Tilting Axis 5
(May 29th-31st, 2019)
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French:
La 5ème édition de Tilting Axis 5, « Au-delà des tendances : décolonisation et critique d'art », explorera le thème de la décolonisation du discours critique au-delà de son usage fonctionnel actuel de simple critique culturelle et institutionnelle. Contrairement à son application à des sites et processus spécifiques, la décolonisation est-elle une pratique radicale et continue dans les Caraïbes ? Cette question sera étudiée ainsi que la circulation de ces discours, pour tenter d’identifier leur actualité et leurs spécificités selon les sites de la Caraïbe. Par exemple, que signifie pour les institutions d’art la négociation de la décolonisation dans un période postcoloniale ? Quelles approches singulières peuvent être déployées pour décoloniser les discours – en, particulier en ce qui concerne la critique artistique - et les rendre plus audibles dans les espaces où le discours critique a traditionnellement peu de prévalence et d’audience?
En examinant le rôle des artistes, conservateurs, éducateurs, érudits, écrivains d’art, d’agents d’artistes et de rédacteur de politiques, etc., seront interrogés les moyens de mobiliser de manière stratégique des discours sur la décolonisation soient utiles au secteur culturel de la Caraïbe.
Les participants de Tilting Axis sont tenus de payer des frais d’inscription de 75 USD.
Les frais d'inscription sont supprimés pour les participants locaux.
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Panel 1
Dominique Brebion | Jocelyn Valton | Hrag Vartanian.
Moderator: Mario A. Caro.
Break-out Session #1:
Words as Weapons: Decolonising Art Criticism break-out session will explore how art criticism as a practice in the Caribbean is (mis)understood and how it is being regenerated in this context through online blogs, self-publishing, institutional programming and publications, informal conversations, etc. We will focus on the broader challenges of democratising art criticism, the established power relations within criticism, and the usefulness of criticism being deployed as a tool to gather a more authentic and expansive tool of learning and empowerment.
Panel 2
Mireille Badamie | Charles Campbell | Laurella Rinçon.
Moderator: Johanna Auguaic
Break-out Session #2:
Mashing up the Canon break-out session will explore provocative approaches enacted across the archipelago to co-write multiple narratives, challenging how the Caribbean continues to be determined by prevailing neocolonialist ideologies that perpetuate disempowerment and the demise of arts ecologies in the region.
What are examples of Caribbean cultural institutions confronting inequities in its arts ecology or institutions further afield that have mirrored concerns? Where are the striking examples of cultural workers challenging systemic injustices, cultural biases, and dominant ideologies?
Panel 3
Erin Christovale | Carlos Motta | Jerry Philogene
Moderator — Tobias Ostrander
Break-out Session #3:
In the related break-out session, we want to seek out different approaches being deployed across the wider Caribbean, for example by artist-led initiatives or as expressed by artists exploring decolonisation in their practice. Colonisation in Reverse requires we all show up to the frontline to express discontent with the conscription of artists’ works as product for the marketplace and an answer to economic crises faced by many Small Island Developing States.
Artist Lisandro Suriel has been selected for the 2019/20 Tilting Axis Fellowship. Selected from an open call process, Suriel will visit Scotland in October 2019 to undertake a period of open-ended research and development into alternative forms of Collections and Commissioning, in collaboration with partners across Scotland whose work focuses on various forms of collecting, archiving or supporting the development of artworks. The fellowship focuses on the development of pragmatic and critical curatorial and artistic practice hailing from the Caribbean region and is research and practice-led, and mentor-based.
The Tilting Axis Fellowship is a direct outcome of the Tilting Axis meetings in 2015 at Fresh Milk in Barbados, in 2016 at the Pérez Art Museum Miami and in 2017 at The National Gallery of the Cayman Islands. For its 2019 iteration, Scotland based cultural partners including the Glasgow School of Art, The School of Art History at the University of St Andrews, CCA Glasgow, LUX Scotland, Hospitalfield and curatorial duo Mother Tongue have come together to offer support for a research fellowship to Scotland for an emerging contemporary art practitioner to share knowledge about current approaches towards commissioning and collecting in the arts.
Lisandro Suriel will also have the opportunity to work with LUX Scotland to devise a screening programme drawing on their research into the LUX collection.
This included speaking with artists, curators, theoreticians, cultural workers, and activists, who debated ideas about the Caribbean’s interdependent future around the theme of decolonization, thinking beyond its currently popular usage as cultural and institutional critique.
Tilting Axis is grateful to NLS for producing this series of four conversations. Special thanks to Jordan Harrison whose participation was supported by Rubis Mécénat cultural fund in Jamaica as an NLS intern. And gratitude to Hrag Vartanian of Hyperallergic for recording the interviews.
Group 1: Tobias Ostrander, Annalee Davis, and Jacques Martial
Topic: Developing a framework and programming for Tilting Axis 5th iteration. What does it mean for art institutions such as Memorial Acte to negotiate decolonization after postcoloniality?
Group 2: Jerry Philogene, Dominique Brebion, Tiffany Boyle, and Kelly Sinnapah Mary
Topic: Changes and evolutions of art criticism in the Caribbean and diaspora
Group 3: Carlos Motta, Paulo Miyada and Natalie Willis
Topic: What does the process of decolonization entail in the context of Caribbean institutions, organizations, art criticism and art practices?
Group 4: Manthia Diawara, Edouard Duval- Carrie and Lise Ragbir
Topic: New perspectives on decolonization
Welcome Cocktail
Registration
Welcome addresses
Permanent Exhibition Tour
Manthia Diawara Keynote
Words as Weapons (Mario Dominique Jocelyn + Hrag)
TA Fellowship Annoucement (Tiffany Boyle)
Bénédicte Alliot Presentation
Carte Blanche Edouard Duval-Carrié
Panel 3: Colonisation in Reverse Tobias Ostrander, Erin Christovale, Carlos Motta + Jerry Philogene