{"id":1048,"date":"2003-04-10T02:54:52","date_gmt":"2003-04-10T08:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=1048"},"modified":"2025-01-10T09:04:15","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T15:04:15","slug":"recent-work-by-donigan-cumming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2003\/04\/10\/recent-work-by-donigan-cumming\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Work by Donigan Cumming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>Thursday, April 10, 2003, 8pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2009\/07\/cumming-my-dinner-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2355 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2009\/07\/cumming-my-dinner-4.jpg\" alt=\"cumming-my-dinner-4\" width=\"450\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>Donigan Cumming in person!<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Essentially documentary in nature, Donigan Cumming\u2019s work incorporates photography, sound, video and installation.\u00a0 His work is routinely unsettling and wrought with unexpected turns and complex characters.\u00a0 Cumming has succeeded in establishing a documentary method that breaks away from the illusion of objectivity.\u00a0 In the words of video scholar Edward Morose, \u201cCumming\u2019s intent [\u2026] is to take reality wherever he finds it and rework, restage and then, through the language of documentary, present it as real.\u00a0 In readily threatening our values and perceptions, Cumming\u2019s photography of engagement reflects the theater of Beckett and Ionesco, Brecht and Artaud.\u201d\u00a0 Tonight, Cumming shares with us recent work, including the acclaimed <em>My Dinner With Weegee<\/em> (2001), a story of friendships which juxtaposes an old New York activist with Cumming as he enters his 54th year.\u00a0 Also included in the program are <em>Voice:Off <\/em>(2003), the autobiography of a forgotten man who uses a video camera as his prosthesis, and the romantic story of an old soldier\u2019s regrets, <em>Cold Harbor <\/em>(2003). Co-presented with Video Data Bank. 1999\u20142003, Donigan Cumming, Canada, 91 min, video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, April 10, 2003, 8pm Donigan Cumming in person! Essentially documentary in nature, Donigan Cumming\u2019s work incorporates photography, sound, video and installation.\u00a0 His work is routinely unsettling and wrought with unexpected turns and complex characters.\u00a0 Cumming has succeeded in establishing a documentary method that breaks away from the illusion of objectivity.\u00a0 In the words of [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2003\/04\/10\/recent-work-by-donigan-cumming\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Recent Work by Donigan Cumming<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":2355,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[108,423,450,481,623],"class_list":["post-1048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-8","tag-canada","tag-monographic-shows","tag-non-fiction","tag-portrait","tag-video-data-bank"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10104,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions\/10104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}