{"id":768,"date":"2011-12-13T00:11:37","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T05:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=768"},"modified":"2026-10-03T15:24:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T14:24:56","slug":"gilbert-george-the-singing-sculpture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=768","title":{"rendered":"Gilbert &#038; George -The Singing Sculpture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvblog.org\/movies\/09_2006\/The_Singing_Sculpture.mp4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dvblog.org\/wp-content\/images\/Gilbert_George.jpg\" alt=\"inwhatevertime\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvblog.org\/movies\/09_2006\/The_Singing_Sculpture.mp4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Singing Sculpture (2010, 3MB, 41 sec.)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Singing Sculpture documents one of Gilbert &#038; George&#8217;s most famous &#8220;living sculpture&#8221; pieces.<br \/>\nCovered in multicolored bronze paint, the artists sing and interchange parts of the English<br \/>\nmusic hall standard &#8220;Underneath the Arches.&#8221; Through their stylized performance,<br \/>\nGilbert &#038; George deliberately blur the lines between life and art, reality and contrivance.<br \/>\nThis ambiguity does not rely on a transformation from living to sculptural form. On the contrary,<br \/>\nthey have merged the two in order to obliterate, rather than emphasize, the distinctions between life and art.&#8221; &#8211; Walker Art Center<br \/>\nfrom <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vdb.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Video Data Bank<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Singing Sculpture (2010, 3MB, 41 sec.) &#8220;Singing Sculpture documents one of Gilbert &#038; George&#8217;s most famous &#8220;living sculpture&#8221; pieces. Covered in multicolored bronze paint, the artists sing and interchange parts of the English music hall standard &#8220;Underneath the Arches.&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=768\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,33,14,37,31,29,43,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-conceptual","category-experimental","category-historical","category-music-video","category-performance","category-portraiture","category-strange"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=768"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11790,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions\/11790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}