{"id":27649,"date":"2025-01-17T13:06:02","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T11:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/?p=27649"},"modified":"2025-01-17T13:06:02","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T11:06:02","slug":"in-conversation-catherine-opie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/in-conversation-catherine-opie\/","title":{"rendered":"In Conversation: Catherine Opie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"780\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aMwam1vPi2M?si=yQAze7yad_ieqwHh\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Video (1:05:18): In conversation with Tom King, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.regenprojects.com\/artists\/catherine-opie\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Catherine Opie<\/a> discusses her collaboration with performance artist Ron Athey.<\/p>\n<p>Description of the video: &#8216;Celebrated for her powerful and dynamic photographs documenting members of vibrant subcultures, Catherine Opie has long been searching for what she describes as \u201cthat fine art Americana image.\u201d This search led to her collaboration with Ron Athey and the creation of her Trojan Whore series. This series of monumental large-format Polaroid portraits captured Athey\u2019s performance work, which explored desire, sexuality, and trauma through BDSM and extreme body art, bringing Los Angeles\u2019 underground queer scene to the mainstream.<\/p>\n<p>In conversation with Tom King, Associate Professor of English at Brandeis University [Massachusetts, USA], Opie discusses her collaboration with Athey, her interest in probing Americans\u2019 culturally constructed identities, her artistic practice, and her explorations of queer communities.&#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 (1:05:18): In conversation with Tom King, Catherine Opie discusses her collaboration with performance artist Ron Athey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27650,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1466,22],"tags":[91],"class_list":["post-27649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-northeastern-united-states","category-photography","tag-catherine-opie"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27649","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=27649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}