{"id":24479,"date":"2023-02-12T12:38:08","date_gmt":"2023-02-12T10:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/?p=24479"},"modified":"2023-02-12T12:38:52","modified_gmt":"2023-02-12T10:38:52","slug":"memorial-to-a-marriage-with-patricia-cronin-and-eric-shiner-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/memorial-to-a-marriage-with-patricia-cronin-and-eric-shiner-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Memorial To A Marriage&#8217; with Patricia Cronin and Eric Shiner (2022)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"700\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E3kpiNVZ820\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Video (40:43): Artist <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patricia_Cronin\" title=\"Patricia Cronin's Wikipedia Page\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Patricia Cronin<\/a> sits in conversation with curator Eric Shiner about her seminal work <em>Memorial To A Marriage<\/em> (2002). They also talk about other bodies of works by feminist cross-disciplinary artist Patricia such as her erotic watercolors (1992\u20131999); <em>Shrine for Girls<\/em>, Venice (2015).<\/p>\n<h2>About Patricia Cronin<\/h2>\n<p>Queer feminist artist <a href=\"http:\/\/patriciacronin.net\/\" title=\"www.patriciacronin.net\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Patricia Cronin<\/a> is known for her paintings and sculptures that address contemporary human rights issues. She is married to artist Deborah Kass and currently based in New York. Patricia created <em>Memorial To A Marriage<\/em>, her gravestone-sculpture, because she needed the work to be there, visible to the whole world. &#x200d;<em>Memorial To A Marriage<\/em> (2002) is the first and only Marriage Equality monument in the world. Cronin created a three-ton Italian Carrara marble, mortuary sculpture of herself and (now) wife, artist <a href=\"http:\/\/deborahkass.com\/\" title=\"www.deborahkass.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deborah Kass<\/a>, recumbent in an entwined embrace on a bed, when same-sex marriage was illegal in the United States. She purchased their burial plot in Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, NY a National Historic Landmark, and permanently installed the sculpture on their future final resting place.<\/p>\n<p><em>[The copyright of the above video 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 (40:43): Artist Patricia Cronin sits in conversation with curator Eric Shiner about her seminal work &#8216;Memorial To A Marriage&#8217; (2002). They also talk about other bodies of works by feminist cross-disciplinary artist Patricia such as her erotic watercolors (1992\u20131999) and &#8216;Shrine for Girls&#8217;, Venice (2015).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24480,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1466,27],"tags":[438],"class_list":["post-24479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-northeastern-united-states","category-sculpture","tag-patricia-cronin"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24479","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=24479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}