Beyond Representation in Contemporary Caribbean Art

Carlos Garrido Castellano is a lecturer at the Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies Department at Cork University in Cork, Ireland and a researcher at the University Lisbon in Portugal.

• ContentsIntroduction   1          Being Here and There. Curatorial-specific Approaches to Caribbean Reality                        2          Caribbean Art Institutions, Critique and the Public Sphere  3          Art Melting in Site-Specificity. Performance Art and Public Space in the Dominican Republic4          Towards a Diasporic Counterstreaming Caribbean Imagination                     5          Subversive Alliances. Collaborative Agency beyond RepresentationCoda: Artistic Agency, Space, and the Praxis of Caribbean StudiesBibliography  Index

"This book is not only valuable for breaking ground as a scholarly approach to Caribbean contemporary art and art curation as a whole, but for doing so in a much needed radical way, confronting prevailing stereotypes about the region and its cultures. Its discourse assumes the implicated complexities instead of reducing them. This is probably due to a manifold approach based both on thorough research and on the author's own direct, committed involvement with the diverse artistic practices in the islands, and with socially engaged art in particular."— Gerardo Mosquer, Founder of the Havana Biennale, Independent art critic, historian and curator"Reading this book immediately impressed upon me new ways of interpreting Caribbean art and art practices. Garrido Castellano has not created a framework for prescriptive viewing but challenges us to find different spaces of enunciation that our artists allow us to enter through their imaginative freedoms."— Patricia Mohammed, author of Imaging the Caribbean: Culture and Visual TranslationCritique d'art excerpt of Beyond Representation by Carlos Garrido Castellano  — Critique d'art"Reading this book immediately impressed upon me new ways of interpreting Caribbean art and art practices. Garrido Castellano has not created a framework for prescriptive viewing but challenges us to find different spaces of enunciation that our artists allow us to enter through their imaginative freedoms."— Patricia Mohammed, author of Imaging the Caribbean: Culture and Visual TranslationCritique d'art excerpt of Beyond Representation by Carlos Garrido Castellano  — Critique d'art"This book is not only valuable for breaking ground as a scholarly approach to Caribbean contemporary art and art curation as a whole, but for doing so in a much needed radical way, confronting prevailing stereotypes about the region and its cultures. Its discourse assumes the implicated complexities instead of reducing them. This is probably due to a manifold approach based both on thorough research and on the author's own direct, committed involvement with the diverse artistic practices in the islands, and with socially engaged art in particular."— Gerardo Mosquer, Founder of the Havana Biennale, Independent art critic, historian and curator