{"id":1190,"date":"2014-08-28T10:29:49","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T10:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=1190"},"modified":"2014-08-07T10:42:20","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T10:42:20","slug":"throwback-thursday-ladyapplicant-the-lazarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=1190","title":{"rendered":"Throwback Thursday: Lady\/Applicant: The Lazarus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This week we journey back to 2011 to look at a multimedia installation on Sylvie Plath by Arts &amp; Computational Technology PhD Chris Girard.<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/11384661?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=ffffff\" height=\"398\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Lady\/Applicant: The Lazarus<\/em> is an experiment in new media poetics that strategically re-imagines the authorial identity of renowned confessional poet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/bio\/sylvia-plath\">Sylvia Plath<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-1191\" alt=\"slowtorise\" src=\"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/slowtorise-300x180.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"144\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/slowtorise-300x180.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/slowtorise.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By presenting collaged audio and video recordings of audio and places associated with her poetry, the project radically questions the power traditionally associated with the author.<\/p>\n<p>Plath continues to be cast as a depressed wife and mother; the imperatives of this role still weighing heavy upon the production of her biography and the reception of her work.<\/p>\n<p>The collaging of audio and video clips reembodies Plath as an omnipresent ghost and shifts meaning away from an exclusive association with the tragically depressed, the pathologized Plath.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/research.gold.ac.uk\/7993\/\">Read Chris Girard&#8217;s final doctoral thesis\u00a0<em>Lady\/Applicant: The Lazarus<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Chris Girard is now an experimental collage poet based in Los Angeles whose work explores embodiment and identity. <a href=\"http:\/\/chrisgirard.net\">Visit Chris&#8217; website<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week we journey back to 2011 to look at a multimedia installation on Sylvie Plath by Arts &amp; Computational Technology PhD Chris Girard. Lady\/Applicant: The Lazarus is an experiment in new media poetics that strategically re-imagines the authorial identity of renowned confessional poet Sylvia Plath. By presenting collaged audio and video recordings of audio &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=1190\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Throwback Thursday: Lady\/Applicant: The Lazarus<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[108,113,15],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1190"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1193,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions\/1193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}