{"id":134,"date":"2000-09-27T02:00:26","date_gmt":"2000-09-27T02:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lawrencebrown.eu\/LOCWS\/?p=134&#038;language=en"},"modified":"2012-08-21T10:27:07","modified_gmt":"2012-08-21T10:27:07","slug":"tim-davies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/?p=134","title":{"rendered":"Tim Davies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Blue Funk I<\/strong><br \/>\nSwansea Castle<br \/>\n<strong>Blue Funk II<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Maritime &#038; Industrial Museum<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/artworks\/davies\/davies1.jpg\" alt=\"davies1\" title=\"davies1\" width=\"510\" height=\"334\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-532\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/artworks\/davies\/davies2.jpg\" alt=\"davies2\" title=\"davies2\" width=\"510\" height=\"334\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-532\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/artworks\/davies\/davies3.jpg\" alt=\"davies3\" title=\"davies3\" width=\"510\" height=\"334\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-532\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/artworks\/davies\/davies4.jpg\" alt=\"davies4\" title=\"davies4\" width=\"510\" height=\"334\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-532\" \/><br \/>\nTim Davies presented two related works which reinstated the subject to the object.<br \/>\nIn Blue Funk I Davies used blue projected light to shroud Swansea Castle, while in Blue Funk II Swansea Museum&#8217;s Bofers Gun was veiled in blue organza.<br \/>\nBoth referred to the slang expression &#8216;blue funk&#8217; which means &#8216;abject terror&#8217;, reminding the viewer of the original social and cultural contexts of the two objects. These re-presentations forced the audience to examine not only the material objects more closely, but also the multifarious discourses surrounding them.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Funk I Swansea Castle Blue Funk II The Maritime &#038; Industrial Museum Tim Davies presented two related works which reinstated the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8,10],"tags":[53,99],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heritage","category-intervention","category-news","tag-locws-international-2000","tag-tim-davies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4518,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions\/4518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}