{"id":265,"date":"2011-10-15T11:13:15","date_gmt":"2011-10-15T10:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/?p=265"},"modified":"2022-11-12T20:46:09","modified_gmt":"2022-11-12T19:46:09","slug":"the-salon-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/the-salon-project\/","title":{"rendered":"the salon project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have just left Edinburgh, after opening <em>The Salon Project &#8211;<\/em>&nbsp;my second collaboration with Stewart Laing, and his company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.untitledprojects.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Untitled Projects<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have built and structured somewhere, a specifically temporary place, that might context and sustain the immersive social gathering of seventy five fully costumed spectators and participants &#8211; each individually fitted from a vast wardrobe of period dress &#8211; across a three hour salon event of proposition, recital, discourse and conversation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, in this case, I built light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/media\/laing\/salon\/salon-still01.jpg\" alt=\"Salon still #1\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/media\/laing\/salon\/salon-still02.jpg\" alt=\"Salon still #2\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/media\/laing\/salon\/salon-still03.jpg\" alt=\"Salon still #3\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Images: Rose English with audience members and pianist&nbsp;Ed Cohen, captured by the project\u2019s photographer Tommy Ga-Ken Wan, on the evening the salon first opened its doors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have just left Edinburgh, after opening The Salon Project &#8211;&nbsp;my second collaboration with Stewart Laing, and his company Untitled Projects. We have built and structured somewhere, a specifically temporary place, that might context and sustain the immersive social gathering of seventy five fully costumed spectators and participants &#8211; each individually fitted from a vast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collaborations","category-untitled-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","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=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2425,"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions\/2425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}