Full Description
This edited volume reframes the Caribbean as a paradigm of ecological resilience and creativity by bringing together the voices of contemporary artists and scholars who are at the forefront of environmental activism in the region and across its diasporas. While dominant narratives percolating from the environmental sciences to the mainstream press present the Caribbean as a frontier of planetary disaster, the contributors to this volume show how the region offers radical models for overcoming the environmental challenges of the present. At the heart of this argument lies the history of the Caribbean as a centre for grassroots forms of anti-colonial and anti-capitalist resistance founded upon nature-centred cosmologies and practices. Caribbean Eco-Aesthetics shows how contemporary artists are mobilising this radical heritage in a bid to unlock alternative planetary futures.
Contents
Introduction — Kate Keohane, Daniella Rose King, Giulia Smith
Part I: Caribbean livingness
1 Hurricane praxis: visual conversations about hurricanes and climate change in the Caribbean — Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert
2 Between the stars, the sea and the soil: ecological poetics in art of the Caribbean and its diasporas — Daniella Rose King
3 Earthkin precarious and heroic: La Vaughn Belle's Crucian ancient futures — Genevieve Hyacinthe
4 Offshore imaginations: Nadia Huggins and Kimberly Palmer in conversation — Nadia Huggins and Kimberly Palmer
Part II: Sacred spaces
5 The sacred undersea in Caribbean eco-aesthetics — Mimi Sheller
6 I, Ixora — Andil Gosine
7 Antonius Roberts: sacred spaces — Giulia Smith
Part III: Extraction and repair
8 Ecologic entanglements: artistic interventions in the Plantationocene — Annalee Davis and Kate Keohane
9 Sonia E. Barrett's bodies of evidence — Catherine Spencer
10 All that grounds us — Diana McCaulay
Part IV: Art ecologies
11 Visualising the Capitalocene and creating a planetary art world from an artist atelier in Santo Domingo — Carlos Garrido Castellano
12 Rhizomatic research and curatorial ecologies in Trinidad and Tobago and Barbados — Natalie McGuire
13 The geography of production: a conversation between Tatiana Flores and Christopher Cozier — Christopher Cozier and Tatiana Flores
