{"id":54090,"date":"2018-10-30T10:58:45","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T14:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=54090"},"modified":"2018-10-30T17:05:50","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T21:05:50","slug":"indoor-rooftop-exhibit-to-open-at-rodman-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2018\/10\/indoor-rooftop-exhibit-to-open-at-rodman-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Indoor rooftop exhibit to open at Rodman Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The public is invited to take an indoor rooftop stroll while exploring the latest exhibit at Rodman Hall Art Centre.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Northern Oracle,\u00a0by artist Heather Hart, consists of a rooftop installation with an interior attic space emerging from the gallery floor. The installation is accompanied by a series of mixed media drawings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Visitors to the exhibition, which opens Thursday, Nov. 1, are invited to contemplate ideas of home and physical space while walking on the rooftop and inside the attic itself. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The installation considers black histories, the importance of having a place to call home and access to ownership. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Inside the attic is the \u201cOracle,\u201d where visitors are encouraged to leave behind offerings to create a shrine of the Niagara region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition to opportunities for audience participation, a variety of performances, lectures and workshops will be found throughout the exhibition to enhance its environment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The public is invited to hear Hart speak about her work during Northern Oracle\u2019s opening on Thursday, Nov. 1 at 7 p.m. The exhibition will be at Rodman Hall until March 3, 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(EDITOR\u2019S NOTE: Story by fifth-year Interactive Arts and Science student Ellen Thornton, an intern with the Faculty of Humanities)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The public is invited to take an indoor rooftop stroll while taking in the latest exhibit opening Thursday, Nov. 1 at Rodman Hall Art Centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54091,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[37,1,4],"tags":[30,1330],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54090"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54092,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54090\/revisions\/54092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}