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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.00,0:00:02.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:02.30,0:00:06.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I arrived by truck with about 50 rebels
Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.08,0:00:07.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the battle for Jalalabad
Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.43,0:00:11.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a 19-year-old vegetarian surfer from Jacksonville, Florida.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.69,0:00:12.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.87,0:00:15.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I traded my Converse black low-tops
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.48,0:00:17.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for a pair of brown leather sandals
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.40,0:00:19.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and launched a rocket towards government tanks
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.85,0:00:21.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I couldn't even see.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.51,0:00:25.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this was my first time in Afghanistan.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.12,0:00:27.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Long before that I had grown up with the war,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.52,0:00:31.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but alongside weekend sleepovers and Saturday soccer games
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.06,0:00:34.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and fistfights with racist children of the Confederacy
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.69,0:00:36.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and religio-nationalist demonstrations
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.88,0:00:40.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,chanting, "Down with communism and long live Afghanistan,"
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.10,0:00:44.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and burning effigies of Brezhnev before I even knew what it meant.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.89,0:00:47.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But this is the geography of self.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.08,0:00:49.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so I stand here today,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.81,0:00:53.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Afghan by blood, redneck by the grace of God,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.20,0:00:54.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.45,0:00:57.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an atheist and a radically politicized artist
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.61,0:01:00.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who's been living, working and creating in Afghanistan
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.26,0:01:02.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the last nine years.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.15,0:01:05.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now there are a lot of wonderful things that you could
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.09,0:01:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,make art about in Afghanistan,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.00,0:01:09.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but personally I don't want to paint rainbows;
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.91,0:01:12.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to make art that disturbs identity
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.78,0:01:14.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and challenges authority
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.81,0:01:16.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and exposes hypocrisy
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.43,0:01:18.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and reinterprets reality
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.28,0:01:20.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and even uses kind of an imaginative ethnography
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.96,0:01:25.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to try and understand the world that we live in.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.69,0:01:30.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to spend a day in the life of a jihadi gangster
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.14,0:01:33.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who wears his jihad against the communists
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.34,0:01:34.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like popstar bling
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.88,0:01:38.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and uses armed religious intimidation and political corruption
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.86,0:01:40.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to make himself rich.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.86,0:01:46.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.86,0:01:53.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And where else can the jihadi gangster go, but run for parliament
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.22,0:01:54.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and do a public installation campaign
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.100,0:01:58.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the slogan: "Vote for me! I've done jihad, and I'm rich."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.22,0:01:59.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.49,0:02:02.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And try and use this campaign to expose these mafiosos
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.90,0:02:07.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who are masquerading as national heroes.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.51,0:02:10.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to look into corruption in Afghanistan
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.99,0:02:13.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through a work called "Payback"
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.48,0:02:15.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and impersonate a police officer,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.42,0:02:19.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,set up a fake checkpoint on the street of Kabul and stop cars,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.62,0:02:23.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but instead of asking them for a bribe, offering them money
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.36,0:02:26.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and apologizing on behalf of the Kabul Police Department --
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.34,0:02:32.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.93,0:02:41.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and hoping that they'll accept this 100 Afghanis on our behalf.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.09,0:02:46.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to look at how, in my opinion,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.28,0:02:49.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the conflict in Afghanistan has become conflict chic.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.96,0:02:52.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The war and the expatriate life that comes with it
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.21,0:02:56.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have created this environment of style and fashion
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.61,0:02:58.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that can only be described
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.98,0:03:02.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through creating a fashion line for soldiers and suicide bombers
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.40,0:03:07.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where I take local Afghan fox fur and add it to a flack jacket
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.28,0:03:09.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or make multiple interior pockets
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.57,0:03:14.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on fashionable neo-traditional vests.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.69,0:03:20.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I'd like to look at how taking a simple Kabul wheelbarrow
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.37,0:03:24.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and putting it on the wall amidst Kipling's call of 1899
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.36,0:03:30.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to generate dialogue about how I see contemporary development initiatives
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.05,0:03:32.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,being rooted in yesterday's colonial rhetoric
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.90,0:03:34.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about a "white man's burden"
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.44,0:03:37.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to save the brown man from himself
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.24,0:03:41.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and maybe even civilize him a bit.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.69,0:03:45.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But doing these things, they can get you in jail,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.13,0:03:49.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they can be misunderstood, misinterpreted.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.17,0:03:51.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I do them because I have to,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.03,0:03:53.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because the geography of self mandates it.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.70,0:03:57.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is my burden. What's yours?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.61,0:03:59.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.29,0:04:06.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)