Performance Art Practices from the Caribbean and its Diasporas
This long-term research and exhibition project investigates a broad range of performance and performative practices by artists from the Caribbean or of Caribbean descent working on in the region or its diasporas. It features an intergenerational group of artists—from pioneers in the field to emerging artists—who employ the body or rely on bodily experience and live action to critically engage with the social, political and cultural reality in their respective contexts. Focusing on process, and examining the relationship with space, matter or other media, as well as frequently relying on audience interaction and participation, the performance artists highlighted in this project create work that redefine traditional art-making practices, while often proposing renewed narratives of healing and freedom. Approached from a transnational perspective, this ongoing project seeks to enable new thinking about the critical commonalities and differences across heterogeneous and geographically dispersed performance art practices.
Beyond Representation unfolds through a series of live art events that will be contextualized and discussed through interviews or essays that will be published in CCI Forum. Additionally, the project will also comprise a series of video-performances and/or documentation of performances by artists from the Caribbean or Caribbean heritage presented in PAMMTV. Exploring performance in relation to digital media will enable a broader understanding of the multifaceted and rich array of performative practices that have emerged in the Caribbean and its diasporas in recent decades.
