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Healing and self-healing thematics are emerging frequently in the creations and reflections of artists. Many thanks to Dominique Brebion of AICA-South Caribbean for offering the space to expand on how the thematics of healing operates in my eco-social art practice.
Read MoreLate in 2021, Women On the Move (WeMOV) invited me to be one of their stakeholders. WeMOV is a network of researchers engaged in the timely mission of unveiling women migrants' presence and participation in the construction of Europe. As an artist, curator, and writer, who sits on the periphery of these engagements, the following conversation celebrates borderlessness through all veins of my life.
Read MoreNatalie McGuire-Batson writes for Issue 2 of Faire Mondes on curatorial approaches across the Caribbean region that have challenged and dismantled exclusionary global frameworks in visual art engagement. Nestled within this conversation with Annalee Davis and Katherine Kennedy, we discuss the collaborative projects that have birthed diverse archipelagic connections in an attempt to expand self-determination in a Caribbean curatorial context.
Read MoreIt is an honour to share this interview with writer, shaman, healer and my SiStar, Helen Klonaris. In "Catching Spirit," I sit at the feet of my elder as she shares on the uprising of ancestral technologies how to resource one's self through the dark night of the soul while sharing practices around trauma-healing and restoration/reparation. Helen opens her heart space and looks gently and candidly at the Caribbean's evolving social, developmental and spiritual ecosystems, expanding perspectives on how alternative healing methods and processes can innovate our strategies of thrival.
Read MoreAn organisation based on the Grenadine island of Bequia is working to positively influence the youth of the island and to uplift creativity and advance culture. Working along the intersection of arts non-profit and social entrepreneurship in Small Island Development States (SIDS), cultural innovation can be a powerful tool to transform our societies.
Read MoreBahamian Art & Culture shares an exclusive and intimate interview, as I reflect on the work done after four + years as Chief Curator of NAGB. I share my experiences while at the institution, thoughts on the Bahamian art community, all-around successes and regrets, what I would have done differently.
Read More"Conversations in Isolation" is a series of ongoing dialogues with artists, writers, social scientists, queer activists, curatorial collectives, historians and indigenous thinkers, around the effects of COVID-19 in our local and global contexts from a Central American and Caribbean perspective. These conversations published periodically in Buchaca Generosa [Generous Pocket], a biweekly digital magazine edited by Daniela Morales Lisac and M. Paola Malavasi, and published by TEOR/éTica. For Buchaca #4, I speak with Miguel A. Lopez about implications for the Caribbean creative ecology and more personally towards the opportunity of this moment.
Read MoreNational institutions in the Caribbean are in a unique position to focus on expanding beyond the "National," by cultivating an ethos that impacts its local audiences that can be felt beyond their shores through dynamic programming which remains critical of its position, history and stories. Dominican artist Joiri Minaya unearths the intention behind her socio/political and feminist pracitce as a part of the Double Dutch series of intra-Caribbean exhibitions.
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