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all the greatest work of all shifting time. that's in a huge city. you kind of get this sense of how the world around you behave in a way you cannot see with the naked eye. you can feel the has on the back of your neck standing up when you reach the top of that building and get that great view. metropolis on now to sierra ah, i cannot easily accept sums. it is not political because really means society. i need choice of being not political as, as political choice. my name is iowa away. i'm mom, artist, and activist. i'm rider. i'm documentary maker. but her, i'm human being the poetic act has such power to draw. you millions of people to certain kind of conclusions about the stay to be that we occupied. i'm

any sca poor, i'm an artist. my art isn't overtly political in any obvious way. i'm much more interested in isa, correct, poetic or whatever else all that difficult stuff. okay, well i want to start by reading a small passage from charlie chaplin. the great comedian is a great performer, performer in his film. ah, the great dictator from 1940 he gives this big speech and i'm just going to read a little passage from it. greed, he says, has poisoned men's. souls has barricaded the world with hate. has goose

stepped us into misery and bloodshed. we have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in technology. i changed the word, it was machinery, technology that gives us abundance has left us wanting. our knowledge has made us cynical. our cleverness is hard and unkind. we think too much and feel too little. more than technology, we need humanity, more than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. it is the most beautiful, beautiful speech clear short and very poignant and an indescribable. or tara titian? perfectly perfectly are. we think we are so technically advanced by sinclair, so smart of a sickly up very well educated,

but we don't know what to be missed and the rest. so it seems to me that there are 2 fundamental things missing wisdom. we live in a world almost without wisdom, and the other is compassion. wisdom come from not just the, the library or a box, but or rather from are using your hands, the hands of teachers here, heart and they are your mind. and so it won't let so you will as all day they don't use their hands in more, or they use hands for some other purpose. so eyes and cuz they have been gold too far from the so called the wisdom because wisdom is about how do you survive your soul and your body and the now we don't see really so why bit b e a hurried so much we are being given by the via nona, appreciate and of a taking we don't know to whom we, we are take him from. yes and her. i think this is the,

the from are the post colonial lism and also is it so kado conversation. it's a new form of law colonialism correct that a corrupt or a whole human condition. i like very much what you've just said about the hand traveling in so much of the world, perhaps specially in china. what we see is what i see is that people are being moved off to land and put into great, big skyscrapers. they lose the hand and it's contact with this wonderful earth. that is all that is the basis. so when you were talking about exile in the 1st part of the show here, you um, talked about being an outsider, but really you talked about losing your home. and one of the things perhaps we

could discuss is how important is this idea of home? well, i am a personal fool not perfectly pack up on the want his home because you venue man. nation one now was born. my father was eggs out, so i'm 2nd generation of exiled person and i were lost. something awfully quick to be think belongs to us. familiar, annoying when know if we close or i, we can still go back to lad safety corner safe in on because you have or familiar smile, horror, or a, you know, the corner, the little light in communist society in thus, and be louse to individual is not it is a material doesn't belong to individual. you don't have a private feeling. you don't have a memory. because also some memories has been changed in our history

book tells you really difference from a want to really happened. so the sense of a home are sole altered though it is it that also as artists we sit outside or is it that the search for home is something that that is a continuing poetic philosophical law. confusing problem. my mother's a jewish or was jewish. my father's india, so in india we were always the jewish boys, my brother and i. then we went to israel because that's what jewish kids do. go to israel, they said, ah, but your dock. so some, it was a darky, sorry, utterly confusing, utterly confusing. and britain was much better at this, but many of our audience i could see all over them from all over the world. many of us will suffer this question of being an outsider of what is home. where is how

key is home to the activity that we say we want to perform, which is reconnect. if you like, with our deep psychic in a world, i think her, you rest up are very serious question. as an artist, we are by nature, they are person who are lost. when we choose to be lost, we choose to be lost. so it's our choice. i like that he cause we choose to be lost . yeah, that burns back to the fundamental question. what have they belongs to originally? so now to me, i have to answer doesn't matter where you come from, what kind of religion or language or a habit with meters and then tim fi us ourself as a human being a same times, we struggle for identity. it, oh no artist na struggle for identity. so this to are so conflict cielo.

but in links, of course, also to the other thing, which is that i can only be an artist if i'm fragile. yes, i once i sat in the future may may be the most powerful as being fragile. yeah. because it, it's not, there's no crawl the powers of phrases is frank jonas, correct. my fragility is my humanity. it is my ability to identify it, is that part of me which can break down in tears and b, if you like, open or vulnerable, and yet we also carry this other side as artists of great bravado. i can you know, baker canon, lemme shoot him to the corner. oh, whatever. a variation on such a thing. meaning foolishness, stupidity, fragility,

and stupidity are quite close. sisters like this. and they are, it's a very interesting problem of dairy. so it's both fragile and daring and a hall to leave your life. that sort of question. how do some live formula, fragile it nurse, and also to be provocative. my in chinese facie doll them is the way. so the way has to be, leave us a one he why do you act? and the why do you think about the language has come to one that's most difficult may be in that part. you can be called an artist. that's very beautiful. there's one other really important subject, it links to all the things we've been talking about, that we educate our young people as slaves to

the capitalist economic machine. society is not interested in the individuality, the freedom, the spirit, the of the young person. what we want is automaton ins and walk society does not want is young people who feel who think, who are fragile, who are unable, who don't know. we'd say no, you go and stand on the corner. i don't want to see the dark side of you. we have taken all a dark parts of our environment, every dark valley, every dot chasm, and cut it down and turned it into a nice little if you like, forgive me, but a nice little christian place in which everything is good. everything is well, but actually it's the death i want your dog so i don't want your good self here. i

am. and that is the reversal if you like that turning education the other way up, if you like. i totally agree that education is the big problem because very designed as is system to kill as a young generation. i look on my song, i think all here has the doors is 20 years of education. if even now the more weight of the best time of your life. yeah. then you come to the road. you've cynthia, been trend, you just become a use for piece of it. are a machine or a tool correct to be efficient or tool tool have or so car the security? i think capitalism uses the connoisseur craig. he to spare everybody to see because he is doing that or you're safe under your even better position. and this is crazy because you don't act, you only think, you know,

the knowledge or you instantly has structure some kind of knowledge. but to you later, send coverage has become a doctor or, or a lawyer or a wall street treater or, you know, whatever the profession. i think that his biggest loss of humanity i've always said to my children, don't get a job. but i think we have a question from someone. my name is john packer, i'm a professor in law. you both raised the idea of language, arts and language. and of course has also been said that music or the arts in general are a universal language. but not necessarily as just codification of images and sounds. there's something else happening and i'm interested to know what you believe in your experience is happening universally through the arts and doesn't require to be universal. that everyone is an artist. an artist makes

a work if in the process of making the work, the artist has been able to remove enough of themselves and not getting away in other words and leave space for the viewer for you and me to come and watch and look. then you and me complete the work we make the works. and what that assumes, as you quite rightly say, is that there is a code that we share of color of sound. there are various languages that we share, almost in spite of ourselves. now is that true? is that not true? is it culturally specific or is it not? so for example, are in just off the top my head. is there an african for example,

notion of the sublime that i know nothing about. is it different if you like, from the classical western or whatever variation on such a thing? so, is it truly universal? you know, does the color red mean the same thing in london that it does in beijing? i doubt it. i think in brazier means i'm a completely different how we codified these things. it's complex, but i do believe the main question is, get the artist out of away meaning too much to say gets in the way in fact and makes the less good art the understand now value about her art. it's really oh, very much like taken our drug, hinton. it's a, it's not a natural on, you know, we, we appreciate sense. but as you said, the african people are pressured in, for instance, for mom,

the white people and i was away. they understand the moment, the sound, the light, the it's very different. i don't see any modern sculptor car rich, the same kind of language as african did is seen there. a blot in i'll be only come, provide the other experience which offers. they may not even sink off as high sink . hello, my name is penny, and i wanted to ask supervisor on the internet. our social media brady are being made and need that ever been for on it's ok. so a rain, what you thought about the surplus of production and consumption of out, and it does is antoinette or an opportunity for to base our test. creativity, certainly, ah, been denied to our tech technology mom provide us human society. some somebody

never experienced that before. and also we don't know how it would affect or, or understanding of value and or exchange of values and, or even just to own some saying, you know, and, but certainly because see mesa has been changed. so surveys use social media and off i phones, the film become, are in crisis. you know, they don't, most people very hard even to go to a theater, to look at the a film and you more because they are used to easily together cream formation in very short on time. and a big cannot have the same kind of patients to see the film i developing or less a story. but we, i, i mean, i take your point about film, you're absolutely right. film has but there are many arts that you have to

experience, you know, you can't, tom, just have music if you like, online in whatever form it is. um, it's especially with classical music. let say you have to be there and it's the same with painting. it's the same with sculpture. i'm babs, very old fashioned in this way of eating. wow. never be the same tongue to even just like a conversation with said to their their like, i am know in china, but if we were doing this online, it would be such a different conversation. wouldn't it could be a good faith. but as i know, how do they have to realize that's another reality? yes, we read all sorts of signs some each other gentle, subtle, little signs that tell us things that screams just cult. so i accept, it's a different reality of our different i, i'm genevine, i'm

a student in london. i have always felt the extraordinary arch macy more than just a consumer in masses. you completely and my question is, how do you make your audience more than just consumers? and i'm pushing is it for you is artists that people really experience and are fully masked in iraq? i've been for many, many years in zen practice and ins. then my teacher used to say to me all the time she would say, give yourself truly give yourself into what is being done at this moment right now. and something happens, you know, when you're truly involved in something, something happens to time. time go somewhere else, it becomes something else. it's as if it doesn't exist. so all job is artists is to be watch full beauty in other words is everywhere, right? that's right, that's right, that's right. that beauty is everywhere. all we gotta do is grab it right now,

way way would in fact, i think it's very hard to rational described from the, about the art practice because it is a mess. ology is why do you believe? and so what do you believe an artist can really he lou street or sense of time under, under place? i think that's a, that's a minimal effects of art makers of forget or make us are being conscious about some, some been never been conscious that moment as they forget it. oh, so it's a, it's an art a should be a dangerous sent to do, you know is not the is never safe. but of course 99 percent. art is not in the category i. my name's emily balance and that my question is that we should

pieces that you've made the think have had impacts and why or how i would say none for my work. i did that, which i'm a cited fine or i was and could create some kind of real impact and narrow kind of really think that can be called our work in most time. but the rather to have a life to grab some values i think is very important which to which doesn't really belong to me, but in to the, to every human being. and i think of those values, so ord protector or society, e e are more desirable way. yeah. you're being a bit unfair to yourself. you had one work which had a very particular perspective. the one where you took the

steel balls from the earthquake and you put them out and you spoke in that work without saying any words about an uncaring, unable state. tell us about that. is that true? and that is true that the works i knew mar, would me bizarre ours creek on, which are killed over $5335.00 students. yeah. so i asked as a simple question, who are they on the, what's their name by the inserting environment. this is our national secret. you cannot really asking those questions. so i made this so called the since is a my education. we made a very simple for his back life. now forget and this is very essential. but to make that effort, it is difficult and almost finished in my life because i had

a confrontational, ah moment face the police. ah, yes, if you name on to the work that is have some kind of language and form and peacefully actually is very of bowel and work. but i have this kind of contradiction about state violence and about how our memory being erased or, but also from a formal book point of view. it's something which i imagine and it's all about the imagination. all that steel was kind of mangled in like that and then you straighten it and you turn it into a kind of minimalist. m. perfect. com. seen, where is everything it saying is about the un. com about death. this contradictory, that's what makes it ought. of course, to take one situation,

twisted or straighten it. but i another situation i suddenly thought, and this is a very interesting problem, is it, 1st of all do for all and they all do and yourself as for art or, or school for artist. but the most difficulty is what is after, because so i did a film about the refugees. but her, as we all know, this problem become even much worse. there's silence people bad in the ocean and basically euro ping and not only european but as they want to reach europe, but the hero pin, they push them away, let them die. thought so. ah, yes, i made the film i made many works but but so what? and in all this moment those, those cases and the women still leave in the darkness. the most important sent about the artist, honesty. besides all the skills, you know,

because honesty relate to our own identity, but a lot is the most difficult. yes. agreed. totally agree. i mean though, i say, yeah, because as an artist i reserve the right to contradict myself to say this man that do both together without losing integrity, all honesty because if we become to wholly about ourselves too wrapped up in the idea that we have some great message for the world with the it's the end. while we must not have agreed mildly to the world. but we have to give ourselves a gift. law means may ride, can eyes ourself in the miro to say, hey, this is the me. so that the moment is very hard to establish, you know, to keep going with us. i think so continue. yes, thank you. anyway. thank you so much.

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