{"id":127,"date":"2005-04-26T02:42:17","date_gmt":"2005-04-26T02:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=127"},"modified":"2005-06-06T11:18:29","modified_gmt":"2005-06-06T01:18:29","slug":"over-my-dead-body-mona-hatoum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2005\/04\/26\/over-my-dead-body-mona-hatoum\/","title":{"rendered":"Over My Dead Body &#8212; Mona Hatoum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went to see the Mona Hatoum exhibition &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mca.com.au\/default.asp?page_id=10&#038;content_id=1427\">Over My Dead Body<\/a>&#8221; at Sydney&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mca.com.au\/\">Museum of Contemporary Art<\/a> on the weekend. I had seen some of her work before, at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art several years ago. This new exhibition includes a lot of material from her performance art pieces &#8212; videos and preparatory notes &#8212; as well as some of her sculptures and installations. Very interesting stuff, though a lot of her work has an unsettling underlying violence. Particularly the performance where she cuts out her own entrails and serves them up on dinner plates.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition included the preparatory notes for a piece called &#8220;Live Work for the Black Room&#8221;, which consisted of the artist, dressed in black in a completely black room, repeatedly falling on the floor, chalking the outline of her body on the floor, and then getting up and lighting a candle in the outline. Much as I like the idea of this piece, the thing that really stuck in my mind from the whole exhibition was this sentence from the notes.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nPractise falling on the floor.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s a sentence that you can read a lot into and get a lot out of.<\/p>\n<!-- wpsso rrssb get buttons: buttons on archive option not enabled -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to see the Mona Hatoum exhibition &#8220;Over My Dead Body&#8221; at Sydney&#8217;s Museum of Contemporary Art on the weekend. I had seen some of her work before, at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art several years ago. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2005\/04\/26\/over-my-dead-body-mona-hatoum\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14,13],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-art","tag-sydney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}