Black Diaspora Art symposium Frank Collymore Hall in Barbados.

> Black Diaspora Art symposium will take place February 13 & 14, 2009 at Frank Collymore Hall in Barbados. This event is being organized by U.K. artist/curator David A Bailey in collaboration with the National Art Gallery Committee (NAGC). Other
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> The symposium will take as its starting point Stuart Hall and questions he poses in his essay called “Modernity and Its Others: Three Moments In The Post–war History of the Black Diaspora Arts” . The symposium will explore some of the themes in Hall’s paper but will focus more on a contemporary Caribbean context looking at local, national and international issues such as: the returning artists experience, the history of art in the Caribbean and the last 15 years of Caribbean initiatives .
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> A number of local, regional and international scholars, curators and artists who have made key contributions in this area have been invited to Barbados to participate. Multi-sited exhibitions will be staged around Bridgetown by Barbadian and international artists .
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> For further information on the Symposium and exhibitions call the NAGC Secretariat at 1-246-228-7523; To register for this symposium please visit the NAGC website at: http://www.nagc.bb/ fill out the registration form and email to the NAGC at nagcsymposium@gmail.com.
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> BLACK DIASPORA VISUAL ART:
> SYMPOSIUM, FILM PRESENTATIONS AND EXHIBITIONS.
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> PROGRAMME
> DAY 1 – Friday February 13th, 2009
> 8:30 – 9:00am Registration
> 9:00am - WELCOME address
> KEYNOTE address by Stuart Hall
> RESPONSE to the Keynote address
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> 1st Panel Discussion: Based on the keynote and the response.
> Chaired by Thelma Golden, Studio Museum
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> 1:00pm – 2:00pm - LUNCH
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> 2nd Panel Discussion: Is there a Caribbean canon; can we discuss a Caribbean
> aesthetic in the 21st century; institutional models and exploring the different ways
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> Chaired by Lowery Sims, Museum of Arts & Design, New York
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> Film presentation and discussion with Kara Walker
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> DAY 2 – Saturday February 14th, 2009
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> 3rd Panel Discussion: The Caribbean canon con’t
> Chaired by Richard Powell, Duke University
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> 12:00noon – 1:00pm - LUNCH
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> Tour of exhibition and installation sites and galleries in Bridgetown
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> Indrani Gall, Sheena Rose, Ewan Atkinson and Ingrid Persaud,
> Arthur Edwards and Frances Ross, Joscelyn Gardner, Caroline
> Holder, Ingrid Pollard, Gary Stewart and Trevor Mathison.
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> Film presentation and discussion with Alfredo Jaar
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> Panelists include: Gerardo Mosquera, Nicholas Mirzoeff, Veerle
> Poupeye, Krista Thompson, Teka Selman and Leon Wainwright.
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