{"id":1568,"date":"1994-01-10T22:36:39","date_gmt":"1994-01-11T02:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/?p=1568"},"modified":"2012-05-23T14:47:54","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T18:47:54","slug":"spin-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/spin-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Spin Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Spin-control.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Spin Control\" width=\"478\" height=\"750\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1570\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Spin-control.jpg 478w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Spin-control-96x150.jpg 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\" \/><br \/>\n1994<br \/>\ngun-blued steel, aluminum, motor and electric wiring, wood, glass, surgical silk, plastic<br \/>\nbox: 22 3\/4 x 22 1\/4 x 6 1\/4 inches<\/p>\n<p><em>Spin Control<\/em> is a work about the tenuous stability of inner city race relations. Riots most often occur during the sweltering heat of summer and in neighborhoods where the average resident can only sit close to a window fan to escape the heat. In this installation, the fan is severed along the lines of the city plans of neighborhoods in Detroit, MI, Miami, FL, (Crown Heights) Brooklyn, NY and (South Central) Los Angeles, CA\u2013all sites of major race riots. The blades have been sutured back together, like a wound, creating the appearance of cohesion. Should the heat rise and the fan be plugged in; however, the object could spin out of control and explode into razor sharp shrapnel, revealing the inherent menace of this monstrous, beaten icon. <em>Spin Contro<\/em>l is loaded with references to the battered condition of urban neighborhoods, the broken spirit of weary inhabitants, and the lack of fiscal attention to the special needs of our cities. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/spin-control-dt.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Spin Control (detail)\" width=\"750\" height=\"528\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1569\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/spin-control-dt.jpg 750w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/spin-control-dt-590x415.jpg 590w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/spin-control-dt-700x493.jpg 700w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/spin-control-dt-150x106.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1994 gun-blued steel, aluminum, motor and electric wiring, wood, glass, surgical silk, plastic box: 22 3\/4 x 22 1\/4 x 6 1\/4 inches Spin Control is a work about the tenuous stability of inner city race relations. Riots most often occur during the sweltering heat of summer and in neighborhoods where the average resident can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,59,33,41,26,73,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-3d","category-mapping","category-politics","category-sculpture","category-themes","category-violence","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568","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=1568"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3313,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568\/revisions\/3313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}