ART -ICULATING SOME THOUGHTS a presentation by ANNIE PAUL

ART- ICULATING SOME THOUGHTS

a presentation by

ANNIE PAUL

writer and critic

Wednesday 14th September 2011 at 7.00pm

@ 1.Shanthiroad Studio/Gallery

1.ShanthiRoad ,Shanthi Nagar,

Bangalore - 560027.

ART- ICULATING SOME THOUGHTS

My presentation will be a survey of noteworthy artistic interventions, exhibitions and articulations in the Anglophone Caribbean alongside a look at how art-making is being reformatted globally in the twenty-first century. My hypothesis is that the practice of Art in the Caribbean as in many other places is premised on notions of art that prevailed and flourished in the twentieth century; this being the formulation of a series of objects, actions or discursive events that circulated primarily, if not exclusively, within rareified art circuits. The idea is not to postulate anything but to raise some questions and hope for a stimulating debate with my audience.

ANNIE PAUL is a writer and critic based at the University of the West Indies, Mona, where she is head of the Publications Section at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies. Editor of the book Caribbean Culture: Soundings on Kamau Brathwaite Paul is the recipient of a grant from the Prince Claus Fund (Netherlands) in support of her book project on visual art and popular culture in postcolonial Jamaica. She was one of the founding editors of Small Axe (of which she remains an associate editor) and the original Caribbean Review of Books; she has been published in international journals and magazines such as Slavery & Abolition, Art Journal, South Atlantic Quarterly, Wasafiri, Callaloo, and Bomb. Paul has also been a contributor to the Brooklyn Museum’s Infinite Island show; GZTriennale, Documenta11; the AICA 2000 International Congress & Symposium at the Tate Gallery of Modern Art, Bankside, London; Meridien Masterpieces, BBC World Service; Dialogos Iberoamericanos (Valencia, Spain) and to forums sponsored by inIVA (Institute of International Visual Art, London).

Paul is author of the blog Active Voice and her website is: http://www.anniepaul.com/ . You can follow her on Twitter @anniepaul.