{"id":8732,"date":"2011-12-08T06:55:28","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T06:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=8732"},"modified":"2025-11-16T20:32:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T03:32:17","slug":"xaviera-simmons-an-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/xaviera-simmons-an-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Xaviera Simmons: An Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before departing for her new job at the Museum of Contemporary Art Sand Diego, UMFA chief curator Jill Dawsey installed salt 4, the latest in a series of contemporary art exhibitions that she initiated in 2010. Salt 4 showcases Xaviera Simmons, a New York City artist who trained as a photographer but whose practice extends into sculpture, performance and video.<\/p>\r\n<p>In addition to photographic work reflecting on the western landscape, Simmons has installed a site-specific, wall-bound sculpture that consists of scores of pieces of scrap word bearing words and phrases culled from Simmons cultural research. Simmons discusses the installation in this 15 Bytes interview.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video src=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/xavierasimmons.mov\" controls=\"controls\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/video><\/figure>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video interview with Xaviera Simmons, a New York-based artist featured in the UMFA&#8217;s salt 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_piecal_is_event":false,"_piecal_start_date":"","_piecal_end_date":"","_piecal_is_allday":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,44,14],"tags":[26,770,769,768],"class_list":["post-8732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-15-bytes","category-videos","category-visual_arts","tag-15-bytes","tag-jill-dawsey","tag-utah-museum-of-fine-art","tag-xaviera-simmons"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/xaviera.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 06:34:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8732"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99029,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8732\/revisions\/99029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}