{"id":2690,"date":"2014-10-19T14:39:50","date_gmt":"2014-10-19T14:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatwesee.ch\/?p=2690"},"modified":"2020-05-04T10:12:11","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T10:12:11","slug":"shi-shis-chopsticks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mtr.zhdk.ch\/whatwesee\/shi-shis-chopsticks\/","title":{"rendered":"Sei Shi\u2018s Chopsticks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Vera Buck<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Sei\u00a0Shi\u2018s Chopsticks or: How to Eat a Lion<\/em><br \/>\n2014 \/ wooden chopsticks \/ ink on paper<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2691 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.mtr.zhdk.ch\/whatwesee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/10\/what-we-see_Exhibition-Baerengasse-ZH_104-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"910\" height=\"607\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.mtr.zhdk.ch\/whatwesee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/10\/what-we-see_Exhibition-Baerengasse-ZH_104-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.mtr.zhdk.ch\/whatwesee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/10\/what-we-see_Exhibition-Baerengasse-ZH_104-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.mtr.zhdk.ch\/whatwesee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/10\/what-we-see_Exhibition-Baerengasse-ZH_104-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 910px) 100vw, 910px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The project Shi Shi\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcs Chopsticks or: How to Eat a Lion is a parodistic quote on Kafka\u2018s Gabel (Kafka\u2018s fork) as exposed in the Deutsche Literaturarchiv in Marbach. It bears reference to Yuen Ren Chao\u2018s poem The Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den. Allegedly displaying the poet\u2018s chopsticks, found in a stone den in China and brought to a market in Hong Kong, the work arises the question of how Chao\u2018s central charakter Shi Shi possibly ate the ten lions &#8211; a question that is actually less of an issue and no more serious than the poem itself. With The Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den, Yuen Ren Chao wrote a homophonic piece of text, that\u00a0&#8220;if reproduced phonetically with English letters\u201d can only be uttered by the constant repetition of the syllable &#8220;shi&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whatwesee.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/what-we-see_Exhibition-Baerengasse-ZH_020.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2692 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whatwesee.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/what-we-see_Exhibition-Baerengasse-ZH_020-658x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Diplomausstellung Master Transdisziplinarit\u00c3\u00a4t 2014\" width=\"658\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.mtr.zhdk.ch\/whatwesee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/10\/what-we-see_Exhibition-Baerengasse-ZH_020-658x1024.jpg 658w, https:\/\/blog.mtr.zhdk.ch\/whatwesee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/10\/what-we-see_Exhibition-Baerengasse-ZH_020-193x300.jpg 193w, https:\/\/blog.mtr.zhdk.ch\/whatwesee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/10\/what-we-see_Exhibition-Baerengasse-ZH_020-768x1194.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 658px) 100vw, 658px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Vera Buck Sei\u00a0Shi\u2018s Chopsticks or: How to Eat a Lion 2014 \/ wooden chopsticks \/ ink on paper The project Shi Shi\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcs Chopsticks or: How to Eat a Lion is a parodistic quote on Kafka\u2018s Gabel (Kafka\u2018s fork) as exposed in the Deutsche Literaturarchiv in Marbach. It bears reference to Yuen Ren Chao\u2018s poem The&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mtr.zhdk.ch\/whatwesee\/shi-shis-chopsticks\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"h5ap_radio_sources":[],"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exhibition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mtr.zhdk.ch\/whatwesee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mtr.zhdk.ch\/whatwesee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mtr.zhdk.ch\/whatwesee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mtr.zhdk.ch\/whatwesee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mtr.zhdk.ch\/whatwesee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2690"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mtr.zhdk.ch\/whatwesee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3623,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mtr.zhdk.ch\/whatwesee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2690\/revisions\/3623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mtr.zhdk.ch\/whatwesee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mtr.zhdk.ch\/whatwesee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mtr.zhdk.ch\/whatwesee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mtr.zhdk.ch\/whatwesee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}