{"id":378,"date":"2012-08-07T21:58:53","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T19:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lisamariekaftori.com\/?page_id=378"},"modified":"2022-07-20T00:52:05","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T22:52:05","slug":"about-spinning-on-uncertain-ground","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.lisamariekaftori.com\/?page_id=378","title":{"rendered":"about &#8220;spinning on uncertain ground&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>invisible forces (time and place) shape our realities.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>tears like pearls fall from our eyes, slipping into waiting lachrymatories.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>the land spins. from the center rises a note of joy and lament.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>sustained and eerie, echoing across the almond fields<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>into an uncertain future.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;Spinning on Uncertain Ground,&#8221; was an interactive, site-specific installation. Installation elements included a trough of earth with 12 footprints, a series of hand blown glass lachrymatories containing pearls, a cloth panel embroidered with the text: <strong>gather your tears into my bottle<\/strong>, an ancient Roman lachrymatory borrowed from an antiquities collection, an oversized milking stool upon which viewers were invited to sit while listening to &#8220;Radical Beauty,&#8221; a site-specific audio piece, two video projections: one featuring a child spinning and one featuring a woman spinning, each on the beach but circling in opposite directions, and other discreet objects.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p>Many thanks to Aiyana Sky Powell for spinning in, &#8220;Young Girl Spinning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Special thanks to filmmaker Robin Bisio and to dancer Cybil Gilbertson for 30 beautiful seconds from the film &#8220;Reign of Dreams.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lisa Marie Kaftori<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>in collaboration with Sophia Isajiw. University Art Gallery, California State University Stanislaus, 2000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><em>\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><em>\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>invisible forces (time and place) shape our realities. tears like pearls fall from our eyes, slipping into waiting lachrymatories. the land spins. from the center rises a note of joy and lament. sustained and eerie, echoing across the almond fields into an uncertain future. &#8220;Spinning on Uncertain Ground,&#8221; was an interactive, site-specific installation. Installation elements [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-378","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lisamariekaftori.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lisamariekaftori.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lisamariekaftori.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lisamariekaftori.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lisamariekaftori.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.lisamariekaftori.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lisamariekaftori.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}