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Martine Syms Quotes

American - Artist | 1988 -

I grew up in Altadena, California.

California Up Grew

I was very conscious of the film industry - a lot of people, neighbors, worked in it. I actually grew up doing a bit of extra work myself. I was homeschooled, and it was a way that I could make money. My parents let us do these jobs, and I never got very far, but I was much more interested in what everybody else was doing, and I liked being on set.

Work Myself Money Parents People

I'm so voracious with books, movies, TV, and I'm always interested in the way that different cultural values are presented or, in their absence, are present.

Present Values Movies Way Always TV

A lot of my work, the subject is film and television itself, and history, and how that kind of coincides with larger cultural history and memory.

Work History Memory Television Kind

I think the sitcom is the format for television. It's the essential form, and it represents more of the canon of TV, which is why I latched onto it.

Think Television Why More I Think

I grew up in Los Angeles. I watched lots of television; I still watch lots of television.

Television Los Angeles Up Watch Lots

I've always been interested in the manufacturing of narratives, identities, and ideologies, and how they are embodied and negotiated by viewers.

Manufacturing Always Been Interested

There's an uncanniness to living in Los Angeles, from the way you move through the city to the moments of feeling familiarity or deja vu, like you've been somewhere or you know something when you really don't.

City Moments You Know Living Way

I didn't really grow up with any traditions. I grew up in a pretty liberal household in Southern California. I think that's part of my interest in thinking about heritage. I don't have a second language or cultural heritage in that way.

Think Thinking Language Grow Way Up

Pipilotti Rist is a Swiss video artist I learned about pretty early on. She's one of the first contemporary artists I knew about and was really drawn to.

Artist Early She First Pretty Knew

I think the medium or format of distributing things has its own characteristics. I think that an exhibition can communicate certain things that a video can't, and publications communicate that in a different way.

Think Way Own Things Different

I think I do more fiction than autobiography.

Think More Fiction Autobiography

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