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JD: I started my adult life writing poetry and not making art. It was years before I started making art. I started trying to figure out what english was doing and what human language was doing, because language says that it´s not doing anything, just talking and it also says that we cannot think without it. And when something tells me that you can't do this without it, I start resisting right away. I'm famous with Maria Thereza. She says don't move, I start moving. You can' t do this, I start doing it. It's automatic, I did it as a child, it drove my mother crazy. Language tells us that we have no way of thinking without language, that we have to think in whatever languages were given. And I know it's not true because, well, I just know it and I think that many artists know it. Musicians certainly know it. Quite a few mathematicians know that there are no human languages that will describe mathematics, that it takes mathematics to try to describe language, even that doesn't work. And then I have this English language which must be the silliest language in the world. It's a really crazy, crazy language that makes the craziest bunch of things all the time. It's an absolutely insane language that pretends to be just language like “I'm just talking”. So, I started thinking about language early in English and I got into the habit of it. And a word comes along. Some silly word because English has so many silly words that you think: “Oh, that could be a word”. And there it is, pretending to be a normal word. And then it reminds you another word. And that word reminds you another word. And when we say that things remind us of things. We're not pure. We have all of our experience behind us. We have our politics behind us, we have our knowledge, everything is part of it, not behind, but part of things. If this word reminds me of another word and the act of reminding... There is a lot of stuff going on in my brain! Between these two words, the connections that are started with these two words. I say, and I think it's true, that poems happen, that I don't write them, they happen and I record them. But at the same time I know that nobody else would record them! So it has to be some sort of me recording them. But it's not an isolated
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aislado. Para mí es imposible imaginar lo que significa estar aislado. Si no eres social, sencillamente no estás, no eres. No hay manera de que seamos si somos ermitaños. ¡Si estamos siendo socialmente herméticos, entonces también estamos siendo herméticos para con nosotros mismos! Siempre uno es social, de esta forma o la otra. Estaba hablando con una amiga de Nueva York hace unos días. Ella explicaba cómo es que el traje de hombre de negocios es tomado tan en serio hoy en día. Yo me pregunté acerca de cómo es que el negocio de la moda puede ser tomado tan en serio hoy en día. Ya no nos deleitamos al ver moda, sino que la tomamos como realidad, en lugar de tomarla como lo que es: la escenificación y el juego humanos. Siempre estamos en uniforme. Si te pones un traje formal, te estás poniendo el uniforme de un hombre de negocios. Somos animales de modas. No existe para nosotros ninguna forma de estar desvestidos. Vestirnos es lo que nos caracteriza como seres humanos. Y siempre es un acto social. Todo lo que hacemos es un acto social. Cuando leemos, estamos leyendo socialmente. Tú no lees solamente para entretenerte solo. Lo haces, pero siempre eres tú socialmente el que lee socialmente. No eres tú a solas leyendo tu propio libro, una y otra vez. Todo me parece tan simple que sólo veo el deber de ser social todo el tiempo. De esa forma soy. De otro modo no soy… No soy.
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