{"id":3555,"date":"2010-10-05T11:14:09","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T11:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/?p=3555"},"modified":"2010-10-05T13:27:16","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T13:27:16","slug":"book-and-art-project-assume-nothing-by-rebecca-swan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/book-and-art-project-assume-nothing-by-rebecca-swan\/","title":{"rendered":"Book and Art Project: Assume Nothing by Rebecca Swan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3558\" title=\"Asume Nothing by Rebecca Swan\" src=\"http:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/AsumeNothing.jpg\" alt=\"Asume Nothing by Rebecca Swan\" width=\"200\" height=\"283\" \/>Queer artist Rebecca Swan from Aotearoa \/ New Zealand will go to New York to launch &#8216;Assume Nothing&#8217; &#8211; her beautiful coffee table book about gender diversity.<\/p>\n<p><code>October 29, 2010 Book Launch:\u00a0Assume Nothing by Rebecca Swan <\/code><br \/>\n19:30 \u2013 21:30 hrs. Downstairs @ The Tank, 354 W. 45th Street between 8th and 9th. on Manhattan, New York, USA.<br \/>\n(Buy tickets ($10) for Assume Nothing by Rebecca Swan at Brown Paper Tickets).<\/p>\n<p><code>Assume Nothing<\/code><br \/>\nRebecca Swan (Author), Judith &#8220;Jack&#8221; Halberstam (Foreword)<br \/>\nPublisher: Soft Skull Press; Bilingual edition (October 1, 2010)<br \/>\nLanguage: English<br \/>\nISBN-10: 1593762879<br \/>\nISBN-13: 978-1593762872<br \/>\nPaperback: 112 pages<\/p>\n<p>Assume Nothing is a book, an exhibtion and film honouring gender diversity across cultures and continents. Film-maker Kirsty MacDonald has documented Rebecca&#8217;s her working relationship with some of those photographed for the Asume Nothing art project.<\/p>\n<p>The organizers of the above\u00a0book launch event says &#8220;This one night event is sure to open your heart and mind, make you laugh and cry, and leave you with an expanded sense of what&#8217;s possible. It is an intoxicating cocktail of stunning performance, teasers from Assume Nothing the film and passionate insights from Rebecca into the heart of this 15 year project.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"445\" height=\"275\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4ISC6aJddYs?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"445\" height=\"275\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4ISC6aJddYs?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><em>Assume Nothing trailer. Excerpt from New Zealand filmmaker Kirsty MacDonald&#8217;s Feature Documentary &#8220;Assume Nothing.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><code>Films Featuring:<\/code><br \/>\nMilDred Gerestant, the performance artist formerly known as Dred www.dredlove.com.<br \/>\nJack Byrne, \u00a0performer, trans activist and Rebecca&#8217;s partner.<br \/>\nShigeyuki Kihara, a multi media artist, who is Samoan, Japanese and fa&#8217;afafine.<br \/>\nEma Lyon, a Maori weaver, who describes herself as ia (which in Te Reo Maori means both he and she).<br \/>\nMani Bruce Mitchell, an intersex activist, who shares the power of photographs in the reclaiming of her identity.<\/p>\n<p>Del LaGrace Volcano, a gender variant visual artist and activist, says about the book: &#8220;Not only does Rebecca Swan provide us with a timely and evocative motto for the 21st century, she does it with style and panache. &#8216;Assume Nothing&#8217; shows us what it looks like when theory is put into practice with love and considerable skill.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><code>Related Links<\/code><br \/>\n<a title=\"Rebecca Swan's website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccaswan.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rebecca Swan&#8217;s website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Queer artist Rebecca Swan from Aotearoa \/ New Zealand will go to New York to launch &#8216;Assume Nothing&#8217; &#8211; her beautiful coffee table book about gender diversity on October 29 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-book","category-art-project"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3555","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=3555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}