{"id":1311,"date":"2016-01-08T16:00:35","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T21:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/?p=1311"},"modified":"2016-06-03T14:38:44","modified_gmt":"2016-06-03T18:38:44","slug":"dont-cross-the-bridge-before-you-get-to-the-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/dont-cross-the-bridge-before-you-get-to-the-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t cross the bridge before you get to the river"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 2008 performance by <a href=\"\/wiki\/francis-alys\/\">Francis Al\u00ffs<\/a> of two human chains of children stretching from Europe to Africa and from Africa to Europe, across the Strait of Gibraltar, releasing a flotilla of sandals-turned-sailboats.<\/p>\n<div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid\">\n<div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-6\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<p>The\u00a0Gibraltar project reflected Al\u00ffs&#8217;\u00a0wish to\u00a0fall back upon poetics, and marked a\u00a0return to the way children\u2019s fantasies\u00a0relate to contemporary history.<\/p>\n<p>Whereas an actual attempt to close\u00a0the Strait of Gibraltar by means of,\u00a0say, a bridge of cargo ships would\u00a0have entailed a shift from artistic\u00a0practice into engineering, the absence\u00a0of a bridge in Al\u00ffs\u2019 project permits\u00a0a narrative in which shoes become\u00a0vessels and children turn into\u00a0mythical giants.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/francisalys.com\/dont-cross-the-bridge-before-you-get-to-the-river\/\"><em>Don\u2019t cross the bridge before you get to the river<\/em> on Francis Al\u00ffs&#8217; website<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 2008 performance by Francis Al\u00ffs of two human chains of children stretching from Europe to Africa and from Africa to Europe, across the Strait of Gibraltar, releasing a flotilla of sandals-turned-sailboats. The\u00a0Gibraltar project reflected Al\u00ffs&#8217;\u00a0wish to\u00a0fall back upon poetics, and marked a\u00a0return to the way children\u2019s fantasies\u00a0relate to contemporary history. Whereas an actual attempt &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/dont-cross-the-bridge-before-you-get-to-the-river\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Don\u2019t cross the bridge before you get to the river&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2878,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14],"tags":[138,23],"coauthors":[117],"class_list":["post-1311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projects","category-public-art-and-spatial-politics","tag-francis-alys","tag-performance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1311"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1313,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions\/1313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1311"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}