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00:00You know, I go to a museum, I can get lightheaded,
00:02and I start getting irritated and want to break stuff.
00:04You know, so I figured, well, you know, I'm not really cut out for the art business.
00:06So that's why I had to sort of take off on my own path.
00:10We didn't have plans to build it. I wanted it to grow organically like nature does.
00:13It sort of just grows wherever space allows.
00:15Nothing stops, and you just keep moving.
00:18I'm not sure what I'm going to do tomorrow.
00:19It was just whatever happens to be going on that day.
00:21And so therefore, I think we get a lot of that spontaneity
00:23by not having a five-year plan or master plans or even blueprints.
00:28Everywhere I ended up, there I was. It was me.
00:30So I figured out early on I needed to want what nobody else wanted
00:33and live what nobody else wanted to live, and then I could be free.
00:36What you want to do is kind of like be the idiot spot around the place, you know?
00:39So I developed a split personality that allows me to get around, you know,
00:42the endless obstacles it takes to do something like this.
00:46If you go down to the root of the museum, it means dwelling place of the Muses.
00:49We call it a city because it's in the city, and it's completely generic,
00:52which means I don't have to pin myself down.
00:55I want to build a world there that doesn't exist anymore, you know,
00:58just in this place to do whatever we want.
01:02We do the things that other people won't do. We teach irony.
01:04We teach duality, and we let other people figure it out,
01:07and we refuse to explain ourselves.
01:24© transcript Emily Beynon