Favorite things to curate

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so my favorite things to curate i think

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it’s hard to think about things in

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curating because for me it’s really

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about ideas

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and um

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i’d say some of the things that really

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make design interesting are um how

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design can inform where are we headed

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what does this mean

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for individuals of many different types

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and uh

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what kinds of impact can it have so it’s

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it’s probably more ideas than things

What inspired you to become a curator

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so

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i i’m not sure that i’ll have the most

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fulsome answer for this question because

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i didn’t set out to become a curator um

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but what i would say is uh to be open

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and curious i think that’s something

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that led me into this field was just

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kind of wanting to know more wanting to

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discover wanting to understand

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why something relates to something else

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and and how does it influence the way we

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behave in the way we think so

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that’s kind of how i walked into this uh

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as

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an activity or as a profession

What is your curators playlist

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um on my curator’s playlist there’s nina

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simone lori anderson and in particular

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landfill which is um a

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album done with the kronos quartet

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um i really love the liberation music

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orchestra song for the whales

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and then there’s a podcast by comrade

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black and tricia rose

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and then some basics that i always go to

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are kind of like morton feldman

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rothko chapel which is one of my

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favorite albums of his and then there’s

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a remix of steve reich by howie b that’s

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on my playlist

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and i could go on there’s a lot but

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those are kind of some samples

What are your favorite things about being a curator

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there’s so much it’s it’s a wonderful

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opportunity to meet all kinds of people

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and to really explore things that you

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hadn’t thought about before so i really

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love

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reaching out with kind of a question and

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wanting to learn more and it turns into

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something that

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becomes a dialogue and then eventually

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becomes something that is part of an

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exhibition um so just that ability to

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find connections between ideas and

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people and

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also being able to challenge the

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assumptions that i have and to say and

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to realize that there’s something else

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there’s a different perspective out

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there so

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those are some of my favorite things

What are your favorite artists

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louise bourgeois is definitely up there

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for me as one of my favorite artists

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i’ve admired her

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strength and

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what she brought to her art in a very

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strong way for a long time

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i love alfredo yar’s perspective

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on um

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observation in particular and what he

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sees and how he’s able to respond to

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what he sees

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and douglas cardinal is a wonderful

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architect i have to bring an architect

Whats your favorite architect

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i’ve been thinking about this and um

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you know i think one of the challenges

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with design is that um it’s all about

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how we frame the question and so i was

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thinking um earlier today about you know

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like robert robert oppenheimer who

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created the atomic bomb that was created

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around constraints of a particular thing

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but it became disastrous as an outcome

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um carl benz who got his first patent uh

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for the fuel powered automobile and

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where that’s led to the types of cities

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that we design and all kinds of

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activities related to

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the culture that we live in in cities

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and so sometimes it’s about the

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questions that we don’t ask um you know

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if carl bentz had thought about climate

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change would he have created the same

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object um

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so i kind of landed on this thought of

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how do we explain humanity to aliens

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um

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maybe it’s an exchange and maybe it is

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a vessel something that holds something

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that human gives to someone else and

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that could be food that could be water

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that could be ideas but it’s it’s an

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empty vessel that is passed

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from generation to generation but also

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maybe just

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from friend to stranger

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so that’s the best i could come up with

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