Dear colleagues,
For those in the Birmingham, UK, area, please see below.
All the best,
Pat
Dr Patricia Noxolo,
Senior Lecturer in Human Geography
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences,
University of Birmingham,
Edgbaston,
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK
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From: Members of the Society for Caribbean Studies based in UK [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Conrad James [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 25 September 2017 16:45
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Subject: Contemporary Caribbean Art and Civic Engagement - Wed. 27th September
Dear Colleagues
You are invited to hear Carlos Garrido Castellano deliver a lecture on
'Contemporary Caribbean Art and Civic Engagement' at the British and Midland Institute this Wednesday (27th) at 6pm.
https://www.bmi.org.uk/
‘Contemporary Caribbean Art and Civic Engagement’
Carlos Garrido Castellano (University of Lisbon)
Based on his recent book Spaces and Places of Artistic Contemporaneity in the Caribbean, this lecture will analyse the ways in which Caribbean creators have actively produced spaces for affirmation, discussion and visual representation. Its main argument is that Caribbean visual practice is strongly linked to an exercise of spatial imagination, in which alternative lives, encounters and futures are experienced and made possible. This exercise is not restricted to a task of challenging foreign and internal expectations about what the Caribbean is or how its visual imaginary has been constructed; rather, it implies developing strategies, structures and platforms of artistic creation. Focusing on Caribbean artistic practices ranging from the eighties to the present moment, the talk aims to measure the potential for artistic practice to engage the main issues facing Caribbean societies. The main focus of this talk will be, then, agency: agency within space, agency through space, agency as space, the agency of space.
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