{"id":1073,"date":"2007-11-09T15:01:46","date_gmt":"2007-11-09T20:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=1073"},"modified":"2024-05-04T13:52:44","modified_gmt":"2024-05-04T20:52:44","slug":"friday-video-im-still-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=1073","title":{"rendered":"Friday video: I&#8217;m still alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/image033.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"401\" height=\"260\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/image033.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/image033.png 401w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/image033-300x195.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 401px) 100vw, 401px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>(1:51) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Conceptual artist On Kawara did a long-running art piece where every day he sent a postcard (or sometimes a telegram) to various friends, giving the date, and saying &#8220;I&#8217;m still alive.&#8221; For all I know, he&#8217;s still doing it. I&#8217;ve just compressed the concept, and translated it to new media&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think conceptual art and progressive religion are vaguely related. Worship in the progressive church looks more like conceptual art or a happening or performance art, whereas more traditional worship in the Western tradition looks more like sacred theatre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Note: video host blip.tv is defunct, so this video no longer exists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(1:51) Conceptual artist On Kawara did a long-running art piece where every day he sent a postcard (or sometimes a telegram) to various friends, giving the date, and saying &#8220;I&#8217;m still alive.&#8221; For all I know, he&#8217;s still doing it. I&#8217;ve just compressed the concept, and translated it to new media&#8230;. I think conceptual art [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,57],"tags":[278],"class_list":["post-1073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-culture","category-vlog","tag-conceptual-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8395,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions\/8395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}