Prospect New Orleans (Exhibition) (5th : 2021-2022 : New Orleans, La.)
Title:
Prospect.5 New Orleans : yesterday we said tomorrow / editors, Naima J. Keith, Diana Nawi ; essayists, Jeffrey U Darensbourg [and five others] ; photo essayist, L. Kasimu Harris ; poet, Robin Coste Lewis ; contributors, Carlos Agredano [and twenty-nine others].
Publisher:
Rizzoli Electa ;
Copyright Date:
2021
Description:
271 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 x 21 cm
Published on the occasion of the exhibition presented throughout the City of New Orleans, October 23, 2021-January 23, 2022. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
You betta recognize, ya heard me / L. Kasimu Harris -- Second line / Robin Cost Lewis -- Yesterday we said tomorrow / Naima J. Keith and Diana Nawi -- Looking forward, looking back / Naima J. Keith -- Signs preceding the end of the world / Diana Nawi -- Bulbancha: honoring indigenous culturea of the area in a single word / Jeffery U. Darensbourg -- Time as a proposal / Amber Rose Johnson and Meg Onli -- New Orleans: the labyrinth of history / Kristina Kay Robinson -- At the edge of life / Thomas J. Lax -- I. History and haunting -- II. Landscape and the natural world -- III. Performance, ritual, and the public sphere -- IV. Intimacy, life, and death -- Felicite / Robin Coste Lewis.
Summary:
Prospect New Orleans is a citywide contemporary art triennial that was conceived in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Emphasising collaborative partnerships and site-specificity, Prospect presents artwork by local, national, and international artists in both traditional and highly unexpected environments. In the third iteration of this major exhibition, curators Naima Keith and Diana Nawi bring together 51 artists to engage New Orleans as context as they reconsider the concept of history, both global and local. Through many artistic strategies, architectural interventions, and public activations, the exhibition explores current social and political conditions that ask for a reconsideration of the past. The accompanying catalogue a collection of contributions from curators, poets, artists, and cultural critics considers several key themes that animate the ambitious artist projects: landscape and the natural world; history and haunting; ritual and performance; intimacy, life, and death.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.