{"id":1217,"date":"2017-06-13T10:08:17","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T10:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/?p=1217"},"modified":"2017-07-03T14:26:06","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T14:26:06","slug":"revolutionrevelation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/?p=1217","title":{"rendered":"Revolution\/Revelation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The image is a still from Paolo Ciregia&#8217;s project <em>Perestroika<\/em>, an account of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2014. \u00a0It was shown as part of the Diffusion 2017 festival in Cardiff, 1 &#8211; 31 May. \u00a0Revolution was the theme of the entire, month-long project, organized by Ffotogallery, Cardiff. I was there as a reviewer for <em>Source<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The more I looked, the more it seemed that the term &#8220;revolution&#8221; wasn&#8217;t exactly current, but had become a name for some kind of change we pehaps no longer think is possible&#8211;too sweeping, too tied to utopian ideas we&#8217;ve come to mistrust. \u00a0We speak of transformation, perhaps, or revelation, but it&#8217;s more restrained. \u00a0Ciregia&#8217;s video, in any case, seemed to me to be in a category of its own, a work that moved the ground of &#8220;revolution&#8221; from the political here and now into the ways we can or can&#8217;t, do or don&#8217;t generate meaning from, in this case, war. \u00a0It explicitly rejects conventions of television war coverage, and insists on <em>Perestroika, <\/em>free expression, of a conflict between particular people at one time in place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The image is a still from Paolo Ciregia&#8217;s project Perestroika, an account of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2014. \u00a0It was shown as part of the Diffusion 2017 festival in Cardiff, 1 &#8211;&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1218,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[234],"class_list":["post-1217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","tag-perestroika-paolo-ciregia-ffotogallery-diffusion-2017"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1252,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions\/1252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}