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Tang Museum Nnenna Okore on quotMbembequot
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Video Source: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NW0-Ri81RV0
In Nnenna Okore's native language, Igbo, Mbembe means shadow. In this video, Okore discusses her piece Mbembe and its commentary on indiscriminant waste in consumer societies. • For Mbembe, Okore recycled and transformed used plastic bags into a large, hanging installation that emphasizes the pervasive presence and looming shadow of plastic bags in contemporary culture. Mbembe was featured in the Tang Museum exhibition Environment and Object - Recent African Art (2011). http://tang.skidmore.edu/index.php/po... • • CREDITS | Producer/Camera/Editor: Vickie Riley. Interview: John Weber. Sound/Original Music: Brett Hartman • • ©The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, 2011
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