{"id":275806,"date":"2009-12-23T16:40:45","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T16:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2009\/12\/23\/the-rumpus-international-rivers-interviews\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T16:41:08","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T16:41:08","slug":"the-rumpus-international-rivers-interviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2009\/12\/23\/the-rumpus-international-rivers-interviews\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rumpus International Rivers Interviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>The International Rivers Interview Series was born of two unrelated events. The first was a Roni Horn exhibit I saw some years back in New York featuring the work Still Water (The River Thames, For Example). Horn framed multiple close-up shots of the Thames passing through central London and approached the river with a number of questions. I remember Horn asking, \u2018What is the color of water?\u2019 and the elegant simplicity of that question struck me. One answer is that it has no color, that water is a body that either reflects its surroundings by throwing back a visual reply or absorbing organic matter. Water is, Horn later said, \u201ca master chameleon. Or the ultimate mime.\u201d Could rivers like the Thames, I wondered, reflect more than mud, trees and bridges, but history and culture too?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>They&#8217;ll be interviewing four writers: Sasa Stanisic, Gy\u00f6rgy Dragom\u00e1n, Dumitru Tsepeneag, and our own <a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.openletterbooks.org\/authors\/1-ugresic\">Dubravka Ugresic<\/a>. The first interview, with Gy\u00f6rgy Dragom\u00e1n, <a href=\"http:\/\/therumpus.net\/2009\/12\/the-rumpus-international-rivers-interview-1-gyorgy-dragoman-on-the-danube\/?full=yes\">is up now<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>An idea that&#8217;s definitely worth keeping up with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Rivers Interview Series was born of two unrelated events. The first was a Roni Horn exhibit I saw some years back in New York featuring the work Still Water (The River Thames, For Example). Horn framed multiple close-up shots of the Thames passing through central London and approached the river with a number [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[2186,5716,2136,20376,10716,29796],"class_list":["post-275806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-dubravka-ugresic","tag-dumitru-tsepeneag","tag-ejvl","tag-gyorgy-dragoman","tag-sasa-stanisic","tag-the-rumpus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349826,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275806\/revisions\/349826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}