{"id":117,"date":"1994-04-30T13:47:12","date_gmt":"1994-04-30T13:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fabyc.co.uk\/wp\/?p=117"},"modified":"2025-03-11T12:02:39","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T12:02:39","slug":"sucking-at-the-sublime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fabyc.co.uk\/index.php\/sucking-at-the-sublime\/","title":{"rendered":"Sucking at the Sublime"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"820\" height=\"269\" data-id=\"523\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fabyc.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/1994\/04\/sucking3.jpg\" alt=\"sucking3\" class=\"wp-image-523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fabyc.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/1994\/04\/sucking3.jpg 820w, https:\/\/www.fabyc.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/1994\/04\/sucking3-300x98.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fabyc.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/1994\/04\/sucking3-290x95.jpg 290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 100vw, 820px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>This event took place in two adjoining constructed rooms in Fabyc\u2019s home. The receptionist allowed a single visitor to enter at a time. She led the person in to the second room and let them survey the environment. The second room is small, to one end is an expensive red lounge chair, with a table and antique lamp beside it. A \u2018Woolworth\u2019s vernacular\u2019 image of horses running through ocean waves is on one wall. A surveillance camera is present in one corner. Vertically placed two-way mirror glass is in the centre of the dividing wall. I was lying on a mortuary block in the centre of this hidden room wearing a red suit<\/p>\n<p>A play is occurring between the massage parlour and the funeral parlour. In earlier times the good bordello had a room where the girls arrayed themselves for the pleasure of the voyeur \/client who often made his choice without entering the room via a peephole or periscope. These days the classier establishments have a room for the client with two-way glass or a video monitor, which displays the girls for the client&#8217;s (mugs) selection. Funeral parlours also have reception rooms where the living are appeased before meeting the dead.<\/p>\n<p>The mirror in this case reflects the client; which along with the more uncanny or visceral nature of real space, is why she choose to use this medium rather than a video monitor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This event took place in two adjoining constructed rooms in Fabyc\u2019s home. The receptionist allowed a single visitor to enter at a time. She led the person in to the second room and let them survey the environment. The second room is small, to one end is an expensive red lounge chair, with a table [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,9],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-works","tag-installation-sculpture","tag-performance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fabyc.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fabyc.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fabyc.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fabyc.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fabyc.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.fabyc.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3311,"href":"https:\/\/www.fabyc.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions\/3311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fabyc.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fabyc.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fabyc.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fabyc.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}