{"id":136,"date":"2020-06-07T02:25:28","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T02:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sporastudios.org\/flawdio\/?page_id=136"},"modified":"2020-06-07T02:25:28","modified_gmt":"2020-06-07T02:25:28","slug":"between-the-bottomlands-the-world","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sporastudios.org\/flawdio\/between-the-bottomlands-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Between the Bottomlands &#038; the World"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A project by Ryan Griffis &amp; Sarah Ross for <a href=\"http:\/\/regionalrelationships.org\/bottomlands\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Regional Relationships<\/a>.<br>Inspired by the scholarship of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban.uiuc.edu\/faculty\/miraftab\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Faranak Miraftab<\/a>.<br>Featuring a soundtrack by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flawedart.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mark Cooley<\/a>.<br>Visual and audio assistance by Casey Puccini and M. Anthony Reimer.<br>Actors: Karen Alderidge, John Gray, Saren Nofs-Snyder, Yunuen Pardo, Mateo Smith, Eddie Torres<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.regionalrelationships.org\/rr05\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Between the Bottomlands &amp; the World<\/a><\/em> explores Beardstown, IL, a rural Midwestern town of 6000 people&#8211;a place of global exchange and international mobility, inscribed by post-NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) realities. It consists of a series of videos, photographs, exhibitions and narrative writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The video series tells a story of Beardstown in three acts.<br><strong>Act One: <em>Submerging Land<\/em><\/strong>, portrays a landscape massively engineered to redirect water for the production of commodity crops.<br><strong>Act Two: <em>Granular Space<\/em><\/strong>, is a meditation on the movement and scale of the international grain trade&#8211;from one seed to millions of bushels, moved from field, to elevator, to barge, to ocean going vessel.<br><strong>Act Three: <em>Moving Flesh<\/em><\/strong>, chronicles how and why so many people from around the world have come to Beardstown, a formerly all-white, Sundown town of 6000 people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A project by Ryan Griffis &amp; Sarah Ross for Regional Relationships.Inspired by the scholarship of Faranak Miraftab.Featuring a soundtrack by Mark Cooley.Visual and audio assistance [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":137,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sporastudios.org\/flawdio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sporastudios.org\/flawdio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sporastudios.org\/flawdio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sporastudios.org\/flawdio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sporastudios.org\/flawdio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sporastudios.org\/flawdio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138,"href":"https:\/\/sporastudios.org\/flawdio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/136\/revisions\/138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sporastudios.org\/flawdio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sporastudios.org\/flawdio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}