Tim Lee, Untitled (Buster Keaton, 1897), 2010 Artists Tim Lee and Nina Beier in conversation with curator Jens Hoffmann on the exhibition, When Attitudes Become Form Become Attitudes, currently on view at the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts. Tim Lee: I just watched The Bourne Legacy, a movie that is neither a remake nor a full sequel, nor can it be aptly qualified as a franchise reboot. The film is confounding in the way it can’t be neatly categorized—it both follows and diverts from its predecessors and merely makes conscious a knowledge of the former in order to tell a completely different story. I can see “When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes” as falling in a somewhat similar and ambiguous category. Both the film and the exhibition inscribe their primary references in their titles as a way to both measure the historical impact of the original and as a starting point from which its standards and achievements can be potentially renewed. 

Tim Lee, Untitled (Buster Keaton, 1897), 2010

Artists Tim Lee and Nina Beier in conversation with curator Jens Hoffmann on the exhibition, When Attitudes Become Form Become Attitudes, currently on view at the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts.

Tim Lee: I just watched The Bourne Legacy, a movie that is neither a remake nor a full sequel, nor can it be aptly qualified as a franchise reboot. The film is confounding in the way it can’t be neatly categorized—it both follows and diverts from its predecessors and merely makes conscious a knowledge of the former in order to tell a completely different story.

I can see “When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes” as falling in a somewhat similar and ambiguous category. Both the film and the exhibition inscribe their primary references in their titles as a way to both measure the historical impact of the original and as a starting point from which its standards and achievements can be potentially renewed. 

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