Tilting Axis Archives
One (2015)
Tilting Axis is a roving project conceptualized by ARC Magazine and the Fresh Milk Art Platform Inc. The first iteration was hosted at Fresh Milk in Barbados on February 27 + 28, 2015 under the banner Tilting Axis: Within and Beyond the Caribbean | Shifting Models of Sustainability and Connectivity. The two-day conference brought together independent art organisations and museums operating across the Caribbean, U.S., E.U. and China. The goal of the meeting was to negotiate strategic regional and international alliances for the further development of infrastructure, production and markets for the Caribbean's visual arts sector.
One and a half (2015)
At the invitation of Videobrasil’s director, Solange Farkas, the core organizations of Tilting Axis — The Fresh Milk Art Platform Inc, ARC Magazine and the Pérez Art Museum Miami — had the opportunity to participate in the Public Programme at the 19th Sesc_Festival in Sao Paulo on October 8th, 2015.
Two (2016)
The inaugural edition of the Caribbean-driven visual arts conference Tilting Axis took place last year at The Fresh Milk Art Platform Inc. in Barbados. This initial encounter saw thirty-two arts professionals spanning the Anglophone, Francophone, Hispanic and Dutch Caribbean convene for the first time on Caribbean soil alongside a number of international participants. Building on this experience, Tilting Axis 2 took place at the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) on February 19 and 20, 2016, with more than double the previous number of attendees coming together to discuss this year’s topic ‘Caribbean Strategies’.
Three (2017)
The National Gallery of the Cayman Islands (NGCI) welcomed over 80 guests to Tilting Axis, a roving meeting conceptualized by ARC Magazine and the Fresh Milk Art Platform Inc., that moves in and out of the Caribbean region on an annual basis.
Curatorial Fellowship 2017: Nicole Smythe-Johnson
The curatorial fellowship is a direct outcome of the Tilting Axis meetings in 2015 at Fresh Milk in Barbados and in 2016 at the Pérez Art Museum Miami. Scotland based cultural partners CCA Glasgow, David Dale Gallery, Hospitalfield and curatorial collective Mother Tongue produced a structural long-term fellowship for an emerging contemporary art practitioner living and working in the Caribbean.
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Four (2018)
The fourth convening of Tilting Axis is set to take place in the Dominican Republic in collaboration with Curando Caribe and two institutions — Centro León and Centro Cultural de España in Santo Domingo — between two cities — Santiago and Santo Domingo — as we aim to shift our location and context to the Hispanophone Caribbean with our theme Caribbean Cultural Ecologies: Connecting Pasts, Presents and Futures. Artists, curators, stakeholders, instigators and activists will debate ideas about the Caribbean’s interdependent future in relation to culture, the nature, technology and the role of institutions while sharing creative ways which reimagine our collective futures in relationship with our particular environment and with each other.
Five (2019)
Beyond Trends: Decolonisation and Art Criticism will explore the theme of decolonisation—thinking beyond its currently popular usage as cultural and institutional critique. Unlike its application to specific sites and processes, has decolonisation been a constant and ubiquitous practice in the Caribbean? This gathering will re-consider the currency of these discourses, identifying site-specificity within the Caribbean. For example, what does it mean for art institutions to negotiate decolonisation after postcoloniality? What different approaches can be deployed in decolonising discourses—specifically in relation to art criticism—and made more visible in spaces where their prevalence renders them invisible?
Curatorial Fellowship 2019: Natalie Willis
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