{"id":2861,"date":"2014-07-26T16:11:09","date_gmt":"2014-07-26T16:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ima.or.at\/?page_id=2861"},"modified":"2014-07-26T16:13:20","modified_gmt":"2014-07-26T16:13:20","slug":"while-my-guitar-gently-sleeps-seppo-gruendler-a","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/archiv.ima.or.at\/en\/ima-reloaded-intime-raeume\/10-hotelzimmer\/while-my-guitar-gently-sleeps-seppo-gruendler-a\/","title":{"rendered":"While my guitar gently sleeps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/seppo-gruendler\/?lang=en\"><strong>Seppo Gr\u00fcndler (A)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2862\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_3251-1w.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2862\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_3251-1w.jpg\" alt=\"Hotel Altes Kloster Foto: Lena Tikhonova\" width=\"200\" height=\"270\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2862\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2862\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hotel Altes Kloster<br \/>Foto: Lena Tikhonova<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Electric guitars are sex symbols, fetishes, axes, etc. You play them, burn them, destroy them, smash them. They are given names like Lucille, Laura\u2026 mostly female names because guitar heroes are mostly male, and symbolically they assume the corresponding forms: crosses, arrows, skulls, etc., the body detached from its playing function. In the hotel room the guitar is used pragmatically for practicing and composing; without an audience it reverts to its original function.<\/p>\n<p>In While my Guitar Gently Sleeps the guitar lies abandoned on the bed and reveals its \u201csoul\u201d to the visitors. When touched it reacts frightened and withdraws into silence; undisturbed, it produces sounds \u2013 unobtrusive soft, fragile \u2013 that come from deep within.<\/p>\n<p>Seppo Gr\u00fcndler: electric guitar, amplifier, webcam, electronics.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seppo Gr\u00fcndler (A) Electric guitars are sex symbols, fetishes, axes, etc. You play them, burn them, destroy them, smash them. They are given names like Lucille, Laura\u2026 mostly female names because guitar heroes are mostly male, and symbolically they assume the corresponding forms: crosses, arrows, skulls, etc., the body detached from its playing function. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2696,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archiv.ima.or.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2861"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archiv.ima.or.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archiv.ima.or.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archiv.ima.or.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archiv.ima.or.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2861"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/archiv.ima.or.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2866,"href":"https:\/\/archiv.ima.or.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2861\/revisions\/2866"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archiv.ima.or.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archiv.ima.or.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}