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Sustainable Art Communities: Creativity and Policy in the Transnational Caribbean

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Marlon Griffith, 2012, Kawa no ji, Japanese washi, dimensions variable. Installed at Mino, Gifu, Japan. Image courtesy of the artist.

Marlon Griffith, 2012, Kawa no ji, Japanese washi, dimensions variable. Installed at Mino, Gifu, Japan. Image courtesy of the artist.

Sustainable Art Communities: Creativity and Policy in the Transnational Caribbean

‘Sustainable Art Communities: Creativity and Policy in the Transnational Caribbean’ is a two-year international research project that explores how the understanding and formation of sustainable community for the Caribbean and its global diaspora may be supported by art practice, curating and museums.

The project fosters networks of exchange and collaboration among academics, artists, curators and policymakers from the UK and the Netherlands, as well as various countries in the English and Dutch-speaking Caribbean and their diasporas.

We are pleased to announce the details of our second conference, to take place at the Institute for International Visual Arts (Iniva, London) on 3rd and 4th December, 2013.

Speakers include:

Alessio Antoniolli (UK), Marielle Barrow (Trinidad), Charles Campbell (Jamaica/UK), Annalee Davis (Barbados), Joy Gregory (UK), Therese Hadchity (Barbados), Glenda Heyliger (Aruba), Rosemarijn Hoefte (Netherlands), Yudhishthir Raj Isar (France/India), Nancy Jouwe (Netherlands), Charl Landvreugd (Netherlands), Wayne Modest (Netherlands), Petrona Morrison (Jamaica), Jynell Osborne (Guyana), Marcel Pinas (Suriname), Dhiradj Ramsamoedj (Suriname), Leon Wainwright (UK), and Kitty Zijlmans (Netherlands)

Book your place online

If you have any queries please call 020 7749 1240 or email bookings@rivingtonplace.org

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Institute for International Visual Arts (Iniva), London

Conference 1:

Our first conference took place at the Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam on 5th and 6th February 2013.

View video footage of the conference on the Open Arts Archive.

About us

‘Sustainable Art Communities: Creativity and Policy in the Transnational Caribbean’ is a two-year international research project led by Dr Leon Wainwright (The Open University, UK) and Professor Dr Kitty Zijlmans (Leiden University), funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC, UK), in partnership with the Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam; Iniva, the Institute of International Visual Arts, London; and Rivington Place.

Visit the project web pages here.

FRESH MILK XIII Video

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Take a look at our video from FRESH MILK XIII, held on October 24th 2013 at Fresh Milk.

The event featured of a screening of our resident artist Damali Abrams’ documentary Fresh Performance: Contemporary Performance Art in NYC & The Caribbean; the launching of our new public gallery space the FRESH MILK ARTBOARD & our Virtual Map of Caribbean Art Spaces; screening a selection from Project 35: Volume 2, a traveling exhibition produced by Independent Curators International, New York; and showcasing the new additions to the Colleen Lewis Reading Room.

Thanks to Sammy Davis for shooting and editing this video.

FRESH MILK at the 18th International Contemporary Art Festival SESC_Videobrasil

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FRESH MILK is very pleased to be in Sao Paulo to participate in the 18th Festival de Arte Contemporanea SESC Videobrasil – 30 Anos Panoramos do Sul. Founding director of Fresh Milk Annalee Davis will be taking part in the 3rd Focus group of the festival’s public programming, which centers on artist residencies. She will be presenting at a panel titled ‘Hospitality and the politics of mobility’ on November 10, 2013.

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Focus 3 | Residences and Routes to Art Research

From the late 1980s on, economic globalization has directly influenced the sphere of cultural exchanges, driving the reinvention of the avenues for creation and artistic exchange. That has paved the way for practice- and research-oriented networks capable of reversing the knowledge flow, which moved from North to South up until then. The focus Residences and Routes to Art Research will discuss how artistic residency experiences reverberate upon the dynamics of collaboration between agents and institutions that relate to art, culture, and various spheres of society.

Hospitality and the politics of mobility
November 10, 11 a.m. — Sesc Pompeia / Galpão

The growing circulation of goods and human capital brought about by globalization is accompanied by the reaffirmation of differences and the closing of borders. In times of increased mobility and the worsening of identity disputes, the act of welcoming becomes a political act. What values permeate hospitality? How does artistic research in displacement interfere with the spaces and agents that deal with the permeability of current borders?

Featuring:

Aaron Cezar (Mamou, USA, 1977) Dancer and cultural producer. Director of the Delfina Foundation, which focuses on cultural exchange between the United Kingdom, the Middle East and Africa.

Annalee Davis (St. Michael, Barbados, 1963) Founder of the Fresh Milk Art Platform Inc and Visual Arist. Her work explores notions of home, longing and belonging within the  larger context of a post-colonial Caribbean history and is concerned with the impact of tourism on the shifting physical landscapes of the archipelago.

Koyo Kouoh (Douala, Cameroon, 1967) Curator. Founder and director of the RAWMaterial Company, an art center in Dakar, Senegal. She has curated international African contemporary art shows.

Moderator: Amilcar Packer (Santiago de Chile, 1974) Artist whose practice displaces, subverts, and re-contextualizes commonplace objects, architecture, and the human body in actions and recordings. He has featured in the Biennale of Sydney (2004).

FRESH MILK XIII Photographs

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We are pleased to share images from FRESH MILK XIII which took place on Thursday, October 24th 2013 at the Milking Parlour Studio.

To listen to an interview conducted by Stacia Brathwaite with Fresh Milk Founder/Director Annalee Davis promoting the event and speaking about Fresh Milk’s mission, which aired Wednesday October 23rd on Starcom Network’s 6:00pm Williams News Makers segment, click here: Fresh Milk Feature.

The event comprised of a screening of our resident artist damali abrams’ documentary Fresh Performance: Contemporary Performance Art in NYC & The Caribbean; the launching of our new public gallery space FRESH MILK ARTBOARD & our Virtual Map of Caribbean Art Spaces; screening a selection from Project 35: Volume 2, a traveling exhibition produced by Independent Curators International, New York; and showcasing the new additions to the Colleen Lewis Reading Room.

Special thanks to the US Embassy in Barbados for supporting damali’s residency and contributing to the expansion of the Reading Room; to the Maria Holder Memorial Trust for supporting the Virtual Map as well as expanding the library collection; Groundation Grenada for taking part in this collaborative residency with us; the ICI for sharing Project 35; and to Musson Realty for donating their billboard for Fresh Milk to use as an exhibition space. We are extremely grateful for all of the relationships we have formed, which assist us in carrying out our mission.

All photographs by Mark King unless otherwise stated.

Photograph by Mark King.
Damali Abrams. Photograph by Mark King.

Exhibition by Versia Harris at the IBB

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Instituto Buena Bista, Curacao in collaboration with Fresh Milk and Barbados Community College (BCC), has the pleasure to announce that Barbadian Artist Versia Harris will be exhibiting on October 25th 2013.

Versia Harris together with British/Barbadian artist Nick Whittle is residing at the IBB as part of the IBB’s Junior/Senior exchange program and our efforts for an exchange project and collaboration with the BCC. Nick unfortunately had to take sudden leave for family matters, but he plans to return to finish his residency in the near future.

Versia Harris (1991) is a Barbadian artist living and working in Weston, St. James. She graduated from the Barbados Community College with a BFA in the Studio Art program in 2012, with an award from The Leslie’s Legacy Foundation for the most promising student. She recently completed her second local residency at The Fresh Milk Art Platform and her first international residency at the Vermont Studio Center in Vermont. Versia explains that in her work she explores the fantasies and experiences of an original character. The character is introduced to Walt Disney animations, and consequently layers what she desires from these animations onto her life, especially her physical self. Her relationship to the world around her changes, as she compares her reality and the fantasy of Disney Animated stories. She struggles with her perception of self being in complete contrast with the Disney princesses.

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Sparked by her interest in storytelling, she created the character and story to generate a comparison between Walt Disney iconography and her reality. Despite the fabricated narrative, she addresses issues that intrigue her such as how one can be influenced by media and the process of comparing oneself to another of unrealistic standards. You can follow the artist on Tumblr or on Twitter @versiaharris

Versia also provided an animation workshop to the students at the IBB. Students were asked to work in groups of two to create their own character and make a short hand-drawn animation. Using Photoshop as a manipulation tool, students made short animations ranging from feel-good themes all the way to more dramatic subjects. The final results will also be presented during the night of Versia’s exhibition.

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We invite you to come and meet artist Versia Harris, experience her work and be transported to her amazing world of manipulated pen-drawn animations.

Date: Friday, October 25th 2013
Time: starts at 7p.m. sharp
Place: Instituto Buena Bista

For more information on the exhibition or the IBB please visit our website or call us weekdays at +5999 736 3605 and don’t forget to follow us on Facebook.