{"id":11401,"date":"2020-01-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/government-appointment-phalluses-of-tinder\/"},"modified":"2020-09-29T13:19:22","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T11:19:22","slug":"government-appointment-phalluses-of-tinder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/government-appointment-phalluses-of-tinder\/","title":{"rendered":"Government Appointment Phalluses of Tinder"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11402,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"project":[451,506,452],"project_type":[725,734],"class_list":["post-11401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","project-web-residencies","project-calls-2019","project-violent-consumer-media","project_type-formats","project_type-shortlist"],"acf":{"bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","custom_color_css_variable":"","content_type":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"Throughout my career in the online dating market I\u2019ve stumbled upon all kinds of profiles, from my professors, to catfish, to the fetishizing of military power and gun girth. Granted I live in Brooklyn and rarely go anywhere besides California and the occasional trip overseas, I recently discovered a \u00bbtype\u00ab of man I had only heard horror stories about. As I swiped left, left, left, left, right, I was a cyberflaneur roaming past artist types, financiers, socialites, but having never Tindered outside of a major city, I was shocked to find\u2026 the \u00bbtype\u00ab of man who poses with a gun.\r\n\r\nAs gun ranges have begun to ban customers from taking selfies with weapons and instagram and bumble cracks down on images containing vaping and gun violence, I began to see the amount of Tinder Profiles photos of military men posing with guns in close proximity to me. Even Russia\u2019s Ministry of Internal Affairs unveiled the safety selfie campaign, a public health program to reduce deaths and injuries caused by people taking dangerous selfie photos while holding guns. Each man pictured grasps his government-appointed phallus in order to trigger sublimated hyper-masculinity within their potential matches.\r\n\r\nIn this project, I will explore the dynamic of this glorification or sexualized attraction to constructs of power like the military and guns by having the men get their picture taken and read their bios. Together a platoon sergeant, an electrician, and a self-proclaimed army anime character flash their loaded \u00bbmanhood\u00ab as they recite their self-written narratives to the genders they will admit to flirting with."}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"project","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project?post=11401"},{"taxonomy":"project_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_type?post=11401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}