{"id":7621,"date":"2011-02-09T00:02:47","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T05:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=7621"},"modified":"2026-10-26T12:33:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T12:33:04","slug":"kma-flock-in-liverpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=7621","title":{"rendered":"KMA &#8211; &#8216;Flock&#8217; in Liverpool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvblog.org\/movies\/02_2011\/flock\/flock.mp4\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dvblog.org\/wp-content\/images\/flock.jpg\" height=\"180\" alt=\"device activated\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvblog.org\/movies\/02_2011\/flock\/flock.mp4\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Flock&#8217; in Liverpool (2008, 152MB, 2:44 min)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>How many times do you read artists&#8217; descriptions of their own work<br \/>\nand  think <b>&#8216;naaaaa&#8230;&#8217;<\/b> totally failing to recognise their stated ambitions<br \/>\nin what appears to you to be, at best, somewhat pedestrian and at<br \/>\nworst, a total disconnect from what they write.<br \/>\nThis is the complete opposite of that, utterly living up to the makers&#8217;<br \/>\nstated intentions, and an absolute spine tingler to watch even through<br \/>\nthe distance of video documentation.<br \/>\nCheck out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kma.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">KMA site<\/a> for a complete description of the piece,<br \/>\nan <em>&#8216;interactive light installation&#8217;<\/em> based around <b>Swan Lake<\/b>,<br \/>\nbut not until you&#8217;ve watched this beautiful bit of documentary.<br \/>\nParticularly touching is the genuine joy in participation it evokes. <\/p>\n<p>Very hard to pull off and very moving to see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Flock&#8217; in Liverpool (2008, 152MB, 2:44 min) How many times do you read artists&#8217; descriptions of their own work and think &#8216;naaaaa&#8230;&#8217; totally failing to recognise their stated ambitions in what appears to you to be, at best, somewhat pedestrian &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=7621\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,93,17,33,40,26,76,14,51,112,68,59,64,29,86,20,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-collaboration","category-community","category-conceptual","category-dance","category-documentary-arts","category-event","category-experimental","category-installation","category-light","category-music","category-newmediaart","category-participatory","category-performance","category-place","category-tech","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7621"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12243,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7621\/revisions\/12243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}