{"id":1203,"date":"1993-01-02T23:50:38","date_gmt":"1993-01-03T03:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/?p=1203"},"modified":"2012-03-23T18:22:01","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T22:22:01","slug":"night-rap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/night-rap\/","title":{"rendered":"Night Rap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/nightRap.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Night Rap\" width=\"750\" height=\"377\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/nightRap.jpg 750w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/nightRap-590x297.jpg 590w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/nightRap-700x352.jpg 700w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/nightRap-150x75.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><br \/>\n1993<br \/>\npolycarbide plastic, steel, wireless transmitter, microphone element, batteries<br \/>\n24 x 11 3\/16 x 5 1\/2 inches<br \/>\nedition of 13<\/p>\n<p><em>Night Rap<\/em> is a symbiotic mutation that can reaffirm a condition of choice.<\/p>\n<p><em>Night Rap<\/em> is an actual enforcement officer&#8217;s nightstick (MONADNOCK PR-24), beheaded and disemboweled, then reanimated and retrofitted with the electronic intestinal circuitry of a professional entertainer&#8217;s wireless transmitting microphone (Audio Technica ATW-32\u00ae). A hand-formed, nickel-plated microphone head of perforated steel recaps the severed six inches of black polycarbide and protects the new brain, thus returning full enforcement function to the stick.<\/p>\n<p>As a weapon\/tool hybrid, this object brings instruments of power into a new form. The policeman&#8217;s nightstick is a symbol of authoritarian force loaded with potential for brutality and physical control. The wireless microphone is the entertainer&#8217;s choice that arms the voice with amplification and offers physical freedom to the user. This combined option destabilizes the single-minded path that specialized tools can offer.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/nightrap_1993_web.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Night Rap (w\/ stand)\" width=\"494\" height=\"750\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/nightrap_1993_web.jpg 494w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/nightrap_1993_web-99x150.jpg 99w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 494px) 100vw, 494px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1993 polycarbide plastic, steel, wireless transmitter, microphone element, batteries 24 x 11 3\/16 x 5 1\/2 inches edition of 13 Night Rap is a symbiotic mutation that can reaffirm a condition of choice. Night Rap is an actual enforcement officer&#8217;s nightstick (MONADNOCK PR-24), beheaded and disemboweled, then reanimated and retrofitted with the electronic intestinal circuitry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,40,33,41,75,26,73,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-3d","category-multiples","category-politics","category-sculpture","category-surrealism","category-themes","category-violence","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1203"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3125,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions\/3125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}