Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Tancons, Claire
2. Thompson, Krista A., 1972-
3. Contemporary Arts Center (New Orleans, La.), host organization.

Description

1. 200 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 26 cm

Summary

1. ENMAS' is one of the first publications to give serious scholarly attention to contemporary art works considering carnival in the 21st century, filling a gap in two decades of exhibitions of contemporary Caribbean art that did not explicitly address carnival as an artistic practice. A hybrid exhibition catalogue and academic reader with a lively carnivalesque feel, it presents nine newly commissioned artist projects by John Beadle, Charles Campbell, Christophe Chassol, Nicolás Dumit Estévez, Marlon Griffith, Hew Locke, Ebony G. Patterson, Lorraine O'Grady and Cauleen Smith. The book also includes a timeline of diasporic pan-Caribbean carnivals, tracing the influence of Caribbean carnivals and festivals on the theater, dance, and Broadway stages in New York and London, in contemporary art galleries and biennials from São Paulo to Havana to Gwangju, at the Olympics as well as in protest and other movements.

Alternative title

1. Carnival and performance art of the Caribbean

Subject

1. Carnival
2. Performance art
3. Carnival > Caribbean Area > Exhibitions
4. Performance art > Caribbean Area > Exhibitions
5. Caribbean Area
6. Carnival in art
7. Exhibition catalogs

Genre/Form

1. Exhibition catalogs.

Contents

1. Farewell, farewell: Carnival, performance, and exhibition in the circum-Atlantic economy of the flesh / Claire Tancons -- "Our good democracy": the social and political practice of Carnival and Junkanoo aesthetics / Krista Thompson -- Counter-Carnival in a performance-friendly world / Shannon Jackson -- Theorizing Carnival: assemblages, becoming, cross-cultural machines / Kobena Mercer -- Broadway to biennial: a Carnival timeline 1930-2015 / Claire Tancons -- Nicolás Dumit Estévez, C Room. Vodoun and Carnival in Nicolás Dumit Estévez's C Room : a maroon reading / Alanna Lockward -- Christophe Chassol, Big Sun. In, off, through, above and beyond : cinema and Carnival / Yolande-Salomé Toumson -- Marlon Griffith, Positions + Power. Night and the city / Nicholas Laughlin -- Charles Campbell, Actor Boy : Fractal Engagement. Ways of (not) seeing and strategies of (in)visibility : Charles Campbell's Fractal engagement / Annie Paul -- Ebony G. Patterson, Invisible Presence : Bling Memories. The poetics of death and visibility : introducing Ebony G. Patterson's Invisible presence : bling memories / Petrina Dacres -- Cauleen Smith, H-E-L-L-O (Infra-Sound/Structure). Encountering Cauleen Smith's H-E-L-L-O (Infra-Sound/Structure) / D. Eric Bookhardt -- Hew Locke, Give and Take. Beyond the glitter : Hew Locke's Give and take / Paul Goodwin -- Lorraine O'Grady, Looking for a Headdress. Lorraine O'Grady : Looking / Thomas J. Lax -- John Beadle Inside-Out, Outside-In. Elegy / Erica Moiah James.

Call number

1. Sc F 20-31

Note

1. Published in conjunction with the exhibition En Mas' : Carnival and Performance Art of the Caribbean at the Contemporary Arts Center (CAC), New Orleans.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Title

1. En mas' : carnival and performance art of the Caribbean / editors: Claire Tancons, Krista Thompson.

Publisher

1. New York, NY : Independent Curators International (ICI) ; New Orleans, LA : Contemporary Arts Center, 2015.

Distributor

1. New York, NY : Distribution, D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.

Copyright date

1. ©2015

Type of content

1. text
2. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Local note

1. DIST. BY D.A.P. EXHIB. CAT. VARIOUS ARTISTS. CO- PUB. CAC NEW ORLEANS. VARYING PAGE SIZES/GATEFOLDS

Added author

1. Tancons, Claire, editor.
2. Thompson, Krista A., 1972- editor.
3. Contemporary Arts Center (New Orleans, La.), host organization.

ISBN

1. 0916365891
2. 9780916365899

Research call number

1. Sc F 20-31