Published on the occasion of the exhibition Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990s-Today, organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, November 19, 2022-April 23, 2023, Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, October 5, 2023-February 24, 2024, and Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, April 6-July 8, 2024. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
On thinking and being Caribbean: a roundtable discussion, part I -- Director's foreword / Madeleine Gynsztein -- Curator's acknowledgments / Carla Acevedo-Yates -- Forecast form: reframing the Caribbean through the mechanics of diaspora / Carla Acevedo-Yates -- Forms and frames: assessing contemporary curating in the Caribbean / Carlos Garrido Castellano -- Before the wake: tracing African signals within uncontainable Caribbean abstraction / Genevieve Hyacinthe -- The Caribbean as diaspora: from exile to affirmation / Aaron Kamugisha -- After Juracán: geospecific identity in the history and art of Abya Yala / Mayra Santos-Febres -- On thinking and being Caribbean: a roundtable discussion, part II.
Summary:
"The Caribbean diaspora is a global phenomenon that transgresses political boundaries, identities, and histories. Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora 1990s-Today challenges conventional representations of Caribbean art, focusing on art of the diaspora rather than art defined by static geographic, ethnic, linguistic, and historical categories. Featuring essays by a group of multi-dimensional authors and works by an intergenerational group of artists living and working in the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, Great Britain, France, the expanded Caribbean Basin, and the island nations of the Caribbean, the catalogue is informed by Caribbean intellectual traditions, diaspora studies, and Black and alternative geographies of fugitivity"-- Provided by publisher.
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