{"id":20715,"date":"2019-08-01T20:01:02","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T18:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/?p=20715"},"modified":"2019-08-01T20:02:09","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T18:02:09","slug":"interview-with-vietnamese-artist-himiko-nguyen-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/interview-with-vietnamese-artist-himiko-nguyen-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Vietnamese Artist Himiko Nguyen (2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RE4ioX6frKo\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Video (7:15): interview with Vietnamese artist Himiko Nguyen by Post Vidai Collection (2018)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cargocollective.com\/himikonguyen\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Himiko Nguyen<\/a> is known for her intricate installations with provocative messages about self identity and gender issues. <em>Come Out<\/em> by Himiko Nguyen which is mentioned in the video above is an autobiographical project. Cristina Nualart writes about em>Come Out<\/em> by Himiko Nguyen: <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Self-portraits of the naked artist, often in a yoga pose, softly lit against a dark background, are encased in black boxes mounted on the wall like cupboards. Each box has a hole in the centre for the viewer to look in. Upon pressing a light switch, the photograph inside becomes visible. The visibility that the title itself calls for is thus interactive. The coming out process requires the help of a viewer who will switch on the light. Most importantly, the boxed framing device has the commanding job of channelling the viewer\u2019s gaze to completely reverse the conventional power structure gaze\/nude.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p><em>[The copyright of the video above remains with the original holder and it is used here for the purpose of education, comparison and criticism only.]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video (7:15): interview with Vietnamese artist Himiko Nguyen by Post Vidai Collection (2018).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1357],"class_list":["post-20715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-artist-talk","tag-himiko-nguyen","post_format-post-format-video"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}