{"id":1225,"date":"2013-07-06T18:25:24","date_gmt":"2013-07-06T17:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/?p=1225"},"modified":"2022-11-12T21:14:51","modified_gmt":"2022-11-12T20:14:51","slug":"the-dyas-sisters-reading-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/the-dyas-sisters-reading-room\/","title":{"rendered":"the dyas sisters \/ the reading room"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Emptying my camera this morning, after returning from an intense and possibly overdue <a href=\"http:\/\/qtine.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Quarantine<\/a> gathering in Manchester, I first pulled out this short series of monochrome images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Together for ten days, in a stripped bare main-stage auditorium, with a twelve metre projection screen, a collection of old chairs, a photocopier, and as many floodlights as I could get my hands on, we have been opening up elements of <em>The Dyas Sisters<\/em> project &#8211; a project initiated by tasking Grace and Veronica Dyas, sisters from Dublin, with the attempt to describe everything that they could remember happening within their lifetime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In conclusion, we shaped a place and event to mark the end of that task and the publication of the resulting book &#8211; framing a meeting with its first public reading, within some of the other possibilities and elements that were also generated across the process&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/media\/quarantine\/tds\/b+w\/tds01.jpg\" alt=\"The Dyas Sisters \/ The Reading Room : #1\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/media\/quarantine\/tds\/b+w\/tds02.jpg\" alt=\"The Dyas Sisters \/ The Reading Room : #2\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>img alt=&#8221;The Dyas Sisters \/ The Reading Room : #3&#8243; src=&#8221;http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/media\/quarantine\/tds\/b+w\/tds03.jpg&#8221;&gt;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/media\/quarantine\/tds\/b+w\/tds04.jpg\" alt=\"The Dyas Sisters \/ The Reading Room : #4\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/media\/quarantine\/tds\/b+w\/tds05.jpg\" alt=\"The Dyas Sisters \/ The Reading Room : #5\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/media\/quarantine\/tds\/b+w\/tds06.jpg\" alt=\"The Dyas Sisters \/ The Reading Room : #6\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/media\/quarantine\/tds\/b+w\/tds07.jpg\" alt=\"The Dyas Sisters \/ The Reading Room : #7\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Additional colour images are available in the archive [ <a href=\"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/shame\/archive03.html\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a> ]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Images: Mike Brookes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emptying my camera this morning, after returning from an intense and possibly overdue Quarantine gathering in Manchester, I first pulled out this short series of monochrome images. Together for ten days, in a stripped bare main-stage auditorium, with a twelve metre projection screen, a collection of old chairs, a photocopier, and as many floodlights as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collaborations","category-quarantine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1225"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2453,"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225\/revisions\/2453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}