Dread Scott: How art can shape America's conversation about freedom
دیرد سكۆت: هونهر چۆن دهتوانێت ببێته هۆی دروستبوونی گفتوگۆی ئهمهریكا سهبارهت به ئازادی
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to propel history forward.
.بۆ بەرەوپێشبردنی مێژوو
and tell you something:
بەڕێوە دەبات، ناکەم.
بۆگۆرانێکی گهوههرییه
big questions from that perspective.
.به پرسیاركردن لەوبارەیەوە
.بەڵام بیرۆكهكان زۆر گرنگه
but ideas matter tremendously.
".خەڵکی دهڵێن، "ئۆ، وێنەکێشە
most people think, "Oh, he's a painter."
some of the kind of work I do.
،تابلۆیەکە
Without America" is a painting,
video and performance art.
.و ڤیدیۆ و ئهكتهری
"Slave Rebellion Reenactment,"
"،دووباره یاخیبوونەوەی كۆیلایهتی"
on the outskirts of New Orleans
ناوچهكانی نیو و لینز
the center of controversy
کە بووە هۆی ناڕەزایی
of the American flag.
.لهشێوهی شهرهنگێز
"ئاڵای ئهمهریكا؟
to Display a US Flag?"
audience participation.
.بەژداری بکەن
that had text that read,
،کە لهژێری نوسراوه
to Display a US Flag?"
"بۆ نیشاندانی ئاڵای ئەمەریکا؟
،دەتوانرا وهڵامی تێدا بنوسرێت
could write responses to that question in,
that people had the option of standing on.
.بەخواستی خۆی لە سەری دەوەستا
of images of South Korean students
لە قوتابییهكانی کۆریای باشور
"،بگهرێوه بۆ خاكی خۆت، دایک قەحبە "
"Yankee go home. Son of a bitch,"
coming back from Vietnam.
.کە لە ڤێتنام دەگەرانەوە
in a lot of different languages.
.بە زمانی جۆراوجۆر و جیاواز
our flag as you all do,
،ئاڵاكهمان بین وهك ئێوه
trouble about this flag."
".ڕوبهروی کێشەی زۆر دهبن
،بگەرێتەوە سهر كلتورهكهی
should be returned to his heritage,
in his artistic way."
".بهشێوهی هونهری دهگۆرێت
:سیستهمێکی چەوسێنەرە
everything oppressive in this system:
،چهوساوانهی لە جیھاندا هەن
and all the oppressed around the world,
who was shot by a pig,
،پۆلیسێكی بەراز كوشتی
".تا دڵنیا بێتەوە برا ڕەشپێستەکەم مردوە"
to 'make sure the nigger was dead.'
for this opportunity."
".بۆ ئەم دەرفەتە
،بەرگری لە ئاڵا
defend your stupid ass!
ئەی حیز."
تیمی سیڵی دەریای ئەمەریکی
very strong reactions about the flag then,
،بەھێزیان ھەیە دەربارەی ئەو ئاڵایە
.بۆبهردهم پهیمانگای هونهری له شیكاگۆ
in front of the Art Institute of Chicago.
hang them both high,"
بۆ قوتابخانەکەم.
were phoned in to my school.
the work "disgraceful,"
"،شەرمەزاری"
،بووم به پێشێلكاری یاسا
when I and others defied that law,
.بههۆی لۆمه كردنی كۆنگرس
on the steps of the Capitol.
legal and political battle
سیاسیە یەکە دوا یەکەکان و شەڕی دۆسیه
that prevented the government
له دهستور بۆ رێگه كرتن له دادگا
patriotism be mandatory.
would make a difference.
چی لە باسەکە دەگۆڕێت.
بۆ وێنەگرتنێك بێت
where the veterans were at that time.
.سهربازهكان بكات لهم كاتهدا
.لهمهش زیاتر دهوترا
for me to be there, to say the least.
،كه زۆر گرینگبوو
to do that shoot,
لەم کاتەدا
it was also a situation
سونبولێك بۆ ستهمكار
as standing for everything oppressive
about US national symbols,
،سیمبولی نێودەوڵەتی ئەمەریکا
by scientific breakthroughs
بۆ بیركردنهوهی دووباره
might not have worked out so well.
.ڕەنگە کاری خۆی نەکردبێت بەباشی
.كه خرانه پێشمان
،بۆشتێكی نایاب
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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