{"id":18927,"date":"2013-12-19T01:49:47","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T01:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/a-few-minutes-after-i-gave-this-address-an\/"},"modified":"2013-12-19T01:49:47","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T01:49:47","slug":"a-few-minutes-after-i-gave-this-address-an","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/a-few-minutes-after-i-gave-this-address-an\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>A few minutes after I gave this address, an audience member approached me privately and asked whether I was a Marxist. Surprised, I asked him why he thought I might be. He said it was because I had \u201creduced\u201d the lofty subject of art to a mere question of labour. (Paraphrasing mine.)<\/p>\n<p>To him I\u2019d like to say, Mister, I am an artist who supports herself on the strength of her art and her ability to keep producing it. You\u2019d be hard put to convince any artist that art isn\u2019t work. And you can\u2019t convince me that there\u2019s no art to labour. You can\u2019t convince me that art and the labour that creates it can be easily teased apart and considered as separate objects, and you sure as hell can\u2019t convince me that the latter is somehow base and impoverished in comparison to the former.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>Nalo Hopkinson, \u201cReport from Planet Midnight\u201d (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/thestoutorialist.tumblr.com\/\">thestoutorialist<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few minutes after I gave this address, an audience member approached me privately and asked whether I was a Marxist. Surprised, I asked him why he thought I might be. He said it was because I had \u201creduced\u201d the lofty subject of art to a mere question of labour. (Paraphrasing mine.) To him I\u2019d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_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":[10],"tags":[101,548,386],"class_list":["post-18927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","tag-art","tag-artwork","tag-work","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-4Vh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}