{"id":128,"date":"2016-10-23T10:32:55","date_gmt":"2016-10-23T10:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juanmagonzalez.com\/walkinginthegap\/?p=128"},"modified":"2017-07-12T07:57:05","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T07:57:05","slug":"apostlahastar-pa-gotland-summer-2016-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juanmagonzalez.com\/walkinginthegap\/?p=128","title":{"rendered":"Apostlah\u00e4star P\u00e5 Gotland. Summer 2016 Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A defining feature of the current society is how we spend the vacation time. Travelling has become a popular hedonistic practice for escaping the environment of the everyday life. This temporary respite has been interpreted by scholars as a metaphorical pilgrimage. Under this analogy, the tourist becomes a &#8216;secular pilgrim&#8217; questing for a no-quotidian experience and seeking a punctuation mark in his\/her biography. This recreational demand is echoed by the tourism industry that includes in its holiday packages sacred routes -like <em>Camino de Santiago<\/em> in Spain and <em>S:t Olavsleden<\/em> in Sweden-Norway- and secular modern pilgrimages -like <em>Elvis Presley&#8217;s grave<\/em> at Graceland or &#8216;<em>Trees for Life Day<\/em>&#8216; in Flevoland-.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;<strong>Apostlah\u00e4star p\u00e5 Gotland<\/strong>&#8216; is an explorational art project that aims to reflect a contemporary flow of leisure by inverting the terms: what happens if an inward-oriented journey is created for a well-known touristic site? The methodology used to reach this &#8216;ritual path&#8217; is to create a walking route using the 93 Medieval churches of Gotland as path-markers. Every ritual follows a narrative structure, based on ancestral symbols of Gotland. The route will be inspired by trojaborg labyrinth and the local iconography of neolithic, viking and Medieval culture.<\/p>\n<p>Using my art practice as an embodiment of metaphors, Gotland is an isolated piece of land surrounded by water, just as a space of leisure &#8211; or a temporary gap &#8211; is enclosed by everyday life. Walking in a labyrinth path becomes a modern transcendental journey and a reflection of human behaviour in the shifting world in which we live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juanma Gonz\u00e1lez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":129,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juanmagonzalez.com\/walkinginthegap\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juanmagonzalez.com\/walkinginthegap\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juanmagonzalez.com\/walkinginthegap\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juanmagonzalez.com\/walkinginthegap\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juanmagonzalez.com\/walkinginthegap\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/juanmagonzalez.com\/walkinginthegap\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317,"href":"https:\/\/juanmagonzalez.com\/walkinginthegap\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juanmagonzalez.com\/walkinginthegap\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juanmagonzalez.com\/walkinginthegap\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juanmagonzalez.com\/walkinginthegap\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juanmagonzalez.com\/walkinginthegap\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}