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Event date
Tuesday, February 5, 2013 - 09:00
Location
The Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam (KIT, Royal Tropical Institute)

Petrina Dacres, Caribbean art in the present  During the 1960s art was an integral aspect of governmental policy in Jamaica. That support has dwindled over the last few decades; moreover, as governments change so too have art policies changed and projects been disrupted. In these contexts, artists and curators have created their own independent projects. Using a number of case studies, this presentation will examine several art-related initiatives in Jamaica.

Event date
Tuesday, February 5, 2013 - 09:00
Location
The Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam (KIT, Royal Tropical Institute)

Nicholas Morris, Randnotizen: Notes from the edge  The practice of ‘art’ – taken here to mean communication through the expressive manipulation of objects – is the flash-lit tracing of a fragmentary map: like an arrow shot or a line drawn from point to point on a surface, an artwork flares to briefly illuminate the location of the artist and his or her imagination for the waiting receiver.

Event date
Tuesday, February 5, 2013 - 09:00
Location
The Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam (KIT, Royal Tropical Institute)

Wouter  Welling, The Afrika Museum (Berg en Dal) and Caribbean art: Collecting and presenting contemporary art from the Dutch Antilles, Haiti, Cuba and beyond  Since the last decade of the twentieth century the Afrika Museum has focused its exhibitions on contemporary art from Africa and the African diaspora. As a curator Welling is especially interested in artists with a global orientation using local sources rooted in African spiritual traditions.

Event date
Tuesday, February 5, 2013 - 09:00
Location
The Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam (KIT, Royal Tropical Institute)

Erica M. James, Dreams of Utopia  During the past few years in the United States many arts bloggers have shared a proposal by noted curator and arts administrator Renny Pritikin, entitled “Facets of a Healthy Art Scene”.

Event date
Tuesday, February 5, 2013 - 09:00
Location
The Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam (KIT, Royal Tropical Institute)

Kitty Zijlmans, Art’s agency on contemporary Curaçao: Tirzo Martha’s “Blijf maar plakken” and the Instituto Buena Bista  This presentation will give an example of how a contemporary artwork – or rather art practice – can help to forge a sustainable community in the Caribbean ‘bottom up’, with an outreach to its diaspora. The work in question is Curaçaon artist, Tirzo Martha’s art project “Blijf maar plakken” (translated literally as “just keep adding on”, but with a further connotation which will be clarified).

Event date
Tuesday, February 5, 2013 - 09:00
Location
The Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam (KIT, Royal Tropical Institute)

Tirzo Martha, Captain Caribbean vs. Anansi colonialism  Growing up on the island of Curaçao between the 1960’s and the 1980’s was a surreal experience. Social and political instability had a direct impact on the community. The revolt that took place on May 30th 1969 has stood as an example of how extreme and out of hand the situation had become. The island suffered social and economic decay which created the conditions for corruption and abuses of power in political, governmental and social structures. In several neighborhoods you could see and feel its abatement.

Event date
Tuesday, November 20, 2012 - 10:00
Location
Vienna

The project is designed to initiate new relationships and exchanges among the academic, policy, curating and artistic communities. Supported by the European Science Foundation (Humanities in the European Research Area, HERA). Traumatic pasts have complex and often dramatic influences on the present. The conference will explore creative engagements with controversial pasts in art practice, curating and museums, establishing a dialogue among diverse participants. Read more about our theme and aims on the project website www.open.ac.uk/Arts/disturbing-pasts/.

Event date
Sunday, October 17, 2010 - 23:00
Location
London

Andrew Dewdney, David Dibosa and Victoria Walsh interview with art historian Leon Wainwright, as part of ‘Tate Encounters: Britishness and Visual Culture’, a three-year research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council through the Diasporas, Migration and Identities Programme, which commenced in April 2007. Collaborating institutions: Tate Britain, London South Bank University and the University of the Arts London, through Chelsea College.

Event date
Tuesday, February 5, 2013 - 09:00
Location
The Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam (KIT, Royal Tropical Institute)

On 5-6 February 2013, the Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam (KIT, Royal Tropical Institute) hosted the project conference ‘Sustainable Art Communities: Creativity and Policy in the Transnational Caribbean’. This is part of a two-year international research project led by Dr Leon Wainwright (The Open University, UK), with Co-Investigator Professor Dr Kitty Zijlmans (Leiden University), funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC, UK).

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