Dread Scott: How art can shape America's conversation about freedom
德萊得史考特: 藝術能如何形塑美國關於自由的對談
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to propel history forward.
來將歷史向前推進。
and tell you something:
big questions from that perspective.
來處理重大問題。
but ideas matter tremendously.
但想法是非常重要的。
most people think, "Oh, he's a painter."
會想：「喔，他是個畫家。」
就是我的作品之一。
some of the kind of work I do.
Without America" is a painting,
video and performance art.
"Slave Rebellion Reenactment,"
「重演奴隸反叛」，
on the outskirts of New Orleans
the center of controversy
成了爭議的焦點，
of the American flag.
美國國旗的使用太逾越。
to Display a US Flag?"
audience participation.
旨在鼓勵觀眾參與。
that had text that read,
上面的文字寫著：
to Display a US Flag?"
could write responses to that question in,
大家可以選擇要不要站在上面。
that people had the option of standing on.
of images of South Korean students
"Yankee go home. Son of a bitch,"
「老美滾回家。狗娘養的。」
coming back from Vietnam.
從越南送回來的。
in a lot of different languages.
使用的語言非常多種。
our flag as you all do,
像你們這麼愛慕國旗，
trouble about this flag."
國旗的麻煩。」
should be returned to his heritage,
被送回他的所屬的地方，
in his artistic way."
藝術方式來鏟糞肥。」
everything oppressive in this system:
這個體制中所有的壓迫：
and all the oppressed around the world,
所有被迫害的人，
who was shot by a pig,
to 'make sure the nigger was dead.'
確保這黑鬼真的死了。
for this opportunity."
德萊得史考特。」
defend your stupid ass!
美國海豹突擊隊。
very strong reactions about the flag then,
大家對於國旗的感受
in front of the Art Institute of Chicago.
有退伍軍人示威抗議。
hang them both high,"
were phoned in to my school.
the work "disgraceful,"
那件作品「很丟臉」，
when I and others defied that law,
我和其他人公然對抗那法律的方式
on the steps of the Capitol.
legal and political battle
that prevented the government
patriotism be mandatory.
would make a difference.
where the veterans were at that time.
或甚至更糟。
for me to be there, to say the least.
to do that shoot,
it was also a situation
as standing for everything oppressive
about US national symbols,
國家象徵的常見想法、
by scientific breakthroughs
might not have worked out so well.
本來未必有那麼好的效果。
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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