#alice yard

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           Trinidad and Tobago Artist Christopher Cozier @ Documenta 15

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Alice Yard, Trinidad, in 2014

Photo by Andre Bagoo from his blog entry “Find or make your space”

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Lovin' loving this flyer design and copy for an upcoming international exhibition at Artspace called, Most Things Happen When I Am Asleep. Featuring contributions by La Agencia from Colombia, Beta-Local from Puerto Rico, Alice Yard from Trinidad and Tobago, TEOR/ética from Costa Rica, and Cemeti Institute for Art and Society from Indonesia.

"The exhibition showcases work from these places as well as offering modest proposals on how institutes can evolve, develop and constantly change, actively connecting Aotearoa to the geography and social urgencies of Indonesia, Costa Rica, Colombia, Puerto Rico and Trinidad and Tobago."

See more here: https://bit.ly/2GNm0Ma

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Really happy about this, BUT would love it even more to see some women here too, as there as so many excellent voices to be included.

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https://www.instagram.com/p/Ce1IdPeMVi-/...#actionintheyarddocumenta 15Time Magazine 

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The Caribbean Digital Virtual Artist's Residency 2022

Alice Yard is delighted to partner with The Caribbean Digital to launch a new virtual residency programme for artists of the Caribbean and its diasporas who work in digital media. The Caribbean Digital Virtual Artist's Residency 2022 opens for applications today, with a deadline of 31 March. The residency aims to facilitate the development of new artworks in digital media that investigate ideas and practices in Caribbean Digital Humanities, and engage with scholars in the TCD network and community.

It consists of: • a cash stipend of US$5,000 to support six months of part-time research and creative work, to begin in June 2022; • curatorial mentorship by artist and Alice Yard co-director Christopher Cozier; • two virtual studio visits by professional curators or critics; • the commissioning and online publication of a critical text by a professional art writer to document the artist’s work and process; • arranged travel and accommodation to present the resulting work at TCD’s annual conference in December 2022.

See further information, including eligibility and application guidelines, at The Caribbean Digital website: http://caribbeandigitalnyc.net/residency/ For any queries about eligibility requirements or the application process, please contact the residency administrators at [email protected]. === The Caribbean Digital conference (TCD) is an international event hosted annually at locations in the United States and the Caribbean since 2014. Alternating between larger conferences and smaller symposia, TCD has created a singular and consistent space of exchange for Caribbeanist digital scholars, consisting of traditional panels, roundtable conversations, skills-building workshops, and project show-and-tells. http://caribbeandigitalnyc.net/ Alice Yard is a contemporary art collective, based at Granderson Lab, 24 Erthig Road, Belmont, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. Since September 2006, we have hosted a programme of artists’ projects and exhibitions, performances, discussions, readings, film screenings, and other events. Alice Yard also runs an informal residency programme, bringing artists, curators, and others to Port of Spain. http://aliceyard.org

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Sexypink* ALICE YARD moves...Thirteen years, four and a half months later.... Thanks to everyone who joined us on our walk this afternoon, and everyone who's joined us in the experiment of Alice Yard since 2006. We're now at Granderson Lab, 24 Erthig Road, Belmont, and there's no end in sight.

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#BelmontBabyDolls collaborate with Berlin/Toronto artist, Shannon Lewis @lolas_venus (recently in residence at @aliceyardinsta) for its 2019 presentation “Carnival Baby” for Trinidad Carnival 2019. 

The artist writes:

“In Get Me Bodied, shapeshifting is an adaptation. It is the work we do to be able to move between spaces, classes, and geographies. But what does that work — the constant reworking — do to our bodies or our minds? It is about the performance and the objects that we collect along the way. We primp, preen, fix up — look sharp, grow, develop appendages that are useful until they’re not. It is about mobility, intersecting with sexuality, gender, race, immigration, class, economics, and social climbing. “The task of a migrant is to learn the anatomy of a new society and reconstruct yourself in a new accommodating form. This framework and your performance in it are never invisible to you. So you either become flexible with the constant social contortions, or you fold over and break. The work sits in a space that contemplates the push and pull of this operation. It sits in a space that has fun with high femme performance fantasy and total exhaustion. Self-making as sport, for access and for life.” Shannon Lewis is a Canadian-born, Berlin-based artist with Trinidadian roots, whose practice encompasses painting, installation, and performance. She has exhibited in Canada, the United States, Britain, and Germany. She has a BA from OCADU in Toronto (2006) and an MFA from Goldsmiths, University of London (2014).   Belmont Baby Dolls OPEN BOOK, with drawings and text by Amanda McIntyre. 

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A note on ‘Sailors’ with Adam Patterson

SAILOR MAS takes distinct form in the Caribbean, but really the sailor is a universal symbol. A sailor is someone who crosses water. Before he was a poet, Langston Hughes was a sailor who explored. 

We were both inspired by Hughes. We discussed sexuality’s mediation through a sea of oblique encounters - be it in books, on screens, through spyglasses. For me, making a film poem fit. I wanted vast complexity relegated to a small screen in a small corner, mirroring how queer sexuality in Trinidad and Tobago is often suppressed and gazed at furtively in discrete recesses. Hughes, who visited Trinidad and had ties to this country, is the perfect symbol of how queerness is dismissed and etherised by straight power.

Also, I wanted to suggest we should think of poetic form more widely. Just as poetry works through what is withheld, so does it gain by what is absorbed. All art is poetry, Heidegger said. And performance need not be a grand gesture. In fact, it’s the supposedly smaller everyday performance via laptop screens or in quiet corners that matter. As the opening line of my poem suggests, Hughes was a performer all his life.

Finally, it felt right on the night of the event last Sunday at Alice Yard to have proximity to Adam’s stationary maypole, a reference to the Barbados landship tradition. For me, this proximity came to embody the idea of dance through negation; of impulses that could be acted upon left dangling; of horizons yet to be explored.

Read more here.