{"id":1142,"date":"2021-02-22T11:31:36","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T11:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/?p=1142"},"modified":"2021-02-22T11:31:36","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T11:31:36","slug":"a-new-exhibition-in-the-toilet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/a-new-exhibition-in-the-toilet\/","title":{"rendered":"a new exhibition in the toilet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toilets are great places for art; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.magdalenamuenchen.de\/love-from-the-toilet-das-klohauschen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">some of my best friends are toilet artists<\/a> and one of my favourite art-toilets is <a href=\"http:\/\/das-klohaeuschen.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Das KloH\u00e4uschen<\/a>. Just the other day I was at an online performance where the artist was performing from her toilet. Toilets are places of peace and contemplation, as well as surprises and discovery &#8211; perfect for creating and interacting with art.<\/p>\n<p>My own humble toilet features a changing postcard exhibition. Well, to be honest, &#8220;changing&#8221; was becoming a bit of an exaggeration as it featured the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mehrangarh.org\/collection\/paintings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">royal paintings of Mehrangharh Fort<\/a> in Jodhpur and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cindysherman.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cindy Sherman<\/a> for almost five years &#8211; an unusual combination that arose from our travels and cultural encounters of 2016. Having thoroughly contemplated Cindy Sherman&#8217;s chameleon-like visage along with the sensuous gardens and esoteric yoga images from early 19th century India, we are ready for a change of exhibition.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1143\" src=\"http:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/toilet_gallery_1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"toilet gallery\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" \/>The toilet now features the work of Canadian artist <a href=\"https:\/\/lindaduvall.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Linda Duvall<\/a>, whose work &#8220;exists at the intersection of collaboration, performance and conversation&#8221;. In her project &#8220;Getting to know you better&#8221;, I am a recipient of postcards from her which evoke the natural environment where she lives in Saskatoon. Each postcard has a photo on the front, and on the back a short poem or text from a walk or encounter in the environment. In this way, I catch glimpses of wildlife, flora and weather along with snatches of thoughts and observations. Little pearls from a place I have never been but am getting to know.<\/p>\n<p>So far I&#8217;ve received five cards. I don&#8217;t know how many there will be. The first two featured snowy landscapes, the most recent shows green buds. I am enjoying sitting on the toilet and contemplating these small windows into another world that is making the same transition from winter to spring that is happening outside my windows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After five years of Cindy Sherman and the royal paintings of Mehrangarh Fort, a new exhibitoin of postcards from Canadian artist Linda Duvall has opened in our toilet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1144,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exhibition","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1145,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions\/1145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}