{"id":93,"date":"2012-03-10T22:01:48","date_gmt":"2012-03-10T22:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lovingthespider.net\/?page_id=93"},"modified":"2012-04-22T12:07:08","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T12:07:08","slug":"disintegration","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lovingthespider.net\/?page_id=93","title":{"rendered":"Disintegration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width:420px; float: left; padding-right: 10px; display: inline;\" class=\"post_column_1\"><p><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lovingthespider.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/tipicabin3.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"tipicabin3\" width=\"400\" height=\"161\" class=\"ice\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ice\">\nOnce with names like<br \/>\nAncient Wind&#8230;<br \/>\nNow, little fisted flowers falter<br \/>\non good days when hard rains come washing<br \/>\nstrangers walking darkly<br \/>\nto your door. <\/p>\n<p>And on bad days<br \/>\nas children step aside<br \/>\nfor sun glinting bright<br \/>\noff a rusting<br \/>\npunctured<br \/>\ncan, <\/p>\n<p>I close my mind<br \/>\nto the older man brown and weathered,<br \/>\nwith hair untied or to<br \/>\nthe younger woman with<br \/>\ndead doll eyes&#8230; And outside<br \/>\nwind pushes echoes of<br \/>\na dying<br \/>\nland earth song.<\/p>\n<p><HR><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lovingthespider.net\/?page_id=104\" title=\"winterindex\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lovingthespider.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/spiderbkg1.gif\" alt=\"winterindex.html\" title=\"spiderbkg\" width=\"100\" height=\"90\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-269\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><br clear=\"all\" \/><br \/>\n<\/div><br \/>\n<div style=\"width:380px; float: left; padding-right: 20px; display: inline;\" class=\"post_column_1\"><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lovingthespider.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Ahasiw_Maskegon-Iskwew221.jpg\" alt=\"Ahasiw Maskegon-Iskwew - White Shame\" title=\"Ahasiw Maskegon-Iskwew - White Shame\" width=\"380\" height=\"544\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lovingthespider.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Ahasiw_Maskegon-Iskwew221.jpg 380w, https:\/\/lovingthespider.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Ahasiw_Maskegon-Iskwew221-209x300.jpg 209w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>AP: \u201cWhite Shame\u201d:<br \/>\n<em>The actions taken in Maskegon-Iskwew&#8217;s work are private, shocking; as audience members we are given a sense of both voyeuristic privilege and profound unease. This public enactment of suffering triggered outrage, shock and grief among members of the audience, especially those of First Nations descent. Some Aboriginal people viewed the performance as a sacrilege of the Sundance. A line was crossed in which a representational facsimile of a sacred ceremony was shown. The mechanics of the Sundance are widely known, if not understood. In the repetition of this act the artist places himself in the hands of the audience, baring himself painfully. The act is one of protest against a racist attack on elders, women and children seeking refuge. But was it sacrilegious? Or in performing this act in a secular space does Maskegon-Iskwew create a new ritual of protest?<\/em><br \/>\nFrom my essay \u2018New Traditions: Post-Oka Aboriginal Performance Art in Vancouver\u2019<\/h4>\n<p><\/div><div style=\"clear: both;\"><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-93","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovingthespider.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovingthespider.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovingthespider.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovingthespider.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovingthespider.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/lovingthespider.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1983,"href":"https:\/\/lovingthespider.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/93\/revisions\/1983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovingthespider.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}