{"id":1022,"date":"2009-09-07T01:32:17","date_gmt":"2009-09-07T08:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/09\/public_art_by_a_car_company\/"},"modified":"2009-09-07T01:32:17","modified_gmt":"2009-09-07T08:32:17","slug":"public_art_by_a_car_company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/09\/public_art_by_a_car_company.html","title":{"rendered":"Public art in Seattle by a car company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No artists get credit for an installation titled <a href=\"http:\/\/pressroom.toyota.com\/pr\/tms\/toyota\/seattle-solar-flowers-bloom-in-100342.aspx\"><i>Solar Seating Power<\/i><\/a> at Westlake Park.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"solarseatingflws.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/solarseatingflws.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;\" width=\"316\" height=\"189\" \/><\/span>The coy blooms came to town to promote the launch of the 2010 Prius. Seattle park administrators carefully scrutinize any projects artists want to install in a city park. Did a car company receive the same scrutiny?&nbsp; The good news is, the dippy flowers have a short shelf life. Jen Graves called them <a href=\"http:\/\/slog.thestranger.com\/slog\/archives\/2009\/08\/28\/another-reason-why-temporary-public-art-is-great\">terrible<\/a>, which just about covers it. <\/p>\n<p>Looking at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jrbdzPk2Xi0\">YouTube video<\/a> below, however, featuring the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/stage\/2009\/sep\/06\/michael-clarke-luke-jennings\">Michael Clark Company<\/a>, I know one thing that could have saved the day. Dancers. Check the stage set. It&#8217;s a <i>Solar Seating Power<\/i> twin.<\/p>\n<p>(Thanks for the video link to <a href=\"http:\/\/dimensionsarevariable.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/interview-tim-marsden.html\">Tim Marsden<\/a>, who described the piece as &#8220;Beckett meets German Expressionism via the unlikely route of Post Punk and classical ballet.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/jrbdzPk2Xi0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/jrbdzPk2Xi0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/object><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No artists get credit for an installation titled Solar Seating Power at Westlake Park. The coy blooms came to town to promote the launch of the 2010 Prius. Seattle park administrators carefully scrutinize any projects artists want to install in a city park. Did a car company receive the same scrutiny?&nbsp; The good news is, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1022","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}