{"id":3912,"date":"2018-12-21T13:23:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T13:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tahneyalexandramay.com\/?p=3912"},"modified":"2022-11-21T09:21:15","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T09:21:15","slug":"kawita-vatanajyankur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tahneyalexandramay.com\/index.php\/2018\/12\/21\/kawita-vatanajyankur\/","title":{"rendered":"Farrago | Kawita Vatanajyankur: The Aesthetics of Perpetual Toil"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Through an extravagant pose plastered on a billboard, Thai-Australian artist\u00a0Kawita\u00a0Vatanajyankur\u00a0<\/i>asks viewers to\u00a0consider\u00a0the human labour expended within their consumption\u00a0habits.\u00a0Vatanajyankur\u2019s\u00a0Carrier II,\u00a0<\/i>installed on the exterior of the University of Melbourne\u2019s\u00a0School of Mathematics and Statistics building, shows her\u00a0<\/i>body suspended by ropes against a blue background bearing towering fish baskets. The work illuminates the fraught relationship between humans and their labour\u00a0by\u00a0symbolising\u00a0the tribulations of the Thai fishing industry to a culturally-distanced audience, the University of Melbourne\u2019s crowds.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Exhibition response: Kawita Vatanajyankur’s Aesthetics of Perpetual Toil<\/a> by Tahney Fosdike originally published in\u00a0Farrago as part of Next Wave Festival’s emerging writers program <\/a>(December 2018).\u00a0<\/b><\/h6>

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Through an extravagant pose plastered on a billboard, Thai-Australian artist Kawita Vatanajyankur asks viewers to consider the human labour expended within their consumption habits. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[359,377,14],"tags":[16,41,15],"class_list":["post-3912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-writing","category-editorial","category-reviews","tag-art","tag-contemporary-art","tag-melbourne"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tahneyalexandramay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/NextWaveMelbUniSelects-0005-image-credit-Zan-Wimberley-scaled.jpeg?fit=2560%2C1707&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Pso7-116","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tahneyalexandramay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tahneyalexandramay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tahneyalexandramay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tahneyalexandramay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tahneyalexandramay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3912"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/tahneyalexandramay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5375,"href":"https:\/\/tahneyalexandramay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3912\/revisions\/5375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tahneyalexandramay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tahneyalexandramay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tahneyalexandramay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tahneyalexandramay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}