What does the artist’s body do? No one pushes us to ask this more than the Cuban-American artist Ana Mendieta. Her excavated silhouettes in the landscape, where her body would at times lie, covered with petals or feathers, are but one of the actions and rituals that she performed during her short career. What did occur in her own body? Community? Communion? What was the origin and the purpose of her embodied art? And what is the medium for this kind of art, happening in and with the body of the artist?
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Celebrated for being a visionary eco-feminist, an activist against violence women, Ana Mendieta’s work is often obliterated by the sensationalism around it. The exhibition at Tate Modern feels like meeting the artist for the first time. For more info: https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/ana-mendieta
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Segment: Brainstorm in a Teacup:
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Jingle: "Wunder", experimental poem by Joana P. R. Neves.
00:00:00 Intro–Art Thinkosaurus OG story
00:02:10 The body of Mark Rothko, Ithell Colquhoun, Ana Mendieta
00:09:33 Ana Mendieta: a "void" at Tate Modern
00:16:25 Mendieta's words and syncretic rituals
00:23:31 Art Etiquette with Esther Stanford!
00:46:48 How Shamanism resonates with Mendieta's work
00:55:14 Recording technologies: Mendieta's traces
00:59:14 How Mendieta interlaced the Universal and the Social body
01:05:54 Brainstorm in a Teacup! Joana reads from her notebooks
01:08:43 Goodbye and end credits...