{"id":683,"date":"2011-04-25T10:43:43","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T09:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emilyspeed.co.uk\/news\/?p=683"},"modified":"2014-10-27T14:22:47","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T13:22:47","slug":"the-emely-cafe-and-reading-on-wheels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/emilyspeed.co.uk\/news\/2011\/04\/25\/the-emely-cafe-and-reading-on-wheels\/","title":{"rendered":"The Emely Cafe and Reading on wheels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I finished working in Cambridge after building a pod structure on wheels. I had a great time getting on with some constructing and also chatting to artist Rosalie Schweiker, who is running the &#8216;Emely Cafe&#8217; at Aid &amp; Abet at the moment.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-683 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/emilyspeed.co.uk\/news\/2011\/04\/25\/the-emely-cafe-and-reading-on-wheels\/box-man\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/emilyspeed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/box-man-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw \/ 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw \/ 12)), 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/emilyspeed.co.uk\/news\/2011\/04\/25\/the-emely-cafe-and-reading-on-wheels\/portable-reading\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/emilyspeed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/portable-reading-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw \/ 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw \/ 12)), 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/emilyspeed.co.uk\/news\/2011\/04\/25\/the-emely-cafe-and-reading-on-wheels\/portable\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/emilyspeed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/portable-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw \/ 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw \/ 12)), 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>The &#8216;Reading Space&#8217; that I made was especially for Kobo Abe&#8217;s book &#8216;The Box Man&#8217;. The idea is that the reader can get into this space, wheel it around until they find just the right spot and settle down to read. There is a cup holder for coffee too of course and a plush red seat. A hole in the floor allows the user to out one foot through and scoot themselves about flintstones-style.<\/p>\n<p>Rosalie kindly filmed some short snippets of me road-testing the reading pod. Here I use it to steal cake.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/22574386\">Reading Space on The Emely&#8217;s vimeo channel<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Artist Corinna Spencer has also taken some great photos of the exhibition &#8211; <a title=\"Flikr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/48722588@N04\/sets\/72157626436744629\/\" target=\"_blank\">see them on Flikr here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I finished working in Cambridge after building a pod structure on wheels. I had a great time getting on with some constructing and also chatting to artist Rosalie Schweiker, who is running the &#8216;Emely Cafe&#8217; at Aid &amp; Abet at the moment. The &#8216;Reading Space&#8217; that I made was especially for Kobo Abe&#8217;s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/emilyspeed.co.uk\/news\/2011\/04\/25\/the-emely-cafe-and-reading-on-wheels\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Emely Cafe and Reading on wheels&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,13,52],"tags":[144,151,143,157,150,155,43,152,156,145,153,154],"class_list":["post-683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibitions","category-projects","category-residencies","tag-aid-abet","tag-box-man","tag-cambridge","tag-corinna-spencer","tag-drawings","tag-emely","tag-exhibition","tag-kobo-abe","tag-rosalie-schweiker","tag-small-scale-survival","tag-structure","tag-wheels","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/emilyspeed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/emilyspeed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/emilyspeed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emilyspeed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emilyspeed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/emilyspeed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1322,"href":"http:\/\/emilyspeed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions\/1322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/emilyspeed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emilyspeed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emilyspeed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}