{"id":4,"date":"2010-09-15T18:12:57","date_gmt":"2010-09-15T18:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jonasdossantos.com\/?page_id=4"},"modified":"2010-09-16T04:06:58","modified_gmt":"2010-09-16T04:06:58","slug":"artist-statement","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.jonasdossantos.com\/?page_id=4","title":{"rendered":"Artist Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonasdossantos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/jd1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-66\" title=\"jd\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jonasdossantos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/jd1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"149\" \/><\/a><br \/>For over thirty years, master installation\/performance artist and  community visual activist Jonas dosa Santos has been working in a  multi-disciplanary mode, creating performances, installations, murals,  paintings, drawings and sculpture.\u00c2\u00a0 He is known for exploring social  environmental issues and cultural identities.\u00c2\u00a0 The focus of his research  has been the visual arts, ethnic dances, non-verbal theater, pagan and  religious rituals and body movement.\u00c2\u00a0 He has studied ritual \u00e2\u20ac\u201c\u00c2\u00a0 the  carefully choreographed repetitive movements that transmit underlying  social meaning as magic, the unexpected and spontaneous.\u00c2\u00a0 His  performance\/installations have been designed to engage participants of  diverse and intergenerational cultural backgrounds and professions, as  well as the initiated and uninitiated, in the arts, in the creation of  the artwork.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For over thirty years, master installation\/performance artist and community visual activist Jonas dosa Santos has been working in a multi-disciplanary mode, creating performances, installations, murals, paintings, drawings and sculpture.\u00c2\u00a0 He is known for exploring social environmental issues and cultural identities.\u00c2\u00a0 The focus of his research has been the visual arts, ethnic dances, non-verbal theater, pagan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-wide.php","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jonasdossantos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jonasdossantos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jonasdossantos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jonasdossantos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jonasdossantos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.jonasdossantos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jonasdossantos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}