I was thinking about this when I was in the supermarket just now and I was looking vacantly at the chocolate Easter bunnies and all the doubts I’d had about self-care since you asked me to do this interview crystallized as: “but we should all be able to take care of each other.” That’s sort of a melancholic position though, because the whole role of the capitalist state is to break that possibility, and that’s the reality we live in. SBM: There’s a behavior or attitude that needs correcting. HB: Yeah, I’m concerned that it becomes another way to self-flagellate or part of a disgusting idea of work ethic, like, “you’re so lazy, you’re not taking care of yourself!!” Like how drug addiction treatment is moralistic and fucked up and therefore not effective at all because it assumes addiction is purely a question of willpower and having the right kinds of thoughts. I think there’s definitely a danger that it will become some sort of hashtag. SBM: It’s what I find particularly interesting because I’m so terrible at it and most of the people I talk to still don’t know what it means to them yet. Don’t you think that is like, pure capitalist reification though, in the sense of like, making a thing of a thing that is just a thing? Is it annoying how I’m problematizing the concept of self-care so much? I could also stop doing that.
Not that the desire has to be fulfilled, but it’s necessary for me to have desires and know them and be able to work them through, think about them, spend time on them. HB: Besides enough to eat and a place to live and time with friends, what’s necessary to me is what I desire. I’m not sure what the relationship between self-care and necessity is.
Maybe it would be better to put that as the relation between self-care and necessity. I think in general the trouble I have with self-care is that I can’t quite work out the exact connection between things like self-care and cooking. I like the idea that if people come to your home you feed them, but it’s not like this reification of eating together. I also don’t like the idea of the dinner party. I hate how cooking has become this public macho fame thing with complex tech and whatever. HB: I really like to cook, but not in a complicated way, because that feels embarrassing. SBM: Does cooking or food factor into self-care for you? Is it important to you? I’m cooking but we can talk while I cook. We chucked that original draft and, instead, turned to Gchat to air confusions about self-care: how it can potentially be problematic, what it means in a larger context, but also how self-editing could be a form of self-care too. Hannah asked me to really mean what I said, or asked me to either specify context or situations that influenced the very limited ways I defined and conceived of self-care. Over the course of a few days, Hannah would edit and re-edit responses, refining every idea.
#Ciara paint it black interview how to
We zoom in on the skin of these men, counting every pore as Ciara sings “Your body/is my party.” You can hear Beyonce, Rihanna, Whitney, Ciara, along with many others, utter “My body.” Black’s editing draws you into the video and the way the sounds and images and text are layered and spliced together, you’re hypnotized by the rhythm of so many bodies on top of bodies.įor weeks, Hannah and I had been going back and forth within a Google Doc about self-care: how to define it for ourselves and for others. As different close-ups of white men appear, a stream of “my body” in pop songs plays.
In Hannah Black’s video My Bodies, Black has assembled instances of the word “body” in pop music.
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