{"id":1410,"date":"2007-03-13T10:31:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-13T14:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/1410"},"modified":"2007-03-13T10:31:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-13T14:31:00","slug":"voluptuous-panic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/1410","title":{"rendered":"Voluptuous Panic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Perhaps it’s the time change, loss of an hour and all that, but I feel out of sorts this week. Not my usual chipper self. Angry at the computer for failing to entertain me. Bitter about work. Yearning for the freedom to go outside. Desperate to not be trapped inside, feeling futile.<\/p>\n

Having spoken to ‘s boyfriend V. on the weekend about industrial design, and knowing that is studying the same thing, I’ve spent a bit of time investigating how I would choose to design my life, aesthetically, under altered circumstances. If I didn’t have two mortgages. If I was living on my own. If I had time and space and funds to devote to surrounding myself with cool things. <\/p>\n

This week I think I’ll skip my usual posts in favour of a multi-part series on My Alternate Universe.
\nBrace yourself, this is going to be image-heavy. <\/p>\n

Alternate Life, Part 1: Where I would be right now<\/u><\/font>
\nHanging out with in London at the Tate Modern museum, queuing up again and again to ride down Carsten H\u00c3\u00b6ller’s adult-sized slide sculptural installations in Turbine Hall<\/a>, seen below. <\/p>\n

“The experience of sliding is best summed up in a phrase by the French writer Roger Caillois as a ‘voluptuous panic upon an otherwise lucid mind’. The slides are impressive sculptures in their own right, and you don’t have to hurtle down them to appreciate this artwork. What interests H\u00c3\u00b6ller, however, is both the visual spectacle of watching people sliding and the ‘inner spectacle’ experienced by the sliders themselves, the state of simultaneous delight and anxiety that you enter as you descend.”<\/i><\/p>\n

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On the plus side, having spoken to on the phone late last night, I will at least have some company in my blue mood as of next month, when he will be coming up to visit me from New York. For now, I’ll try to focus on Hong Kong with . Soon, soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Perhaps it’s the time change, loss of an hour and all that, but I feel out of sorts this week. Not my usual chipper self. Angry at the computer for failing to entertain me. Bitter about work. Yearning for the freedom to go outside. Desperate to not be trapped inside, feeling futile. Having spoken to […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consciousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}