{"id":516,"date":"2011-06-17T01:35:37","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T01:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=516"},"modified":"2011-08-08T02:18:40","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T02:18:40","slug":"aleksandra-mir-the-seduction-of-galileo-galilei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=516","title":{"rendered":"Aleksandra Mir: The Seduction of Galileo Galilei"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><strong>Aleksandra Mir: The Seduction of Galileo Galilei<br \/>\nJune 18 \u2013 August 6, 2011<br \/>\nOpening: Saturday, June 18<br \/>\nArtist\u2019s talk at 3 pm, reception 4-6pm<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/theseductionofgalileo3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-363\" title=\"The Seduction of Galileo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/theseductionofgalileo3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><strong>MERCER UNION<br \/>\nA Centre for Contemporary Art<\/strong><br \/>\n1286 Bloor Street West,<br \/>\nToronto, Ontario M6H 1N9<br \/>\nT: 416-536-2955<br \/>\nE: <a href=\"mailto:info@mercerunion.org\">info@mercerunion.org<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercerunion.org\">www.mercerunion.org<\/a><br \/>\nHours: Tues-Sat 11-6<\/p>\n<p>International artist Mir is interested in the specific dynamics of technologies. Her new work is inspired by Galileo Galilei\u2019s experiments with gravity. Mir in a gravel lot will perform a gravitational feat on her own \u2013 the stacking of a single column. Mir is concerned with the space of play that opens when failure is permanent. It is an experiment for experiment\u2019s sake, for the sheer joy of watching the tower to be built and topple over and over again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><B>June 18 \u2013 August 6, 2011<br \/><\/B><br \/>\nOpening: Saturday, June 18<br \/>\nArtist\u2019s talk at 3 pm, reception 4-6pm<\/p>\n<p>MERCER UNION<br \/>\nA Centre for Contemporary Art<\/b><\/p>\n<p>International artist Mir is interested in the specific dynamics of technologies. Her new work is inspired by Galileo Galilei\u2019s experiments with gravity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=516\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-listings_archive","tag-mercer-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2433,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions\/2433"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}