{"id":198,"date":"2025-10-08T12:58:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T09:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/?p=198"},"modified":"2025-10-08T12:58:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T09:58:00","slug":"returning-to-tracey-emins-strangeland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/?p=198","title":{"rendered":"Returning to Tracey Emin\u2019s Strangeland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/16690\/tracey-emin-strangeland-anniversary-edition-jessica-andrews?utm_source=Linkamp;utm_medium=Linkamp;utm_campaign=RSSFeedamp;utm_term=returning-to-tracey-emin-s-strangeland\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/786\/azure\/another-prod\/330\/5\/335095.jpg\" alt=\"Tracey Emin, 1997\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>My first connection with <strong>Tracey Emin<\/strong>\u2019s work was through her video piece, Why I never became a dancer. It shows grainy footage of her hometown, Margate; the cliffs, Mario\u2019s Coffee Parlour, flashing arcades, fish and chip shops, the sea. Emin\u2019s voiceover tells the story of competing in The World Disco Dance Championship as a young teenager in 1978. She describes the freedom she feels when she is dancing, until a group of older men she has slept with start chanting \u201cslag\u201dhellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/16690\/tracey-emin-strangeland-anniversary-edition-jessica-andrews?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=returning-to-tracey-emin-s-strangeland\">read more raquo;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first connection with Tracey Emin\u2019s work was through her video piece, Why I never became a dancer. It shows grainy footage of her hometown, Margate; the cliffs, Mario\u2019s Coffee Parlour, flashing arcades, fish and chip shops, the sea. Emin\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}