Para el ojo que mira (1997) Photo/Foto: HIDVL
  • Title: Para el ojo que mira
  • Alternate Title: For the Looking Eye
  • Holdings: video (HIDVL)
  • Duration: 00:14:00
  • Date: 1997
  • Location: Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, La Habana, Cuba.
  • Type-Format: performance, documentary, performance art
  • Cast: Manuel Mendive, Danza Nacional de Cuba, Conjunto Folklórico Nacional de Cuba ; Lázaro Ross, Yoruban singer.
  • Credits: Manuel Mendive, producer, creator ; Fondo Cubano de Bienes Culturales, producer ; Juan Delgado, producer ; Lourdes Prieto, video director ; Video ICAIC, video ; Juan Marcos Blanco, Antonio Vivaldi, Yoruban songs, music ; Rubén de la Torre, Roberto Otero, videographers ; Gabriel Daniel, editor ; Raúl Rodríguez, José M. Riera, Raúl León, photography ; Juan Carlos Téllez, collaborator ; Reynaldo Sánchez, Marilys Olivera, Ricardo de Armas, postproduction ; Mercy González, credits.

Para el ojo que mira (1997)

Video documentation of Manuel Mendive's "Para el ojo que mira," an interdisciplinary performance held at the opening of Mendive's eponymous art exhibit at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Havana in August of 1987. An ambitious, syncretic, critically acclaimed show that included mixed media paintings, sculptures, masks, and performance, "Para el ojo que mira" opened with an exuberant public body art performance created by Mendive, with the participation of musicians and dancers from the Conjunto Folklórico Nacional and the Danza Nacional de Cuba, along with the guest appearance of Lázaro Ross, one of the most important contemporary interpreters of Yoruba music in this Caribbean island. This video documentation was directed by Lourdes Prieto.


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