Relational undercurrents
Subtitle: contemporary art of the Caribbean archipelago
By: edited by Tatiana Flores and Michelle A. Stephens
Contributors: Museum of Latin American Art; Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA (Project)
Publisher: Museum of Latin American Art; SF Design / Fresco Books
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9781934491577; 9781934491584
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Caribbean Art; Artistic Photography; Exhibitions
Description: Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago' will call attention to a region of the Americas that is difficult to categorize and often overlooked: the island nations of the Caribbean. The exhibition proposes an archipelagic model defining the Caribbean from the perspective of its archipelago of islands, as distinct from the continental experience to study issues around race, history, the legacy of colonialism, and the environment. The exhibition features artists from the Hispanophone, Anglophone, Francophone, and Dutch Caribbean. Relational Undercurrents will emphasize the thematic continuities of art made throughout the archipelago and its diasporas, challenging conventional geographic and conceptual boundaries of Latin America. This approach draws particular attention to issues arising from the colonial legacy that are relevant to Latin America as a whole, but which emerge as central to the work of 21st-century Caribbean artists, including Janine Antoni (Bahamas), Humberto Diáz (Cuba), Jorge Pineda (Dominican Republic), and Allora & Calzadilla (Puerto Rico).
Notes: Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name held at the Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California, September 16, 2017-February 25, 2018, curated by Tatiana Flores as part of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: pt. I RELATIONAL UNDERCURRENTS: CONTEMPORARY ART OF THE CARIBBEAN ARCHIPELAGO; title: Relational Undercurrents: Toward An Archipelagic Model Of Insular Caribbean Art / Tatiana Flores and Michelle A. Stephens; title: Inscribing Into Consciousness: The Work Of Caribbean Art / Tatiana Flores; title: Catalogue Images; title: pt. II THE CARIBBEAN ISLANDS AND THEIR DIASPORAS; title: Actes De Transformation: Mixing And Mapping Of Haitian Aesthetics / Jerry Philogene; title: Among The Islands: Dominican Art At Home And Abroad / Rocío Aranda-Alvarado; title: A Local History In The Global Narrative: Notes On Cuban Art Between Two Centuries / Antonio Eligio (Tonel); title: Aglutinación: The Collective Spirit Of Puerto Rican Art / Laura Roulet; title: pt. III THE ARCHIPELAGIC CARIBBEAN; title: On Metaphysical Catastrophe, Post-Continental Thought, And The Decolonial Turn / Nelson Maldonado-Torres; title: There are no islands without the sea being a compendium of facts, fictions, names, etymologies, lyrics, and questions, in the form of a broken-up archipelago / Nicholas Laughlin; title: Arc'd Relations: Archive And Archipelago In The Greater Caribbean / Michelle A. Stephens; title: Exhibition Checklist; title: Artist Biographies / Kaitlyn Argila, Diego Atehortúa, and Kaitlin Booher.