{"id":1568,"date":"2019-09-16T19:00:17","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T19:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/?p=1568"},"modified":"2019-09-21T03:37:15","modified_gmt":"2019-09-21T03:37:15","slug":"joel-petts-editorial-cartoons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/2019\/09\/16\/joel-petts-editorial-cartoons\/","title":{"rendered":"For Zina Saro-Wiwa, Food Carries Meaning and Metaphor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>by Joel Pett, <em>Ted Loos<\/em>, December 4, 2018<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/12\/04\/arts\/for-zina-saro-wiwa-food-art-basel.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FArt\">For Zina Saro-Wiwa, Food Carries Meaning and Metaphor<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n\n\n<p>But for the artist Zina Saro-Wiwa, the wellspring of her art is brutally straightforward: Her father, the Nigerian writer and anti-oil activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, was executed in 1995 by Nigeria\u2019s military dictatorship for his work fighting environmental degradation and corruption in Ogoniland, the home of the country\u2019s Ogoni people.<br><br>Eventually it emerged in a way that she couldn\u2019t have predicted. This week at Art Basel Miami Beach, her London gallery, Tiwani Contemporary, will display her video series \u201cTable Manners\u201d in the Nova sector.<br><br>The ongoing series, which began in 2014, shows people from the Niger Delta while they are eating. Just eating. The titles of the works are taken from the name of the performer and the food: \u201cFelix Eats Garri and Egusi Soup,\u201d for instance. As it has gone on, the series has taken a somewhat darker turn, with the subjects eating snake and other animals that appear in local folk tales.<br><br>\u201cIt\u2019s a great leveler,\u201d Mr. Schoonmaker said. \u201cWe all have to do it to survive.\u201d Although Ms. Saro-Wiwa said that she is addressing \u201cautonomy, creativity and environmentalism,\u201d she said she doesn\u2019t consider herself an activist, and she doesn\u2019t directly tackle policies or governments in her work. Her website says that her specialty is \u201cmapping emotional landscapes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Analysis:<\/em><\/strong> The work of Zina Saro-Wiwa is a great reminder that eating is necessary for all, and no matter what you eat, it&#8217;s sustenance and culture. It&#8217;s both practical, yet an emotional part of our everyday lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Joel Pett, Ted Loos, December 4, 2018For Zina Saro-Wiwa, Food Carries Meaning and Metaphor But for the artist Zina Saro-Wiwa, the wellspring of her art is brutally straightforward: Her father, the Nigerian writer and anti-oil activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, was executed in 1995 by Nigeria\u2019s military dictatorship for his work fighting environmental degradation and corruption [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":1977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1568","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1568"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1978,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568\/revisions\/1978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}