{"id":16052,"date":"2020-11-20T13:16:20","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T05:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jcg.curtin.edu.au\/?p=16052"},"modified":"2020-11-20T14:07:26","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T06:07:26","slug":"16052-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umsites.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/2020\/11\/16052-2\/","title":{"rendered":"LISTEN: Abdul-Rahman Abdullah Floor Talk 12-8-20"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: #ffffff;background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top: 0px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\" style=\"transform:translate3d(0,0,0);\"><p>Abdul-Rahman Abdullah (b.1977) is an Australian installation artist and sculptor whose practice explores the different ways that memory can inhabit and emerge from familial spaces. His work has been described as <em>magic realism<\/em>, creating poetic interventions with the built environment. Living and working in rural Western Australia, he provides unique perspectives across intersecting communities, foregrounding shared understandings of individual identity and new mythologies in a cross-cultural context. Abdul-Rahman provides insights into his artistic practice and the meaning behind his amazing sculpture, <em>500 Books<\/em>, 2018, a highlight of the John Curtin Gallery\u2019s 50<em>fifty<\/em>:2020 exhibition.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-soundcloud\"><iframe scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/user-32751144\/abdul-rahman-abdullah-2-9-2020&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=true&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;visual=false&amp;color=ff7700\" title=\"soundcloud\"><\/iframe><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":16053,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,137,147,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-50fifty2020-pp","category-audio","category-floor-talk","category-jcghome"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umsites.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umsites.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umsites.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umsites.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umsites.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16052"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/umsites.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16055,"href":"https:\/\/umsites.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16052\/revisions\/16055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umsites.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umsites.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umsites.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umsites.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}