{"id":482,"date":"2018-07-02T09:00:52","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T09:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/?p=482"},"modified":"2021-09-12T00:23:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-12T00:23:00","slug":"a-gentle-communion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/?p=482","title":{"rendered":"A gentle communion <h3>Considering <em>Sleeping Arrangements<\/em><\/h3>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I sit in the gloomy, almost oppressive environment of the Blumhardt Gallery at the Dowse Art Museum, in which a small but dazzling piece of curatorial handiwork is on display. Beneath me is a bench covered in pale-green vinyl, patterned with spots that are rough to the touch. The surface feels non-slip. It would not be amiss on the floor of a bathroom. I quickly think of urinals and just as quickly feel a flush of guilt for coming up with so stereotypical an association. Curated by Simon Gennard, the 2017 Blumhardt Foundation\/Creative New Zealand Curatorial Intern at the Dowse, <a href=\"http:\/\/dowse.org.nz\/exhibitions\/detail\/sleeping-arrangements\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Sleeping Arrangements<\/em><\/a> centres on a series of quilts made by renowned textile artist Malcolm Harrison (1941\u20132007). These works provide a departure point for a meditation on the \u2018AIDS crisis\u2019 of the 1980s and \u201990s, and on queer histories in Aotearoa more broadly. \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pantograph-punch.com\/post\/gentle-communion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Continue reading<\/a> on The Pantograph Punch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sit in the gloomy, almost oppressive environment of the Blumhardt Gallery at the Dowse Art Museum, in which a small but dazzling piece of curatorial handiwork is on display. Beneath me is a bench covered in pale-green vinyl, patterned with spots that are rough to the touch. The surface feels non-slip. It would not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[137,195,136,139,135,138],"class_list":["post-482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-writing","tag-grant-lingard","tag-lgbtqia","tag-malcolm-harrison","tag-micheal-mccabe","tag-simon-gennard","tag-zac-langdon-pole"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1548,"href":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions\/1548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}