Ok, we just need one more thing from you,
and then we're done for the day.
Ok...
Can you do a VIP tour?
Just five minutes–
five minutes.
Ok.
It's great to be here at the Hammer.
Museum.
Thank you for having me.
It's called "Stories of Almost Everyone."
There are stories being told.
In these rooms.
That's a definite.
Almost everyone?
Mmm..I don't know about that.
I'd say 5 to 10 people.
The stories of 5 to 10 people,
that's what it should be called.
This is a work by Darren Bader.
It's a facsimile of a John McCracken.
McCracken was someone who's known for
projecting narratives into a kind of minimalist form.
In Darren's case, it's full of just kind of–junk.
So if we cracked it open–
There'd be stuff inside.
A piñata of sorts.
We know that there's something inside, but we don't necessarily know what's in it.
Uh, it's killing me, it's driving me crazy.
We all know what's inside.
Cocaine.
This is a work by Jason Dodge.
And there are works where pillows
that have only been slept on by acrobats.
Yeah.This is really good.
And just–like–hanging around circuses?
And said "Would you mind–"
"Sleeping on this purple pillow."
Yup. I'm sure some said "No, no way."
"No way, weirdo."
"That sounds crazy to me." And others were like, "I don't care."
We discussed it and I thought ok, alright.
I'm warming up to it
but ultimately, no.
How was install for this one?
This one, similarly, it was about a day.
Day!
Yeah.
This is a piece by Kasper Bosmans.
And then they're–they're laid on the ground in a certain–
It was more...
Way or haphazard?
Some of the pieces that seemed to be randomly placed
actually took hours if not days
to set up in a specific way.
So that is another interesting discussion as to whether
that is, uh,
time well-spent,
or not.
When the lights go off,
and there's no one here,
and there's a guard outside that door,
making sure no one gets in,
to move those socks...
It brings me a strange joy.
And I'm not kidding.
To install the telephone poles–it took 25 people–
to carry one telephone pole.
Up the stairs.
That's possibly an artist going,
"I got 25 people to carry telephone poles
up stairs...."
Which is poor planning on the Hammer Museum's...
When they built this museum they should've...
Thought of that ahead of time.
I gotta take off–
Intervention.
I'll see you guys later.
That was great fun.
Chew this cocoa leaf.
In the mines,
in order to stay awake...
After not being able to
export the cocoa leaf because
–Drugs are illegal?
Yeah, shipping drugs are illegal,
exactly...
I wanna....
Is it weird, I wanna eat it, I wanna take a bite of it.
Wait, a person stands there and strips?
Yeah.
And then does a reverse striptease.
Hubba hubba.
It's a 2 carat diamond ring,
produced from the ashes of the Mexican architect Luis Barragán.
It's a little baffling.
It's too much for you.
It's a little too much.

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This is the coolest thing I have ever seen.
Is this like one of those relaxation tools?
You know, like a white noise machine?
Cause it's so soothing.
Wow.
Ofttimes though it's more or less dormant.
You know.
It's kind of a sleeping piano–
But it won't–
Ah!…
Did you press–did you press the button
or flick the switch?
Flick the switch.
Fuck.
Did I break it??
No, just has to be reset now.
Yes!
So we're closed tomorrow.
So this is the mail of the museum that's been
redirected here over the course of the exhibition.
It's a work by Mungo Thomson.
Here's my concern–
Ok.
There are actual pertinent pieces of mail that need to be looked at.
Bills,
um,
I don't know. Someone's jury duty notice.
Right at 4:20?
4:20.
What if Will and I decided to send fresh oysters to the museum?
Yes.
They would have to go here.
Whoa.
I wouldn't...
I'm not going to send them.
And this you can touch.
This you cannot touch.
Interesting concept, by taking a variety of objects that
might not be seen as art.
And seeing it through the lens of the artist.
I know a lot of people like,
"I don't know if this is art–"
It's definitely art.
I would say.
I think.
I appreciate the effort.
I can't do it.
Well some of it I could do.
They should definitely come see the show.
Staring at them for a long time with other people kind of makes it art.
You walk up to something
like a suitcase
and you think it's just a suitcase but
it's–I mean, it is a suitcase.
But it's not.
