{"id":570,"date":"1994-09-28T22:24:17","date_gmt":"1994-09-29T02:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/?p=570"},"modified":"2024-12-26T15:36:17","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T19:36:17","slug":"fan-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/fan-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Fan Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fanClub.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Fan Club\" width=\"750\" height=\"473\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-899\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fanClub.jpg 750w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fanClub-590x372.jpg 590w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fanClub-700x441.jpg 700w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fanClub-150x95.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><br \/>\n1994<br \/>\nash wood, blood on Chinese silk, ink on paper<br \/>\n42 inches x 66 inches x 3 inches (framed)<\/p>\n<p>A baseball bat sliced into fan-like sections and reconstructed with silk and blood. This object was conceived to commemorate the tenth anniversary of Vincent Chin&#8217;s death. Closed, it maintains a sport and American persona. When opened, it is transformed into a fan stained with blood in the form of another national<br \/>\ninsignia. Mistaken identity based on stereotypes and economic and nationalistic paranoia are components in this weapon\/ tool\/ object &#8211; for sport, and in this country.<\/p>\n<p>Vincent Chin, June 19, 1982<\/p>\n<p>Chinese American engineer Vincent Chin was bludgeoned with a baseball bat by two white autoworkers who shouted, \u201cIt&#8217;s because of you motherfucking Japs we&#8217;re out of work!\u201d Chin died on June 23rd. The killers were sentenced to three years probation and a $3,000 fine after the trial. A subsequent conviction and a federal civil rights prosecution were overturned on appeal. Neither killer ever served a day in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1994 ash wood, blood on Chinese silk, ink on paper 42 inches x 66 inches x 3 inches (framed) A baseball bat sliced into fan-like sections and reconstructed with silk and blood. This object was conceived to commemorate the tenth anniversary of Vincent Chin&#8217;s death. Closed, it maintains a sport and American persona. When opened, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,41,26,73,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-3d","category-sculpture","category-themes","category-violence","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570","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=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3146,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions\/3146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}