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Setting Up with Maya Hayuk

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007 – running time 07:56
As she sets up for her most recent show, Maya Hayuk tells XLR8R that everything she does -painting, photography, skateboard snowboard clothing and shoe design, even an Absolut campaign- is shaped by music and the cultural explosion we live in.

XLR8R hangs out with Maya Hayuk as she sets up her most recent exhibit, at Upper Playground's gallery, Fifty24SF.

Maya discusses how everything she's done- painting, photography, skateboard/snowboard/clothing/shoe design, even an Absolut campaign-has been shaped by music, and what a relief it is that art has finally been liberated from the "faraway, enchanted land" of museums.

Be sure to head over to the XLR8RTV forum to discuss this episode.

Highlights
absolut vodka ( 4:48, 4:48 ) bloodline ( 0:40, 0:40 ) Everest ( 0:08, 0:08 ) playground ( 0:07, 0:07 ) absolut vodka ( 4:48, 4:48 ) bloodline ( 0:40, 0:40 ) Everest ( 0:08, 0:08 ) playground ( 0:07, 0:07 )

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" Hi I'm I'm up at me in my high UK and around this is my -- showed up for playground called for Everest. You guys want to hang out and see what I'm doing."

" I really believe that there is a necessity. In -- patriotism. To create whether it's biological urge to continue your bloodline or whether it's just. Openings of some kind of spirit -- whatever you want to call it like it's always there it's just a matter whether you see. So I think that. You know I can't decide whether there has been cultural explosion or if there has been. Just an awareness of culture that is always an existing it just. Wasn't recognized. It's."

" I seriously like. Wouldn't even go to my own art openings in an -- to Conley really really really you know because they'd be so flip out censure. On Thursday night I'll probably just feel like waste it and you know handling. Like. -- When I was growing up like we didn't. I live I lived kind of like the music world that. Art work place for. Posters and album art and things like up quickly there really wasn't. There's a disease and things like but there wasn't this like. Global international. Off soon. Collection. Collective of people who are always. Kind of jamming on the scene frequency and it you know getting inspired by one another and I didn't have a sense of that when I was growing up I had the sense that. You know -- with something. With the sort of reserve for like you know museums and not that many people saw on I didn't even really consider Ehrlich what I was inhuman working on with -- like. As far as I was concerned like. Because I just sat like stared at record covers so much you know like Roger -- covers and things like that like to me that was like. Coolest thing and like the -- the highest possible honor you could ever have as an artist is like to me you know Roger dean was like some old. Dude Blake looked like a wizard or something that lives on a mountain that looks like one of his innings as far as I know. For the first person who was like a real person. Was raining had he done when he did yes I'm thinking album covers. All my ugly facts. A real person June. Really put his -- really -- the -- album cover."

" Okay."

" So these are all. Wood panels and I've been working on the last couple of years that I'm gonna be hanging. You kind of building these totem poles out of the trees. Com that are occupying this room. And definitely paying uses lake because I. Pretty pros the idea of sex. And love being me. Pretty awesome like vehicles to getting to know yourself and if you want to use the word that he can use -- thrown outward as well. An -- says is that all kind of help partially yes reaction tests this abstinence only campaign. And that's -- you argue with what this is you know. I think it's."

" One -- like kind of set the whole thing in motion. Was. Getting asked to do you absolut vodka campaign that came at a couple years ago. Kind of thought it was a prank phone call when it pay when I met with sooners absolutely he was like. My when you look at this as a grant you know for use to. Com ironically quit you're part continued job. And just focus on art that was such a gift and there was such an amazing thing to hear from someone. In his position. Canceled a lot of vodka for the guy I'd seen part and it's."

" It's."

" The delineation between. Fine art and design is at that moment where art has a function and -- idea. That might work. Can have a functional use. You weren T shirt which are also like wearing you know I guess a piece of art at this time here you have a snowboard. You bought that snowboard also for that art. And I. And take because you know like I said when I as a kid like art -- sort of relegated to this please call click the museum. And who don't know who really -- you know like we would go to museums and stuff I like I was this sort of like. Trip that you would meet to this far away channel to blend of art. And then otherwise art didn't really otherwise exist in your life and it's a kind of like that hit it can and it has. In different capacities."

" So what I'm thinking. About this pieces on doing summer."

" So infinity so for adverse. And it. -- slumber party and you statement to people and you wonder if he wins and in turn up every others and we here at like seven it's I mean again we say. Oh my god there's other people here yeah."

" Yeah."

" Hi I'm I'm up at me in my high UK and around this is my -- showed up for playground called for Everest. You guys want to hang out and see what I'm doing."

" I really believe that there is a necessity. In -- patriotism. To create whether it's biological urge to continue your bloodline or whether it's just. Openings of some kind of spirit -- whatever you want to call it like it's always there it's just a matter whether you see. So I think that. You know I can't decide whether there has been cultural explosion or if there has been. Just an awareness of culture that is always an existing it just. Wasn't recognized. It's."

" I seriously like. Wouldn't even go to my own art openings in an -- to Conley really really really you know because they'd be so flip out censure. On Thursday night I'll probably just feel like waste it and you know handling. Like. -- When I was growing up like we didn't. I live I lived kind of like the music world that. Art work place for. Posters and album art and things like up quickly there really wasn't. There's a disease and things like but there wasn't this like. Global international. Off soon. Collection. Collective of people who are always. Kind of jamming on the scene frequency and it you know getting inspired by one another and I didn't have a sense of that when I was growing up I had the sense that. You know -- with something. With the sort of reserve for like you know museums and not that many people saw on I didn't even really consider Ehrlich what I was inhuman working on with -- like. As far as I was concerned like. Because I just sat like stared at record covers so much you know like Roger -- covers and things like that like to me that was like. Coolest thing and like the -- the highest possible honor you could ever have as an artist is like to me you know Roger dean was like some old. Dude Blake looked like a wizard or something that lives on a mountain that looks like one of his innings as far as I know. For the first person who was like a real person. Was raining had he done when he did yes I'm thinking album covers. All my ugly facts. A real person June. Really put his -- really -- the -- album cover."

" Okay."

" So these are all. Wood panels and I've been working on the last couple of years that I'm gonna be hanging. You kind of building these totem poles out of the trees. Com that are occupying this room. And definitely paying uses lake because I. Pretty pros the idea of sex. And love being me. Pretty awesome like vehicles to getting to know yourself and if you want to use the word that he can use -- thrown outward as well. An -- says is that all kind of help partially yes reaction tests this abstinence only campaign. And that's -- you argue with what this is you know. I think it's."

" One -- like kind of set the whole thing in motion. Was. Getting asked to do you absolut vodka campaign that came at a couple years ago. Kind of thought it was a prank phone call when it pay when I met with sooners absolutely he was like. My when you look at this as a grant you know for use to. Com ironically quit you're part continued job. And just focus on art that was such a gift and there was such an amazing thing to hear from someone. In his position. Canceled a lot of vodka for the guy I'd seen part and it's."

" It's."

" The delineation between. Fine art and design is at that moment where art has a function and -- idea. That might work. Can have a functional use. You weren T shirt which are also like wearing you know I guess a piece of art at this time here you have a snowboard. You bought that snowboard also for that art. And I. And take because you know like I said when I as a kid like art -- sort of relegated to this please call click the museum. And who don't know who really -- you know like we would go to museums and stuff I like I was this sort of like. Trip that you would meet to this far away channel to blend of art. And then otherwise art didn't really otherwise exist in your life and it's a kind of like that hit it can and it has. In different capacities."

" So what I'm thinking. About this pieces on doing summer."

" So infinity so for adverse. And it. -- slumber party and you statement to people and you wonder if he wins and in turn up every others and we here at like seven it's I mean again we say. Oh my god there's other people here yeah."

" Yeah."