Yale Center for British Art

Title:
En mas' : carnival and performance art of the Caribbean / editors, Claire Tancons, Krista Thompson.
Alternate Title(s):
Carnival and performance art of the Caribbean
Published / Created:
New York, NY : Independent Curators International (ICI) ; New Orleans, LA : Contemporary Arts Center (CAC), [2015]

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

©2015
Physical Description:
200 pages (some folded) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
"Published in conjunction with the exhibition En Mas' : Carnival and Performance Art of the Caribbean ... organized and presented by the Contemporary Arts Center (CAC), New Orleans; and co-organized as a traveling exhibition by Independent Curators International (ICI), New York"--Page 5.
Contents:
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.
Subject Terms:
Performance art -- Caribbean Area -- Exhibitions. | Carnival -- Caribbean Area -- Exhibitions. | Carnival in art. | Carnival in art. | Carnival. | Performance art. | Caribbean Area.
Form/Genre:
exhibition catalogs. | Exhibition catalogs. | Exhibition catalogs.
Contributors:
Tancons, Claire, editor. | Thompson, Krista A., 1972– editor. | Contemporary Arts Center (New Orleans, La.), host organization.