Second Conference

This is the second conference for the ‘Sustainable Art Communities: Creativity and Policy in the Transnational Caribbean’ project, which is taking place at the Institute for International Visual Arts (Iniva, London) on 3rd and 4th December, 2013. ‘Sustainable Art Communities’ is 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).

Alex van Stipriaan, Remy’s and Marcel’s community/ties  This presentation will be focused on two artists – Remy Jungerman (1959) and Marcel Pinas (1971) – who were both born in or around the small mining town of Moengo, Suriname. Although no more than twelve years apart in age, they seem to belong to different generations in their respective careers. Nevertheless, these career paths cross with increasing frequency, and Moengo is their meeting and workplace, as well as a point of reference.