New Orleans
the center of controversy
vita középpontjává vált
of the American flag.
használatát illetően.
to Display a US Flag?"
megfelelően az USA zászlaját?”
audience participation.
buzdította a közönséget.
that had text that read,
egy fotómontázs, amin ez állt:
to Display a US Flag?"
megfelelően az USA zászlaját?”.
could write responses to that question in,
beírhatta a válaszait,
that people had the option of standing on.
amelyre ráállhattak az emberek.
of images of South Korean students
dél-koreai diákokat ábrázol,
Rohadékok!” feliratú táblákkal,
"Yankee go home. Son of a bitch,"
coming back from Vietnam.
zászlóval borított koporsók láthatóak.
in a lot of different languages.
kapcsolatban más-más nyelven.
a zászlónkat, mint ahogyan ti,
our flag as you all do,
trouble about this flag."
ha visszamenne oda, ahonnan jött,
should be returned to his heritage,
in his artistic way."
lapátolhatja a trágyát.”
everything oppressive in this system:
a rendszer zsarnokságát szimbolizálja:
and all the oppressed around the world,
és a világon élő összes elnyomottat,
who was shot by a pig,
meggyőződjön: «a nigger halott».
to 'make sure the nigger was dead.'
for this opportunity."
defend your stupid ass!
– US Navy SEAL-csapat.
very strong reactions about the flag then,
reakciót váltott ki akkor a zászló,
in front of the Art Institute of Chicago.
a Chicagói Művészeti Intézet előtt.
hang them both high,"
were phoned in to my school.
bombatámadással fenyegették.
nevezte a művemet,
the work "disgraceful,"
megtiszteltetés volt,
törvényen kívül helyezte.
when I and others defied that law,
mikor megtámadtuk ezt a törvényt,
on the steps of the Capitol.
a kongresszus székháza előtt,
legal and political battle
jogi és politikai harc vezetett
that prevented the government
mely megakadályozta a kormányt abban,
patriotism be mandatory.
a halálomat akarták.
would make a difference.
where the veterans were at that time.
nem lettem volna ott biztonságban.
for me to be there, to say the least.
to do that shoot,
meg akartak ölni, addig azok,
it was also a situation
as standing for everything oppressive
zsarnoki tettének szimbólumára,
about US national symbols,
kapcsolatos, nagy port kavaró elképzelés,
próbára tett hagyományos gondolkodásmód
by scientific breakthroughs
might not have worked out so well.
nem sikerült annyira jól.
led to a wonderful,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Dread Scott - Visual artistDread Scott makes revolutionary art to propel history forward.
Why you should listen
Dread Scott's work is exhibited across the US and internationally. In 1989, his art became the center of national controversy over its transgressive use of the American flag, while he was a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. President G.H.W. Bush called his art "disgraceful," and the entire US Senate denounced and outlawed this work. Scott became part of a landmark Supreme Court case when he and others defied the new law by burning flags on the steps of the US Capitol. His studio is now based in Brooklyn.
Scott's work has been included in exhibitions at New York's MoMA PS1, the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis and Gallery MOMO in Cape Town, South Africa. His performance work has been presented at BAM in Brooklyn and on the streets of Harlem, NY. His work is in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Brooklyn Museum, and it has been featured on the cover of Artforum magazine and the front page of NYTimes.com. Scott is a recipient of a 2018 United States Artists Fellowship and grants from the Creative Capital Foundation and the Open Society Institute. He works in a range of media, from performance and photography to screen-printing and video.
Scott plays with fire -- metaphorically and sometimes literally -- as when he burned $171 on Wall Street and encouraged those with money to add theirs to the pyre. His work asks viewers to look soberly at America's past and our present. Writing about a recent banner project, Angelica Rogers wrote in the New York Times: "...it was difficult to look away from the flag's blocky, capitalized type. 'A Man Was Lynched by Police Yesterday.' It shouted the words so matter-of-factly that I felt myself physically flinch."
Scott is currently working on Slave Rebellion Reenactment, a community engaged performance that will reenact the largest rebellion of enslaved people in American History.
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