{"id":51192,"date":"2017-01-16T01:50:49","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T01:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=51192"},"modified":"2017-01-16T01:50:49","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T01:50:49","slug":"exclusive-watch-salena-goddens-under-the-pier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=51192","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: Watch Salena Godden\u2019s \u2018Under the Pier\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestateofthearts.co.uk\/features\/exclusive-watch-selena-goddens-pier\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Exclusive: Watch Salena Godden\u2019s \u2018Under the Pier\u2019<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestateofthearts.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">The State Of The Arts<\/a><br \/>\n2017-01-10<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/christycooney\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Christy Cooney<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Leeds, United Kingdom<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eZX5fZ6RyR8?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Spoken word artist\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.salenagodden.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Salena Godden<\/a> has kicked of 2017 with the release of a video for\u00a0\u2018Under the Pier\u2019, a piece from\u00a0her 2016 album\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nymphsandthugs.bandcamp.com\/album\/livewire\" target=\"_blank\"><em>LIVEwire<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Shot on location in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hastings\" target=\"_blank\">Hastings, East Sussex<\/a> in November 2016, the video\u00a0was filmed, directed, and edited by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/j_s_kennedy\" target=\"_blank\">Jordon Scott Kennedy<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/idleworkfactory\" target=\"_blank\">Idle Work Factory<\/a>, and accompanies a live performance at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/showsandtours\/venue\/bbc_radio_theatre\" target=\"_blank\">BBC Radio Theatre<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy said of the project:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI jumped at the chance to work with Salena. Her words in particular have the habit of conjuring up imagery that takes us to a specific place and time, and even then, we are left looking forwards, and hopeful, rather than nostalgic or regretful. Behind the scenes she has a way of carrying this spirit at all times, and she made my job fairly easy. \u201cCan you just stand there and think about Salena stuff? Yep. That\u2019s perfect. Cut. Fucking doddle. Pub?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe spent the day showing me around her hometown, which became\u00a0a blank canvas for me. Her enthusiasm for her roots had all kinds of ideas rushing through my head. I think it could be quite easy to be overwhelmed by her explosive lust for life. There\u2019s definitely something special about the lass, and you feel that listening to <em>LIVEwire<\/em>&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestateofthearts.co.uk\/features\/exclusive-watch-selena-goddens-pier\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Watch Salena Godden\u2019s \u2018Under the Pier\u2019 The State Of The Arts 2017-01-10 Christy Cooney Leeds, United Kingdom Spoken word artist\u00a0Salena Godden has kicked of 2017 with the release of a video for\u00a0\u2018Under the Pier\u2019, a piece from\u00a0her 2016 album\u00a0LIVEwire. Shot on location in Hastings, East Sussex in November 2016, the video\u00a0was filmed, directed, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,8,10,842],"tags":[25997,25996,25665,25998],"class_list":["post-51192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-media-archive","category-uk","category-videos","tag-christy-cooney","tag-jordon-scott-kennedy","tag-salena-godden","tag-the-state-of-the-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51193,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51192\/revisions\/51193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}