{"id":12239,"date":"2018-03-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/banyan-tree\/"},"modified":"2020-09-29T13:19:13","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T11:19:13","slug":"banyan-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/banyan-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"BANYAN-TREE"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"project":[451,505,465],"project_type":[725,734],"class_list":["post-12239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","project-web-residencies","project-calls-2018","project-ghosted-2018","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":"The \u00bbBanyan-Tree\u00ab is a symbol for \u00bbfamily\u00ab in Indian literature \u2013 a tree, which, after growing into the sky, will let his branch fall to become the root of a new tree. To me it\u2019s also a symbol for the \u00bbIndian diaspora\u00ab \u2013 all the Indians who went to the West \u00bbto get to know the its methods\u00ab (as my father). Suddenly, through devices as Facebook, a family connects. Branches from all over the world are talking to each other.\r\n\r\nI\u2019d like to form a website which looks like a \u00bbBanyan tree\u00ab \u2013 if you click certain \u00bbbranches,\u00ab you will be connected to both \u2013 a part of my family and a very specific question. A cousin living in the USA, e.g., raises questions of feminism in India, another cousin in India raises questions on the class system. Another one, a photographer, presents his work on Indian women. And I want to use something I just started: \u00bbLetters to Papu.\u00ab Papu is my dead cousin, who didn\u2019t survive her arranged marriage. This project is an introduction to my further plans: Oct. \u2013 Dec. I\u2019ll be in India to do research on my cousin\u2019s life. A radio play is the planned \u00bbresult.\u00ab My virtual \u00bbBanyan-Tree\u00ab could be both: first of all documenting my preparations, using e.g. my Eastern holiday with my parents to have a look at \u00bbmy father\u2019s archives,\u00ab his photos of the Indian family, second showing the further steps in autumn \/ winter. Embedded in the personal, private story shall be questions raised in India and about India today \u2013 about feminism, the class system, and religion under \u00bbModi.\u00ab *"}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12239","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=12239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"project","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project?post=12239"},{"taxonomy":"project_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_type?post=12239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}