{"id":56684,"date":"2018-07-30T01:36:43","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T01:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56684"},"modified":"2018-07-30T01:36:43","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T01:36:43","slug":"converse-converse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56684","title":{"rendered":"Converse, Converse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elizabethmwebb.com\/portfolio\/converse-converse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Converse, Converse<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2016<br \/>\nvideo\/sound installation: 2-channel color HD video projection,<br \/>\n4-channel audio, 2 floating screens, bench<br \/>\nProjected image size: 14\u20193\u201dx 8\u2019, TRT 16 minutes<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elizabethmwebb.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Elizabeth M. Webb<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/161260309\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Converse, Converse<\/em> is a two-channel video installation that creates a virtual conversation between family members who have never met.<\/p>\n<p>At age 18, I discovered a family history that had gone unspoken for a generation: my father\u2019s father, whom I never met, was African-American\u2014my father had been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">passing as white<\/a>. He had also decided to raise our family as such, giving us no knowledge of our black ancestry. I have since connected with that side of my family and spoken with my father about his decision. Through a process of recording conversations with my father and separate conversations with the women I learned were my second cousins, I positioned myself as a go-between, filming each side watching the other\u2019s interviews and finally, the reactions to their respective reactions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Converse, Converse&#8221; is a two-channel video installation that creates a virtual conversation between family members who have never met.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,414,8,6462,20,842],"tags":[28849,28850],"class_list":["post-56684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-family","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","category-videos","tag-elizabeth-m-webb","tag-elizabeth-webb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56684","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=56684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56685,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56684\/revisions\/56685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}