{"id":64,"date":"2010-03-16T08:57:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T08:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.otago.ac.nz\/hocken\/2010\/03\/16\/eddie-clemens-delusional-architecture-exhibition-at-hocken-gallery\/"},"modified":"2014-12-05T21:26:05","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T21:26:05","slug":"eddie-clemens-delusional-architecture-exhibition-at-hocken-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/thehockenblog\/eddie-clemens-delusional-architecture-exhibition-at-hocken-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Clemens: Delusional Architecture exhibition at Hocken Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms';font-size: small\">Have you seen our current exhibition yet?<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms',fantasy;font-size: small\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms';font-size: small\"><i>Eddie Clemens: Delusional Architecture<\/i> is on display until 24 April at the Hocken Gallery. E<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;line-height: 18px\"><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms'\">ddie Clemens was the 2009 University of Otago Frances Hodgkins Fellow. His choice of title for this exhibition, a phrase taken from the science-fiction movie <i>Terminator II<\/i> (1991), hints at his recent examination of how physical surroundings affect human behavior. This concern rests alongside his long-held fascination in the vagaries of consumerism. His witty sculptures flirt with the science fiction genre and technology by employing electronic circuits, LEDs, cool fluorescent tubes and hidden miniature fans. Applied to sculpture, these special effects are fun to look at while they also draw our attention to our increasing use of screen-based entertainment, and, our increasing desire for daily escapism. Clemens&#8217;s art points to a commonality between architectural structures, shopping and computer technology &#8211; they all have the ability to hold us emotionally captive. One of my favourite works is the two <span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms',-webkit-fantasy\"><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms',fantasy\">brooms with bristles made from fibre optic threads that glow in a changing rainbow assortment of colours.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms',-webkit-fantasy;font-size: small\"><span style=\"line-height: 18px\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms',-webkit-fantasy;font-size: small\"><span style=\"line-height: 18px\">Come and see the show and let us know what you think.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you seen our current exhibition yet? Eddie Clemens: Delusional Architecture is on display until 24 April at the Hocken Gallery. Eddie Clemens was the 2009 University of Otago Frances Hodgkins Fellow. His choice of title for this exhibition, a phrase taken from the science-fiction movie Terminator II (1991), hints at his recent examination of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14625,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15421,15409],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibitions-and-events","category-university-of-otago-fellowships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/thehockenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/thehockenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/thehockenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/thehockenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14625"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/thehockenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/thehockenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/thehockenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/thehockenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/thehockenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}