{"id":21696,"date":"2020-07-08T16:48:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T14:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/?p=21696"},"modified":"2020-07-24T10:06:06","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T08:06:06","slug":"indira-allegra-interview-for-past-presence-exhibition-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/indira-allegra-interview-for-past-presence-exhibition-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Indira Allegra Interview for &#8220;Past Presence&#8221; Exhibition 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XzDCe6H2pmw\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Video (19:43): artist and queer woman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiraallegra.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Indira Allegra<\/a> is interviewed about &#8220;Past Presence&#8221; (2017), a two person show at Pro Arts Gallery in California with Christopher R. Martin. Her works deals with with black grief and police violence. It offers a healing space in response to the politicized trauma in Black contemporary life through the medium of weaving.<\/p>\n<p>Pro Arts Gallery writes,&#8217;for Past Presence, Allegra presents an iteration of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiraallegra.com\/projects\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Open Casket<\/a><\/em> \u2013 an ongoing, immersive digital weaving installation \u2013 by combining abstract compositions with audio recordings of grief-stricken families who have lost loved ones to police violence. Within Open Casket, Allegra explores the structure of crepe, a textile historically associated with mourning and commonly used to line the interior of caskets. Both visceral and mournful, Open Casket is a reflection on digital mourning and the materiality of Black sadness and Black life.&#8217;<\/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 (19:43): artist and queer woman Indira Allegra is interviewed about &#8220;Past Presence&#8221;, a  two  person show at Pro Arts gallery with Christopher R. Martin in 2017. Her works deals with with black grief and police violence. It offers a healing space in response to the politicized trauma in Black contemporary life through the medium of weaving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21697,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1024],"class_list":["post-21696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artist-talk","tag-indira-allegra"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21696","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=21696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}