{"id":2513,"date":"2016-03-28T22:34:41","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T02:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/?p=2513"},"modified":"2016-03-28T22:35:26","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T02:35:26","slug":"absence-as-embodiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/absence-as-embodiment\/","title":{"rendered":"Absence as Embodiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrea Chung&#8217;s photo series, &#8216;May Day&#8217; features colonial photographs of Caribbean natives working in the fields. Chung uses photographs containing common tropes of that era \u2014 plantation workers in the fields, cropping sugar cane, bunches of bananas, etc. \u2014 and removes the bodies from them. Dr. Krista Thompson elaborates on the significance of this work in her article &#8216;The Evidence of Things Not Photographed&#8217; absent of the bodies to perform tropicality, the narratives change greatly.<\/p>\n<p>View Series <a href=\"http:\/\/andreachungart.com\/2-d-works\/may-day-series\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/mayday1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2514\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2514\" src=\"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/mayday1-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"mayday1\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/mayday1-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/mayday1-768x515.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/mayday1.jpg 884w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrea Chung&#8217;s photo series, &#8216;May Day&#8217; features colonial photographs of Caribbean natives working in the fields. Chung uses photographs containing common tropes of that era \u2014 plantation workers in the fields, cropping sugar cane, bunches of bananas, etc. \u2014 and removes the bodies from them. Dr. Krista Thompson elaborates on the significance of this work &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/absence-as-embodiment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Absence as Embodiment&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":946,"featured_media":2514,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"coauthors":[382],"class_list":["post-2513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-embodied-knowledges"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513","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\/946"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2515,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513\/revisions\/2515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2513"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}