{"id":1907,"date":"2014-09-02T16:47:41","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T14:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vesna-bukovec.net\/eng\/?page_id=1907"},"modified":"2014-09-07T23:04:31","modified_gmt":"2014-09-07T21:04:31","slug":"as-if","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.vesna-bukovec.net\/eng\/projects\/as-if","title":{"rendered":"As if"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Year: 2014<br \/>\nType: collage (digital blow-up, 3 x 2 m)<\/p>\n<p>How can we live in today\u2019s world full of injustice and turbulent events? How can we live and justify our existence and our (in)activity? The news of horrors of war, natural, political and existential disasters make us feel uncomfortable for a moment. But as long as we are not personally affected, this cognitive dissonance is suppressed and we carry with our everyday life as if everything was in order. The neoliberal ideology, our consumerist society and our own psyche extort us into remaining passive and letting things take their own course. I can say ironically that the least we can do is to do nothing at all.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vesna-bukovec.net\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/bukovec_as-if_big.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vesna-bukovec.net\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/bukovec_as-if.jpg\" alt=\"As if\" width=\"450\" height=\"302\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1911\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.vesna-bukovec.net\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/bukovec_as-if.jpg 450w, http:\/\/www.vesna-bukovec.net\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/bukovec_as-if-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vesna-bukovec.net\/eng\/archives\/1898\">Stik\/h<\/a>, F\u00fcrst House, Ptuj, exhibition view, 2014<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vesna-bukovec.net\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/dpv-ptuj01.jpg\" alt=\"Vesna Bukovec, As if, exhibition view\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1926\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.vesna-bukovec.net\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/dpv-ptuj01.jpg 450w, http:\/\/www.vesna-bukovec.net\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/dpv-ptuj01-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vesna-bukovec.net\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/dpv-ptuj03.jpg\" alt=\"Exhibition opening\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1928\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.vesna-bukovec.net\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/dpv-ptuj03.jpg 450w, http:\/\/www.vesna-bukovec.net\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/dpv-ptuj03-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vesna-bukovec.net\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/dpv-ptuj08-foto-matej-pusnik.jpg\" alt=\"Exhibition opening, photo by Matej Pu\u0161nik\" title=\"Photo by Matej Pu\u0161nik\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1925\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.vesna-bukovec.net\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/dpv-ptuj08-foto-matej-pusnik.jpg 450w, http:\/\/www.vesna-bukovec.net\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/dpv-ptuj08-foto-matej-pusnik-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Year: 2014 Type: collage (digital blow-up, 3 x 2 m) How can we live in today\u2019s world full of injustice and turbulent events? How can we live and justify our existence and our (in)activity? The news of horrors of war, natural, political and existential disasters make us feel uncomfortable for a moment. But as long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":26,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vesna-bukovec.net\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1907"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vesna-bukovec.net\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vesna-bukovec.net\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vesna-bukovec.net\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vesna-bukovec.net\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1907"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.vesna-bukovec.net\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1938,"href":"http:\/\/www.vesna-bukovec.net\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1907\/revisions\/1938"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vesna-bukovec.net\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vesna-bukovec.net\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}