{"id":3456,"date":"2018-02-22T11:08:21","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T16:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/?p=3456"},"modified":"2018-02-22T11:08:21","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T16:08:21","slug":"turning-work-into-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/turning-work-into-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning Work into Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In The Art of the MOOC Video Lecture\u00a02.2 &#8211; Activism &amp; Social Movements: Aesthetics, Art History, and Cultural Institutions, the video ended with the question of which social practices still elude art making?\u00a0 I will argue that even the social action that nearly everyone does every day &#8211; their job &#8211; can be treated as art.<\/p>\n<p>My mother, who is a general contractor, has turned the job of designing and building houses into a\u00a0 art. Instead of treating her work as simply a job, she brings an astounding level of creativity to work with her. She creates an exhibit that can be viewed, and purchased, on the dates of her open houses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In The Art of the MOOC Video Lecture\u00a02.2 &#8211; Activism &amp; Social Movements: Aesthetics, Art History, and Cultural Institutions, the video ended with the question of which social practices still elude art making?\u00a0 I will argue that even the social action that nearly everyone does every day &#8211; their job &#8211; can be treated as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/turning-work-into-art\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Turning Work into Art&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3128,"featured_media":3457,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"coauthors":[2603],"class_list":["post-3456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3456","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\/3128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3458,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3456\/revisions\/3458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3456"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}