Wangechi Mutu + Santigold interview -- Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University -- MOCAtv
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 มี.ค. 2013
- MOCAtv presents a conversation between artists Wangechi Mutu and Santigold on the making of the video "The End of eating Everything." The video is Mutu's first animated work, created in collaboration with Santigold and co-released by the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University and MOCAtv on TH-cam.
The 8-minute video, "The End of eating Everything," marks the journey of a flying, planet-like creature navigating a bleak skyscape. This "sick planet" creature is lost in a polluted atmosphere, without grounding or roots, led by hunger towards its own destruction. The animation's audio, also created by Mutu, fuses industrial and organic sounds.
"The End of eating Everything" was commissioned by the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University as part of the new exhibition "Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey," the first survey in the United States for this internationally renowned, multidisciplinary artist, and her most comprehensive and innovative show yet. "The End of eating Everything" can be viewed in person at the Nasher Museum through July 21, 2013, and at the Brooklyn Museum from October 11, 2013-March 9, 2014. A version of this video is also shared at nasher.duke.edu/mutu/art.php and www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibit...
Interview directed by Dylan Steinberg and edited by Tom Salvaggio.
Making of "The End of eating Everything" -- Wangechi Mutu + Santigold -- Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University -- MOCAtv
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Wow.
Santigold is absolutely one of those rare women that "evolves" into their beauty as they get older. Not trying to be superficial, but HOLY SMOKES . . . she is becoming one stunningly beautiful woman!
i just saw this today at the BK museum and it was absolutely breathtaking
I've just had the privilege of seeing Wangechi Mutu's exhibition, including this provocative video, at the Nasher Museum. On two separate occasions, I heard Mutu speak @ the Nasher. This is an extraordinary artist - thoughtful and expressive. Cheers, Wangechi Mutu!
Wangechi Mutu is one of those artist that allow her audience access all the way inside her emotions and creativity. I am going to see the exhibit at the Nasher Museum of Art with my art appreciation class on tomorrow, I can't wait!!!!!!
LOVE IT!!!!!!!!! PURE FIYAH!
So abstract artistically INTRiGue, ...stimulating... I had to search out more of the real video.....ShaZAM!!!! POWERFUL!!
AWESOME!
Very cool comment G !!!
I'd be lying if I said I wasn't jealous. At least it makes me feel better that someone like YOU obviously, TRULY "gets it". You really are "privileged" to have seen this exhibit. And to gloat that "On two separate occasions, you heard Mutu speak @ Nasher" is just rubbing "our" noses in it.
But seriously, I'm glad that someone with your appreciation for art had these fortunes, and was moved enough to post that experience on this page.
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YES.
love Santigold and wangechi's work looks really interesting would have loved to have seen the exhibition. will the exhibition come to England perhaps??
Art is expression from the artist, which brings something out of the receiver. Santigold was referring to the lost art that is Hip-Hop, a music genre she probably grew up and identified with the most. Recently, hip-hop especially, which was an artform that many POC used to express their lives and the many who share it because no one else would, has become vane. Of no value except for cash flow and status. Its bringing out many sides of vanity, and is even RAISING artists to be vane.
Would love to see the exhibit in it's entirety. Anything happening in DC soon? Will research.
I wish I could see the whole thing. :(
Big big crush on both
2:53 art is not SUPPOSED to be anything! it's just anything that is created with a purpose of expressing... ANYTHING!
I will be seeing this video on my daughter Chacine birthday, Saturday, March 1st, which was suggested by her....stay tuned for my comments!
How did it go?
Where can we find the full video piece minus interviews??
It is fine to have your expression be vane. It is up to the artist what they want to express. It is a problem, though, when it becomes a way of life or the only way to express yourself to the masses and even young people who will grow and strive on vanity. People will hurt, sabotage, kill, steal for status and money... Then what will become of the world, the world that was raised by many pieces of art that brought questions, explored minds, gave you freedom? You become a slave with vanity.
...not to be negative, but I don't agree with Santigolds statement that Hip Hop is empty. It's far from that unless you feel that African American Men are insignificant. Perhaps Santigold is lamenting that there are so few Women in the form who have made it with their personal statements...that's understandable. I grew up in the So. Bronx, N.Y.C. where Rap began. (hip hop is the universal movement outside of the roots) I am also Master Hand Drummer so #1...the vocals against the basic beat is as full as it gets...that is the continuation percussive / vocal tradition...of the traditional mother drum> Heart beat and the improvisation of the vocal message.
Rap Music is a protest artform, so the message is revolutionary in the sense that it is using the highly creative structure of base drum and vocals but the message is saying I have something...I am someone too. Rap is true to life representation of the reality of the street life...it is boastful because it moves against the status quo saying " In your face, I have this too".
Now Yes, some of the "MESSAGE" can be empty, but the "art form' is far more advanced in every way and that is the key to it's advancement. Santi is beautiful, but I think that she downplayed her very vehicle instead of seeing the pluses. I am a veteran visual artist and I can say that the world of art today ( message wise ) is far more empty, vague and undefined than the reality of Rap Music and Hip Hop Culture...AKOO!
Well, I respect what you're saying, that hip hop was created as a way for the disenfranchised to show the world that they have something. That is very valiant. But it's the content of what people feel the need to boast to the world that they have that reflects the values of what people feel is wanted and fulfilling in a society. What good is a bunch of now-rich mainstream rappers boasting about money and clothes and hoes when what many lost young black women and men are instead seeking (whether they know it or not) is some kind of spiritual richness? Why cant we go back to the days when what rappers were boasting about in their music wasnt just the value of their new black Ferrari or Lamborghini but of the power of black people, the hope and persistence and history we have behind us that makes us stronger and richer in a deeper way than some rapper's new watch?
When a society as a whole feels more of a need to compare and compete for material wealth more than to cooperate in finding spiritual fullness, it's a sign that shit needs to change.
+Yolis Bortin ...what need to change is White peoples insistence that their "limited" media ( rather than real life ) look is irrelevant...this music is not geared to you and it's not geared to many African Americans of differing lifestyles.
...I said nothing about disenfranchisement and could care less about your assessment of our culture. You use Hip Hop and Rap interchangeably...that's an error. Rap is African ( American ) Hip Hop is Global Culture...BIG DIFFERENCE.
...your terms are broad and sweeping although extremely narrow...the media is not our definer...it's "your" definer. What good is sweeping commentary that excludes the POV of the creators and those who live it as unnecessary or detrimental...YOU should be talking this loosely about Punk, Grunge, Miley Cyrus, Charlie Sheen and so many more...you can be general about them...they're YOU!
...about Hip Hop...you know little...about Rap, "YOU KNOW NOTHING"
Barry R. Irving a.k.a. Dean Story Master Hip hop as of late is hot trash please stop. Santi's right the culture needs to change but at the same time return to its roots. Dancing and partying(which its slowly turning back to with guys like Drake and Lil Uzi Vert) and not regressive criminal culture. Btw, the argument that "the music is just a reflection" is lame. Do you see rock glorifying school shootings? No didn't think so.
True
In a constant non stop ever evolving materialist creative world...why is sush a fuse if we enjoy material stuff? The constant guilt others put on us for having desires...ambitions..as if we all have to be in an spiritual uniform quest, buying the ever awaiting heavens with our restraints.
I think instead of criticizing the ""empty filthy rich"" we could use compassion and unconditional love to all as a way to lead to a better world.
Judgement of other's lives is only a mirage..life is a mystery...everything is an illusion...dont worry be happy.
i loved what santigold had to say about art and where so much of it is today. i look at most art and see hardly anything of worth.
+iwasborntobefly... most art is not in your reach. Just because you can't see doesn't mean that it doesn't have worth.
+iwasborntobefly ...maybe you can't see...maybe art is out of your sphere of comprehension...that's not unusual.