{"id":176418064,"date":"2013-05-08T00:11:59","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T05:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/?p=176418064"},"modified":"2013-05-08T00:11:59","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T05:11:59","slug":"video-eaten-by-the-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/2013\/05\/08\/video-eaten-by-the-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Eaten By The Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/eaten.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-176418065\" alt=\"eaten\" src=\"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/eaten.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/eaten.jpg 800w, https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/eaten-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: xx-large;\"><strong>EATEN BY THE HEART (2012\/2013)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"wides\" style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: #fff5f5;\"><\/div>\n<table class=\"post-147 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-works\" id=\"post-147\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: #fff5f5;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"entry-aside\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px 40px 0px 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 117px;\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"entry-content-right\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top; width: 710px; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify !important;\">\n<div><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><i><i><br \/>\nEaten By The Heart Part III: Breathing Orchestra<\/i><\/i><\/div>\n<p style=\"font-family: 'Stardos Stencil', arial, sans-serif;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/64122805?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" height=\"394\" width=\"700\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: 'Stardos Stencil', arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\"><em>Eaten By The Heart<\/em>\u00a0is a video installation and documentary project conceived, produced and directed by Zina Saro-Wiwa. Commissioned by The Menil Collection, Houston and supported by the Houston Museum of African American Culture for the Menil\u2019s exhibition The Progress of Love (www.theprogressoflove.com), the piece explores intimacy, heartbreak and love performances among Africans and Diasporans.\u00a0<em>Eaten By The Heart<\/em>\u00a0forms part of Zina\u2019s video performance and installation practice which focuses on the mapping of emotional landscapes, its resulting performative behaviors and cross-cultural implications. Zina states:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: 'Stardos Stencil', arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\"><em>\u201cSo many of us cite with confidence that Love Is Universal. But the performance of love is, it seems, cultural. I wonder how the impact of how we choreograph and culturally organize the performance of love impacts what we feel inside and who we become.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: 'Stardos Stencil', arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">The documentary aspect of the\u00a0<em>Eaten By The Heart<\/em>\u00a0project is expressed in three short documentary films that have debuted online on The Progress of Love project website: www.theprogressoflove.com.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"height: 20px; text-align: right;\"><i><i><br \/>\nEaten By The Heart Part II: Damien<\/i><\/i><\/div>\n<p style=\"font-family: 'Stardos Stencil', arial, sans-serif;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/58861510?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" height=\"394\" width=\"700\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: 'Stardos Stencil', arial, sans-serif; text-align: right;\"><em>Eaten By The Heart Part I:<br \/>\nInterview Excerpts or How Do Africans Kiss?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: 'Stardos Stencil', arial, sans-serif;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/54346578?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" height=\"394\" width=\"700\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">The video performance aspect of the Eaten By The Heart is represented by a 62-minute film featuring 12 different African and diasporic couples kissing for between 4 and 7 minutes each. Each couple is super-imposed onto a block colour and each kissing performance features its own individual soundscape. Half the couples are, in fact, strangers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Kissing is a form of intimacy that is common in the West and among Europeans but poses problems to many other cultures including African ones. The piece offers a meditation on a love performance that is not seen as traditionally black or African and is rarely performed in public by black peoples. The performance inserts this gesture into a landscape that doubts black peoples\u2019 love performances and capacity to love themselves and each other, whist simultaneously\u00a0questioning kissing\u2019s primacy as a love performance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">The video performance is showing at the Menil Collection between December 2012 and March 2013. The project is ongoing and Zina hopes to travel to Africa to continue her work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">This project is indebted to Kristina Van Dyke at The Pulitzer Foundation, Susan Sutton at\u00a0The Menil Collection, John Guess and the Houston Museum of African American Culture, Simon Russell, Isabel Wilcox, Ryan Dennis and Wilmetta Toliver-Diallo. Extra special thanks must also be given to all the amazing interviewees that were so beautifully open to this experience and who I have been honoured to work with.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&gt;via:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zinasarowiwa.com\/works\/eaten-by-the-heart\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.zinasarowiwa.com\/works\/eaten-by-the-heart\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EATEN BY THE HEART (2012\/2013) \u00a0 Eaten By The Heart Part III: Breathing Orchestra Eaten By The Heart\u00a0is a video installation and documentary project conceived, produced and directed by Zina Saro-Wiwa. Commissioned by The Menil Collection, Houston and supported by the Houston Museum of African American Culture for the Menil\u2019s exhibition The Progress of Love [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[6],"tags":[4,12,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176418064"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176418064"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176418064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176418100,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176418064\/revisions\/176418100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176418064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176418064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176418064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}