{"id":5310,"date":"2011-01-21T18:00:44","date_gmt":"2011-01-22T00:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthemake.org\/2011\/01\/21\/our-demons\/"},"modified":"2011-01-21T18:00:44","modified_gmt":"2011-01-22T00:00:44","slug":"our-demons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevisualist.org\/2011\/01\/our-demons\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Demons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Demons possess us: they dissolve the boundaries between the self and the non-self, the inside and the outside. In ancient Greece the term \u201cdaimon\u201d was used for different kinds of supernatural creature, super- or sub-human, familiar spirits that were not necessarily bad. Since then the term demon has come to describe the evil or unclean spirits that populate many religious traditions. The idea that demons are more metaphorical than real might be viewed as a mark of modernity. But are they really no longer real to us? If I \u201chave demons\u201d \u2014 addictions, obsessions, perversions \u2014 they\u2019re inside me, but I don\u2019t control them, or at least it often doesn\u2019t feel like I do. We project our demons onto others, and turn them into concrete figures of evil. Society has its demons \u2014 abjected identities like terrorist, sex offender, bitch, gang member, queer. What do they say about us and our subjectivities and identities? Are we our demons?<\/p>\n<p>This exhibition is co-curated by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reneestout.com\/\">Renee Stout<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/home.uchicago.edu\/~rezorach\/\">Rebecca Zorach<\/a> in conjunction with their CAA Centennial Panel, <em>Our Demons<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Work by Carol A. Beane, John W. Ford, Maria J\u00f6nsson, Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier, Anne Elizabeth Moore, Mary Patten, Michael B. Platt, Laurie Jo Reynolds, roycrosse and travis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Demons possess us: they dissolve the boundaries between the self and the non-self, the inside and the outside. In ancient Greece the term \u201cdaimon\u201d was used for different kinds of supernatural creature, super- or sub-human, familiar spirits that were not necessarily bad. Since then the term demon has come to describe the evil or unclean<a href=\"http:\/\/thevisualist.org\/2011\/01\/our-demons\/\" class=\"read-more\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[110,37],"class_list":["post-5310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reception","tag-dova-temporary","tag-hyde-park","cat-5-id"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thevisualist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thevisualist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thevisualist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thevisualist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thevisualist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thevisualist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thevisualist.org\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thevisualist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thevisualist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thevisualist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}