Fresh Milk (Barbados), in partnership with TEOR/ética (Costa Rica), is proud to present the 2021 edition of Transoceanic Visual Exchange (TVE), an online exhibition showcasing video art, film and new media from across the Caribbean and Central America.
View the full online exhibition on the TVE website here! Show runs until the end of January, 2022.
Excerpt from the TVE 4 Curatorial Essay:
Transoceanic Visual Exchange (TVE) aims to decentralize curatorial authority in the process of the video selection by implementing a community of curatorial practice model. This curatorial framework, originally developed in 2015 for TVE 1, is derived from the concept of “communities of practice,” developed by Lave and Wenger in their 1991 book Situated Learning. The concept speaks to a social theory of learning through “a set of relations among persons, activity, and world, over time, and in relation with other tangential and overlapping communities of practice” (Leave and Wenger, 1991, p. 98). This model invites open discussions with contemporary practitioners regarding the current environment of film, experimental video and new media in the participating regions, allowing for curatorial concepts to arise out of the conversations, rather than the core project team imposing a particular curatorial framework for each iteration.
Curatorial Themes for TVE 4
As a result of these themes arising in the open conversations, the submissions of works from the open call were reviewed by the core partners in relation to their relevance regarding the curatorial concepts. The number of artists and works selected was limited to 10 in each region, dictated by the funding availability for artist stipends.
The core partners TEOR/éTica and Fresh Milk threaded the final selection of the ten works of video art produced in the Central American region with the ten selected works from the Caribbean region. Skirting the vastness of a body of water that separates us but nevertheless connects us, as if they were living currents,the following thematic axes were defined:
Group 1 (Performance, alternate perspectives & relationships to the environment)
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Linero Ledezma, MORREM (Panama)
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Raquel Paiewonsky, Isopolis (Dominican Republic)
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Ada M. Patterson, The Whole World Is Turning (Barbados)
Group 2 (Concepts of culture explored through non-linear narratives and gestures)
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Clémence Lollia Hilaire, The Silt has risen from the ocean floor and overturned everything (Guadeloupe)
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Leonardo Armando Gonzalez, El oro del tonto (Honduras)
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Violeta Mora Acosta, Mpaka (Honduras/Costa Rica/Cuba-based)
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David Gumbs, Rhapsodie Martinique: La Marche de la Liberté (St. Martin/Martinique)
Group 3 (Resilience and responses to the pandemic across the regions)
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Miquel Galofre, Little Moko (Trinidad & Tobago)
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Momo Magallon, Caída Libre (Panamá)
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Ever Natán Rodas Santos, Compulsión (Guatemala)
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Kayla Archer, Playing it by Ear (Barbados)
Group 4 (Interpretations of collective and personal histories)
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Milko W. Delgado, Apuntes conceptuales sobre el extractivismo bananero en Barú (Panamá)
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Javier Calvo Sandí, Historia Universal (Costa Rica)
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Melanie Grant, Those who have eyes to see (SVG/Barbados)
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Natalia Lassalle-Morillo, Retiro (Puerto Rico)
Group 5 (The impact of colonial legacies and social unrest)
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Marilyn Boror Bor, Receta: ¿Cómo blanquear tus apellidos? de la serie Edicto Cambio de Nombre (Guatemala)
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Claudia Claremi, Amnesia colonial (avenencia) (Cuba)
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Patricia Villalobos Echeverría, LATITUD 12<>LONGITUD-86, Version 2 (Nicaragua)
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Miguel Angel Diaz Rizo, Nicaraguan Fighter (Nicaragua)
Read the full essay on the TVE website here!
ABOUT THE PARTNERS:
Fresh Milk
Fresh Milk is an artist-led, non-profit organisation founded in 2011 and based in Barbados. It is a platform which supports excellence in the visual arts through residencies and programmes that provide Caribbean artists with opportunities for development, fostering a thriving art community.
Fresh Milk offers professional support to artists from the Caribbean and further afield and seeks to stimulate critical thinking in contemporary visual art. Its goal is to nurture artists, raise regional awareness about contemporary arts and provide Caribbean artists with opportunities for growth, excellence and success.
TEOR/ética
Located in San José, Costa Rica, TEOR/éTica is a private, independent, non-profit, dedicated to the research and promotion of contemporary artistic practices.
Throughout more than two decades, TEOR/éTica has worked as a platform that promotes the research and dissemination of contemporary art, with an emphasis on Central America and the Caribbean. It aims to create spaces for doubt, debate and the generation of critical thought relevant to its context. It does this through exhibitions, publications, talks, workshops, grants, an archive and a specialized library, understanding art as a common space from where to generate study and find other ways of being together that build collective learning.
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