{"id":376,"date":"2026-04-01T09:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T09:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mosys.art\/wordpress\/?p=376"},"modified":"2026-04-01T09:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T09:25:09","slug":"godzilla-v-giant-mannequin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mosys.art\/wordpress\/godzilla-v-giant-mannequin\/","title":{"rendered":"Godzilla v Giant Mannequin"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fieldwork"],"acf":{"artwork_title":"Godzilla v Giant Mannequin","medium":"Digital Collage","year":2026,"dimensions":"A0","artwork_statement":"This work forms part of an ongoing street installation first pasted up in Portsmouth and Southsea in April 2026. Encountered without instruction, the work operates within existing public and visual systems. It adopts the visual language of mid-century Japanese cinema, staging a familiar conflict without resolving its terms.\r\n\r\n<b>NOW SHOWING \u2013 Godzilla v Giant Mannequin<\/b>\r\nA monster rises at the water\u2019s edge.\r\nA figure stands inland.\r\nBoth are enlarged.\r\nBoth are out of place.\r\n\r\nINT \u2014  the Isle of Wight coastline near the Needles and the High Down Rocket Test Site. \r\nGODZILLA \u2014 drawn from a long-running cinematic mythology.\r\nGIANT MANNEQUIN \u2014 formerly positioned within Debenhams on Palmerston Road prior to its transformation.\r\n\r\n\r\nThe film is already in progress.\r\nThere is no admission.\r\nYou are already in the sequence,\r\nacting out a script you have unknowingly learned.\r\n\r\nThis format is familiar.\r\nBut the roles are unclear.\r\nOne must represent threat.\r\nOne must represent control.\r\nWhich one is the monster?\r\nOr are they the same figure\u2014\r\nviewed through different systems?\r\n\r\n","feature_image":377,"themes":["Digital Collage","Mannequins"],"custom_slug":"","":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mosys.art\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mosys.art\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mosys.art\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mosys.art\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mosys.art\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mosys.art\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":379,"href":"https:\/\/mosys.art\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions\/379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mosys.art\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mosys.art\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mosys.art\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}