Dates:
16 Nov 2012 - 18 Nov 2012
People:
Karen Alexander, Constance Forde Allman, Anne Bancroft, Bryan Biggs, Sonia Boyce, Alissandra Cummins, Blue Curry, Paul Goodwin, Harjeet Kaur, Daniella Rose King, Alanna Lockward, Christina Millare, Loren Hansi Momodu, Holly Parotti, Lynn Parotti, Veerle Poupeye, Morgan Quaintance, Amanprit Sandhu, Gill Saunders, Allison Thompson, Sacha Waldron, Mariam Zulfiqar.
Location:
London, Nottingham, Liverpool
VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM, LONDON
On 16 November 2012 ICF presented a one day symposium that aimed to facilitate knowledge exchange between contemporary art curators in the UK, the Caribbean and elsewhere. The event explored models for collaborative and inclusive art/curatorial practices, and examined the Caribbean ‘diaspora’ as its defining characteristic. The discussion investigated how diaspora may transform our current globalised curatorial practice, its reception and its attendant discourses. The event was supported by the Commonwealth Foundation and presented in partnership with the Barbados Museum & Historical Society and the V&A.
Panel 1:
Veerle Poupeye (National Gallery of Jamaica), Holly Parotti (2010 National Exhibition at the National Gallery of the Bahamas), chaired by Alissandra Cummins (Barbados Museum & Historical Society)
Panel 2:
Sonia Boyce (artist, UK) in conversation with Allison Thompson (art historian, Barbados) on Boyce’s video work Crop Over
Paul Goodwin (curator, UK) on Caribbean visual discourse and literature
Alanna Lockward (curator, Dominican Republic) on curating the Caribbean
Followed by a tour of the V&A exhibition Hidden Histories & a publication launch for Curating in the Caribbean
NOTTINGHAM
The programme participants travelled to Nottingham to visit two exhibition featuring Caribbean artists –
Kafou: Haiti, Art & Vodou at Nottingham Contemporary was a major exhibition of Haitian art featuring nearly 200 paintings, sculptures and flags by 35 artists from the 1940s to the present day, tracing the representation of Vodou and reflecting Haiti’s historical experience through the supernatural.
Exhibition I Is Another Part Two at New Art Exchange marked the 50th anniversary of Jamaican independence and featured new installations by Ebony G Patterson and Peter Dean Richards.
LIVERPOOL
The programme participants travelled to Liverpool to see a range of programming over two days –
John Akomfrah’s Unfinished Conversation at Bluecoat, which investigates Stuart Hall’s theory that identity is not an essence or being but instead a becoming, where individual subjectivities are formed in both real and fictive spaces.
Tour of the Liverpool Biennial, including a meeting with Paul Domela from the Biennial team.
Visit to a performance curated by ICF’s Mark Waugh titled KIIL LEE PRESENTS_Kimchis & The Mentles Live at the Kazamier Club.
People:
Karen Alexander, Constance Forde Allman, Anne Bancroft, Bryan Biggs, Sonia Boyce, Alissandra Cummins, Blue Curry, Paul Goodwin, Harjeet Kaur, Daniella Rose King, Alanna Lockward, Christina Millare, Loren Hansi Momodu, Holly Parotti, Lynn Parotti, Veerle Poupeye, Morgan Quaintance, Amanprit Sandhu, Gill Saunders, Allison Thompson, Sacha Waldron, Mariam Zulfiqar.
VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM, LONDON
On 16 November 2012 ICF presented a one day symposium that aimed to facilitate knowledge exchange between contemporary art curators in the UK, the Caribbean and elsewhere. The event explored models for collaborative and inclusive art/curatorial practices, and examined the Caribbean ‘diaspora’ as its defining characteristic. The discussion investigated how diaspora may transform our current globalised curatorial practice, its reception and its attendant discourses. The event was supported by the Commonwealth Foundation and presented in partnership with the Barbados Museum & Historical Society and the V&A.
Panel 1:
Veerle Poupeye (National Gallery of Jamaica), Holly Parotti (2010 National Exhibition at the National Gallery of the Bahamas), chaired by Alissandra Cummins (Barbados Museum & Historical Society)
Panel 2:
Sonia Boyce (artist, UK) in conversation with Allison Thompson (art historian, Barbados) on Boyce’s video work Crop Over
Paul Goodwin (curator, UK) on Caribbean visual discourse and literature
Alanna Lockward (curator, Dominican Republic) on curating the Caribbean
Followed by a tour of the V&A exhibition Hidden Histories & a publication launch for Curating in the Caribbean
NOTTINGHAM
The programme participants travelled to Nottingham to visit two exhibition featuring Caribbean artists –
Kafou: Haiti, Art & Vodou at Nottingham Contemporary was a major exhibition of Haitian art featuring nearly 200 paintings, sculptures and flags by 35 artists from the 1940s to the present day, tracing the representation of Vodou and reflecting Haiti’s historical experience through the supernatural.
Exhibition I Is Another Part Two at New Art Exchange marked the 50th anniversary of Jamaican independence and featured new installations by Ebony G Patterson and Peter Dean Richards.
LIVERPOOL
The programme participants travelled to Liverpool to see a range of programming over two days –
John Akomfrah’s Unfinished Conversation at Bluecoat, which investigates Stuart Hall’s theory that identity is not an essence or being but instead a becoming, where individual subjectivities are formed in both real and fictive spaces.
Tour of the Liverpool Biennial, including a meeting with Paul Domela from the Biennial team.
Visit to a performance curated by ICF’s Mark Waugh titled KIIL LEE PRESENTS_Kimchis & The Mentles Live at the Kazamier Club.
Dates:
16 Nov 2012 - 18 Nov 2012
Location:
London, Nottingham, Liverpool
