New York
MAS’: From Process to Procession
BRIC Rotunda Gallery |
2007 |
The exhibition introduced artists and an art collective who engaged with Caribbean carnivals and American festivals as potent vehicles for artistic practices with a public reach and a global appeal.More
Ralph Lemon: (the Efflorescence of) Walter
The Kitchen |
2007 |
The first New York solo exhibition of choreographer, dancer and visual artist Ralph Lemon included a body of work on the American South stemming from a sustained inquiry into the power of cultural memory.More
Robin Rhode: The Score
Artists Space |
2004 |
For his New York debut, visual artist Robin Rhode transformed into a human beat-box and playfully explored music and mimicry, performance and entertainment, in his signature wall drawings.More
Miami Beach
Tout-Monde Festival
Hétéronomonde
Multiple venues |
2018 |
Hétéronomonde, the first edition of the Tout-Monde Festival, traces the contours of contemporary Antillean and Caribbean artistic production at the junction of autonomy, heteronomy and Tout-Monde
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Tide by Side
Opening Processional Performance
Forum District Miami Beach |
2016 |
A people-powered processional performance to celebrate the opening of Miami Beach’s newest cultural district with people, food, and music while also pondering the importance of cultural communities amidst new urban developments.
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New Orleans
EN MAS’: Carnival and Performance Art of the Caribbean, Part 2
CAC New Orleans and ICI New York | 2015-17 |
Through a performance series, touring exhibition and catalogue, this multi-year, transnational project, considers the connections between Carnival and performance, masquerade and social criticism, diaspora and transnationalism. More
Public Practice
New Orleans Airlift | 2014 |
A ninety-minute afternoon street performance showcased the diversity of New Orleans processional culture as a counter to common representations of crime-ridden neighborhoods for the opening ceremony of a gun buy back.More
Rally Under the Bridge
New Orleans Airlift | 2014 |
A three-hour long diurnal performance curated as a series of rally heats brought together an unprecedented mix of car clubs, bikes clubs, horse clubs, quads, baton twirlers, color guard, in celebration of New Orleans bottom up creativity.More
Victor Harris, Spirit of Fi-Yi-Yi
New Orleans Museum of Art
Prospect. 1 New Orleans | 2008-09 |
The first retrospective exhibition of New Orleans Mardi Gras Indian Big Chief Fi YI YI featured a dozen remaining suits, shields and masks from Victor Harris near half-century of Mardi Gras Indian suiting.More
The Caribbean, multiple locations
EN MAS’: Carnival and Performance Art of the Caribbean, Part 1
CAC New Orleans | 2014-15 |
Through a performance series, touring exhibition and catalogue, this multi-year, transnational project, considers the connections between Carnival and performance, masquerade and social criticism, diaspora and transnationalism.More
Toulouse
etcetera: un rituel civique
(Part 2)
Printemps de septembre
| 2017 |
A series of networked sites throughout the city of Toulouse articulate scenes of displacement and dispossession even as members of communities engaged in cooking, role-playing, masking and other activities seek to reconstitute a contemporary civic ritual in the span of one September day.
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etcetera: rituel civique
(Part 1)
repas-performance harmonisé
Printemps de septembre
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2016 |
A musical meal performance creates the preliminary conditions for a contemporary civic ritual that is as much a place of memory as it is a space for diversity conceived for the first biennial edition of Printemps de septembre in Toulouse.
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Sharjah
Sharjah Biennial 14: Leaving the Echo Chamber
Look for Me All Around You
Sharjah Art Foundation
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2019 |
Leaving the Echo Chamber ponders the causal realities and residual qualities of the perpetual loop of incessant newsfeeds that have created the conditions of a seemingly inescapable echo chamber. Look for Me All Around You is one of three curatorial platform addressing this phenomenon
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PIRATE VANGUARD: ENCLAVES OF SELF-GOVERNANCE
A PROPOSAL FOR SHARJAH BIENNIAL (SB12)
Sharjah Art Foundation
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2013 (2015) |
Turning piracy inside out, PIRATE VANGUARD exposes the ambivalence of piratical practices as modes of resistance and (self-)governance in realms ranging from the enduring crisis of post-colonial polity to the contemporary controversy around intellectual property and the accelerated scramble over natural diversity.
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