Dread Scott: How art can shape America's conversation about freedom
Dread Scott: Sanat, Amerika'nın özgürlüğe bakış açısını nasıl şekillendirebilir?
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to propel history forward.
devrimsel sanat yapıyorum.
and tell you something:
kabul etmiyorum.
big questions from that perspective.
köklü değişimlere katkıda bulunur.
but ideas matter tremendously.
ama fikirler son derece önemli.
most people think, "Oh, he's a painter."
"Ah, o bir ressam." der.
some of the kind of work I do.
bazı örnekler görebilirsiniz.
Without America" is a painting,
bir tablodur.
kapsayan çalışmalar yapıyorum;
video and performance art.
sanatları buna dâhil.
"Slave Rebellion Reenactment,"
"Köle Ayaklanmasının Yeniden Sahnelenişi"
on the outskirts of New Orleans
yeniden sahnelenecek.
the center of controversy
sanat çalışmam oldu.
of the American flag.
kullanılması konusunda.
to Display a US Flag?"
Sergilemenin Uygun Yolu Nedir?"
audience participation.
kavramsal bir çalışmadır.
that had text that read,
to Display a US Flag?"
Uygun Yolu Nedir?" yazıldı.
could write responses to that question in,
yanıtlarını yazabileceği defterler vardı.
that people had the option of standing on.
üzerine basabilecekleri bir bayrak vardı.
of images of South Korean students
"Yankee go home. Son of a bitch,"
yazılı pankart ve dövizler taşıdıkları
coming back from Vietnam.
bayraklarla sarılmış tabutları içeriyordu.
in a lot of different languages.
bu çalışmaya katıldı.
our flag as you all do,
sizin kadar hayran olsaydık
trouble about this flag."
çok fazla sıkıntınız var."
should be returned to his heritage,
in his artistic way."
sanatıyla kürekleyebilir."
everything oppressive in this system:
baskıcı olan her şeyi temsil ediyor:
and all the oppressed around the world,
her yerindeki mazlumlar,
who was shot by a pig,
emin olmak için defalarca tekmeleyen
to 'make sure the nigger was dead.'
vurulmuş olan ağabeyim de dâhil."
bu bayrak vardı.
for this opportunity."
bu fırsatı sağladığın için.''
bayrağı savunmak mı
defend your stupid ass!
sizin aptal kıçınızı savunmam!
Birleşik Devletler Donanması.
bayrak hakkında çok güçlü tepkilere sahip
very strong reactions about the flag then,
in front of the Art Institute of Chicago.
savaş gazileri gösteriler düzenledi.
hang them both high,"
ikisini de yukarıya asın,"
were phoned in to my school.
bomba tehditleri savuruyorlardı.
"utanç verici" olduğunu söyledi,
the work "disgraceful,"
when I and others defied that law,
bayrakları yakarak
on the steps of the Capitol.
Yüksek Mahkeme davasının içinde buldum.
legal and political battle
yasal ve politik savaş,
that prevented the government
zorunlu kılmasının önüne geçen
patriotism be mandatory.
yol açtı.
benim ölmemi istiyordu.
would make a difference.
fark yaratacaktı.
tam da o anda
göstericilerin durduğu basamaklarda
where the veterans were at that time.
for me to be there, to say the least.
en azından bunu söyleyebilirim.
to do that shoot,
gerçekten de çok önemliydi,
it was also a situation
olsa da bu diğer taraftan
as standing for everything oppressive
her şeyi temsil ettiğini düşünenlerin
hissettikleri bir durumdu.
about US national symbols,
sembolleriyle ilgili geleneksel fikirler
by scientific breakthroughs
bilimsel buluşlarla meydan okumak
devirmek -- olsun
might not have worked out so well.
bu kadar iyi sonuçlanmayabilirdi.
çok önemliydi.
led to a wonderful,
şaşırtıcı,
bir duruma yol açtı.
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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