Artist Alex Da Corte Transforms Into Characters
Clip: Season 11 Episode 1 | 1m 40sVideo has Closed Captions
Artist Alex Da Corte working with his team in Philadelphia, PA.
Artist Alex Da Corte is in his studio in Philadelphia, PA, transforming into characters for a video shoot with the help of his team. In Da Corte's video artworks, he performs while dressed as a wide variety of cultural icons. By spending time with these characters, he hopes to make his mind freer than it is and give depth to icons that are often rendered as flat symbols.
Artist Alex Da Corte Transforms Into Characters
Clip: Season 11 Episode 1 | 1m 40sVideo has Closed Captions
Artist Alex Da Corte is in his studio in Philadelphia, PA, transforming into characters for a video shoot with the help of his team. In Da Corte's video artworks, he performs while dressed as a wide variety of cultural icons. By spending time with these characters, he hopes to make his mind freer than it is and give depth to icons that are often rendered as flat symbols.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship♪♪ [man] Okay, ready to roll?
[woman] You can stand up straight, Alex.
[Alex] Yeah, is it okay?
- [woman] Yeah.
- [woman] Yeah, that's fine.
- [woman] We could reach you.
- [woman] We can reach.
[Alex] Okay.
[woman] It was just for the top of your head I needed... [Alex] Okay.
♪curious jazzy music♪ [Alex VO] These characters or images or objects exist within a world of dreams.
♪curious electronic music♪ I just want to have my mind be freer than it is and that doesn't come easy to me, so to spend time with these characters in this devotional research-based way is to say, "I don't know if I'll ever change, but I try to, at least."
There is distance between myself and the people in the past who have influenced me.
If I think of some kind of icon as a flat symbol, how do I give it depth?
I want that, I think, of the people I admire or the people that confuse me.
I want depth.
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