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Author:

Saro-Wiwa, Zina, artist. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2009203004

Title:

Zina Saro-wiwa : did you know we taught them how to dance? / Amy L. Powell ; contributors, Ebiegberi Joe Alagoa [and three others] ; editor, Maria Bailey.

Publisher:

Blaffer Art Museum ;

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

116 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 28 cm

Subject:

Saro-Wiwa, Zina--Exhibitions.
Video installations (Art)--Nigeria--21st century--Exhibitions.
Video installations (Art)--Great Britain--21st century--Exhibitions.
Photography--Nigeria--21st century--Exhibitions.
Photography--Great Britain--21st century--Exhibitions.
Sound installations (Art)--Nigeria--21st century--Exhibitions.
Sound installations (Art)--Great Britain--21st century--Exhibitions.
Environmental degradation--In art.
Niger River Delta (Nigeria)--In art.

Other Authors:

Powell, Amy L., compiler. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2016061340
Alagoa, Ebiegberi Joe, author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50040164
Bailey, Maria, editor. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nb99021604
Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston, host institution. host institution. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2010045116
Krannert Art Museum, host institution. host institution. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50067717

Notes:

Catalog of an exhibition co-organized by Blaffer Art Museum, University of Houston, and Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, held at Blaffer Art Museum from September 26, 2015-March 19, 2016 and at Krannert Art Museum from November 10, 2016-March 25, 2017. Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Artist's Biography. Zina Saro-Wiwa -- Food is Ready / Amy L. Powell -- Afropolitan in a State of Grace / Taiye Selasi -- Eden If We Dare / Stephanie LeMenager -- Interview / Chika Okeke-Agulu, Zina Saro-Wiwa -- Plates -- The Mangrove Banquet / Zina Saro-Wiwa -- Checklist of the Exhibition -- Artist's Biography.

Summary:

"'Did You Know We Taught Them How To Dance?' is the first solo museum presentation of works by British-Nigerian video artist and filmkaker Zina Saro-Wiwa. Featuring video installations, photographs, and a sound installation produced in the Niger Delta region of southeastern Nigeria from 2013-2015, the exhibition uses folklore, masquerade traditions, religious practices, food and Nigerian popular aesthetics to test art's capacity to transform and to envision new concepts of environment and environmentalism. Engaging Niger Delta residents both as subjects and collaborators, Zina Saro-Wiwa cultivates strategies of psychic survival and performance, underscoring the complex and expressive ways in which people live in an area historically fraught with the politics of energy, labor and land. Known for decades for corruption and envrionmental degradation, the Niger Delta is also a verdant place, an abundant food producer as well as provider of crude oil and natural gas to the entire globe. Full inscribed within the Niger Delta while addressing the global circulation ofenergy capital, Saro-Wiwa develops narraitve devices that render environmental and emotional ecosystems inseparable." http://blafferartmuseum.org/zina-saro-wiwa-did-you-know-we-taught-them-how-to-dance/

ISBN:

1883015480
9781883015480

OCLC:

(OCoLC)933273620

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)