{"id":309,"date":"2009-01-01T15:32:08","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T14:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/?p=309"},"modified":"2023-01-02T20:01:10","modified_gmt":"2023-01-02T19:01:10","slug":"unorthodox-we","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/unorthodox-we\/","title":{"rendered":"Unorthodox (W\/E)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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view demo<\/a><\/p>\n

2009
\nvideo & sound
\nduration: 3 min<\/p>\n

starring: Sheila Bick, Francis Francine<\/p>\n

exhibited:
\nExemplar, Hortensia Gallery, London, 2009
\nMark Emblem, The Courtyard Centre for the Arts, Hereford, 2009
\n<\/a>The Beginning of The End, Beaconsfield, London, 2010<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a9<\/a> acknowledgements:
\nFlaming Creatures\u00a0(1963)\u00a0\u2192
\n<\/a>African Challenge (Zoot Sims)\u00a0\u2192<\/a>
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\nJack Smith’s ‘Flaming Creatures’ (1963, banned by the US Supreme Court in 1967 as “not within the protections of the First Amendment” because of its “utter [lack of] social value”) uses imagery taken from Hollywood Orientalist films of the 1940’s (eg ‘Ali Baba’) where the East becomes an exotic metaphor for otherness.<\/p>\n

Zoot Simms’ ‘African Challenge’ (1972) in common with a number of other Rastafarian songs of the time, uses phrases taken from the Oriental Orthodox Church of Ethiopia. “Satta amassagana ahamlack, ulaghize” is usually translated as “Give thanks to God continually”. However, this is not quite accurate Amharic, for the vowels in “amassagana” are mispronounced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

view demo 2009 video & sound duration: 3 min starring: Sheila Bick, Francis Francine exhibited: Exemplar, Hortensia Gallery, London, 2009 Mark Emblem, The Courtyard Centre for the Arts, Hereford, 2009 The Beginning of The End, Beaconsfield, London, 2010 \u00a9 acknowledgements: Flaming Creatures\u00a0(1963)\u00a0\u2192 African Challenge (Zoot Sims)\u00a0\u2192 . Jack Smith’s ‘Flaming Creatures’ (1963, banned by the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":17575,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exhibited-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18382,"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions\/18382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}