{"id":49788,"date":"2021-11-22T18:39:03","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T17:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/?p=49788"},"modified":"2021-11-22T19:28:25","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T18:28:25","slug":"the-propeller-group-naomi-beckwith-ed-mca-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/?p=49788","title":{"rendered":"The Propeller Group. Naomi Beckwith (Ed.). MCA Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/the-propeller-group-naomi-beckwith-mca-chicago-9780996211628-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-49799 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/the-propeller-group-naomi-beckwith-mca-chicago-9780996211628-1-682x909.jpg\" alt=\"the-propeller-group-naomi-beckwith-mca-chicago-9780996211628-1\" width=\"682\" height=\"909\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/the-propeller-group-naomi-beckwith-mca-chicago-9780996211628-1-682x909.jpg 682w, http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/the-propeller-group-naomi-beckwith-mca-chicago-9780996211628-1-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/the-propeller-group-naomi-beckwith-mca-chicago-9780996211628-1-768x1024.jpg 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href=\"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/the-propeller-group-naomi-beckwith-mca-chicago-9780996211628-20.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-49800 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/the-propeller-group-naomi-beckwith-mca-chicago-9780996211628-20-682x512.jpg\" alt=\"the-propeller-group-naomi-beckwith-mca-chicago-9780996211628-20\" width=\"682\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/the-propeller-group-naomi-beckwith-mca-chicago-9780996211628-20-682x512.jpg 682w, http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/the-propeller-group-naomi-beckwith-mca-chicago-9780996211628-20-340x255.jpg 340w, http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/the-propeller-group-naomi-beckwith-mca-chicago-9780996211628-20-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/the-propeller-group-naomi-beckwith-mca-chicago-9780996211628-20.jpg 1444w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/the-propeller-group-naomi-beckwith-mca-chicago-9780996211628-11.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-49798 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/the-propeller-group-naomi-beckwith-mca-chicago-9780996211628-11-682x909.jpg\" alt=\"the-propeller-group-naomi-beckwith-mca-chicago-9780996211628-11\" width=\"682\" height=\"909\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/the-propeller-group-naomi-beckwith-mca-chicago-9780996211628-11-682x909.jpg 682w, http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/the-propeller-group-naomi-beckwith-mca-chicago-9780996211628-11-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/the-propeller-group-naomi-beckwith-mca-chicago-9780996211628-11-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/the-propeller-group-naomi-beckwith-mca-chicago-9780996211628-11.jpg 1083w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Propeller Group\u2014an artist team made up of Phunam, Matt Lucero, and Tuan Andrew Nguyen, and based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam\u2014blurs the boundaries between fine art and media production, in much the same way that this publication blurs the boundaries between a traditional exhibition catalogue and an artist book. The catalogue features expository essays by curators Naomi Beckwith and Cesar Garcia, as well as contributions by each of the members of The Propeller Group: Tuan pens an obituary for the group that pays homage to Vietnamese funereal celebrations, Phunam shares an astrological reading that similarly honors the cultural legacy of Vietnam, and Lucero creates a travelogue that records the group\u2019s recent exploration of the natural beauty of Papua New Guinea.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first scholarly treatment on The Propeller Group, published on the occasion of the group\u2019s exhibition at the MCA. The exhibition presents a number of multipart projects, comprised of videos and related objects, from the past five years for the first time since the group was formed in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Order <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/shop\/the-propeller-group-naomi-beckwith-mca-chicago-9780996211628.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Propeller Group\u2014an artist team made up of Phunam, Matt Lucero, and Tuan Andrew Nguyen, and based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam\u2014blurs the boundaries between fine art and media production, in much the same way that this publication blurs the boundaries between a traditional exhibition catalogue and an artist book. The catalogue features [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[5470,6521,5488,6518,6522,6520,6517,6516,6519],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49788"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49788"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49803,"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49788\/revisions\/49803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}