{"id":2206,"date":"2010-04-02T11:14:02","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T11:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/?page_id=2206"},"modified":"2012-11-24T22:19:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-24T22:19:00","slug":"art","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/art\/","title":{"rendered":"Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I describe myself as a situationist. I think that is almost entirely down to a postcard which I was once given by the fairly well-known English artist, Graham Gussin, whom I met at art college, and knew well for five years. Graham is definitely not a situationist, having exhibited extensively in art galleries and retained his links to academia. I however have exibited only twice in twenty six years, and whilst continuing to practise, have sold nothing. So it can be said that either I am a complete failure, or that I have remained true to the uncompromising ethos which situationists exemplify.<\/p>\n<p>The quote on the postcard (which I still have, somewhere) says the following:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\">&#8220;The point is not to put poetry at the disposal of the revolution,<br \/>\nbut to put the revolution at the disposal of poetry&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003300;\">So<\/span> is <a href=\"http:\/\/dfrw.net\">my portfolio<\/a> &#8211; which explains how I came to employ my talent so spectacularly, and some of what I&#8217;ve done &#8211; and <a href=\"http:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2009\/12\/a-businessman-a-cleric-and-the-book-of-things\/\">here is some of my recent performance art.<\/a> You see, I&#8217;m still doing it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7020\/6611827647_8d7087c1d5.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I describe myself as a situationist. I think that is almost entirely down to a postcard which I was once given by the fairly well-known English artist, Graham Gussin, whom I met at art college, and knew well for five years. Graham is definitely not a situationist, having exhibited extensively in art galleries and retained [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2206","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2206"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3090,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2206\/revisions\/3090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}