{"id":12424,"date":"2017-10-24T20:48:07","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T01:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/?p=12424"},"modified":"2024-09-08T00:50:29","modified_gmt":"2024-09-08T05:50:29","slug":"still-from-spinn-by-shahzia-sikander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/2017\/10\/24\/still-from-spinn-by-shahzia-sikander\/","title":{"rendered":"Still from SpiNN by Shahzia Sikander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistani American artist Shahzia Sikander. Still from SpiNN (2003), Digital Animation with sound, 6:38 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA pun on the news media channel CNN, SpiNN depicts a dense mass of abstracted imagery spiraling inwards, hovering like a swarm of angry black crows or bats. It eventually settles into the image of a traditional Mughal durbar hall incongruously populated by gopi women (devotees of the Hindu god Krishna), whose abstracted black hairdos comprise the central imagery of the work.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistani American artist Shahzia Sikander. Still from SpiNN (2003), Digital Animation with sound, 6:38 minutes. \u201cA pun on the news media channel CNN, SpiNN depicts a dense mass of abstracted imagery spiraling inwards, hovering like a swarm of angry black crows or bats. It eventually settles into the image of a traditional Mughal durbar hall &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/2017\/10\/24\/still-from-spinn-by-shahzia-sikander\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Still from SpiNN by Shahzia Sikander<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,15,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12424"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21528,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12424\/revisions\/21528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}