{"id":934,"date":"2005-09-15T03:06:17","date_gmt":"2005-09-15T09:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=934"},"modified":"2025-01-10T08:45:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T14:45:48","slug":"shelly-silvers-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2005\/09\/15\/shelly-silvers-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Shelly Silver&#8217;s World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Thursday, September 15, 2005, 6pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2009\/07\/shelly_silver_what_i_am_looking_for_0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2249 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2009\/07\/shelly_silver_what_i_am_looking_for_0.jpg\" alt=\"shelly_silver_what_i_am_looking_for_0\" width=\"450\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Shelly Silver in person!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Acclaimed photographer and video artist Shelly Silver\u2019s work has been exhibited the whole world over, and indeed a peripatetic existence is essential to her practice, which questions the myths and realities of cultural and national identity. Her work is simultaneously honest and fictional, beautiful and disturbing, cynical and romantic. Tonight Silver shares her latest video <em>What I\u2019m Looking For <\/em>(2004), a short story about desire, control and the intimacy of portrait photography; a controversial ode to uniformed police officers, <em>1<\/em> (2001); <em>Rooster <\/em>(2001), an installation based on an 18th century Jewish tale; <em>Small Lies, Big Truth <\/em>(1999) which deals with morality, voyeurism and the banality of sex in the late 20th century; and excerpts from Silver\u2019s stunning recent experimental feature, <em>Suicide<\/em> (2003). Silver will also share excerpts from the documentary <em>37 Stories About Leaving Home<\/em> (1996) and a trailer from her 1990 feature the <em>Houses That Are Left<\/em>. Co-presented with the Video Data Bank. 1990-2004, Shelly Silver, USA\/Switzerland\/Japan, ca. 85 min, video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, September 15, 2005, 6pm Shelly Silver in person! Acclaimed photographer and video artist Shelly Silver\u2019s work has been exhibited the whole world over, and indeed a peripatetic existence is essential to her practice, which questions the myths and realities of cultural and national identity. Her work is simultaneously honest and fictional, beautiful and disturbing, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2005\/09\/15\/shelly-silvers-world\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Shelly Silver&#8217;s World<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":2249,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[450,615,623],"class_list":["post-934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-10","tag-non-fiction","tag-usa","tag-video-data-bank"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934","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=934"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10062,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions\/10062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}