{"id":1515,"date":"2016-02-08T22:41:13","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T03:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/?p=1515"},"modified":"2016-02-09T10:50:48","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T15:50:48","slug":"paradox-of-praxis-i-sometimes-doing-something-leads-to-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/paradox-of-praxis-i-sometimes-doing-something-leads-to-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"Paradox of Praxis I (Sometimes Doing Something Leads to Nothing)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/130838361\" width=\"700\" height=\"520\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Sometimes Making Something Leads to Nothing\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>One day in 1997, Francis Alys began traversing Mexico City with a large block of ice. Over a span of nine hours, Alys proceeded to push, and eventually kick, the ice block over the city\u2019s roads and stairs. The subtitle of \u201cSometimes Doing Something Leads to Nothing\u201d and Alys\u2019 metaphor-ridden physical performance alludes to the futile efforts of Mexico City\u2019s laborers &#8212; striving all day for a better life, yet the seemingly endless work does not lead to greater socioeconomic mobility.<\/p>\n<p>Video Source from\u00a0Francis Alys:\u00a0http:\/\/francisalys.com\/sometimes-making-something-leads-to-nothing\/<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One day in 1997, Francis Alys began traversing Mexico City with a large block of ice. Over a span of nine hours, Alys proceeded to push, and eventually kick, the ice block over the city\u2019s roads and stairs. The subtitle of \u201cSometimes Doing Something Leads to Nothing\u201d and Alys\u2019 metaphor-ridden physical performance alludes to the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/paradox-of-praxis-i-sometimes-doing-something-leads-to-nothing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Paradox of Praxis I (Sometimes Doing Something Leads to Nothing)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":937,"featured_media":1516,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,14],"tags":[],"coauthors":[356],"class_list":["post-1515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-individuals-and-groups","category-public-art-and-spatial-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515","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\/937"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1517,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515\/revisions\/1517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1515"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}