{"id":834,"date":"1993-12-14T17:32:32","date_gmt":"1993-12-14T21:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/?p=834"},"modified":"2024-12-26T15:37:18","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T19:37:18","slug":"combo-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/combo-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Combo Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-835\" title=\"Combo Club\" src=\"http:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/comboclub_1993.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/comboclub_1993.jpg 750w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/comboclub_1993-590x419.jpg 590w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/comboclub_1993-700x497.jpg 700w, https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/comboclub_1993-150x107.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\nCombo Club<\/em><br \/>\n1993<br \/>\ntwo colors with a shaped copper plate embossed in heavy Indian handmade paper, printed by Etching Studio, Houston, TX<br \/>\n23 x 30 1\/2 inches<br \/>\nedition of 50<\/p>\n<p>This print illustrates the sculpture <em>Night Rap<\/em>, an actual enforcement officer&#8217;s night stick (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).\u00a0A 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.\u00a0As a weapon\/tool hybrid, this object brings instruments of power into a new formation. 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, which 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><em>Night Rap<\/em> is a symbiotic mutation that can reaffirm a condition of choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Combo Club 1993 two colors with a shaped copper plate embossed in heavy Indian handmade paper, printed by Etching Studio, Houston, TX 23 x 30 1\/2 inches edition of 50 This print illustrates the sculpture Night Rap, an actual enforcement officer&#8217;s night stick (MONADNOCK PR-24) beheaded and disemboweled, then reanimated and retrofitted with the electronic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2d","category-prints"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834","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=834"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3335,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions\/3335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}