Azi JONES is a Jamaican Curator, Researcher and Art Advisor with a love for art and design and a keen interest in the way in which Art, like Design, are shaped by our region’s material intelligences, resourcefulness and cultural exchange.
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Caribbean Design is not peripheral, it is a language.
Azi JONES is a Jamaican Curator, Researcher and Art Advisor with a love for art [...]
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Conversation with Chris Ross Dick. Interview by Adeline Gregoire. Christopher Ross-Dick is a Visual Artist from Trinidad and Tobago. A graduate of the University of the West Indies St. Augustine (Visual Arts Programme, 2017) he has been consistently painting for the past 5 years, with participation in 2 recent group shows: A shot to the […]
Hello September! One of the highpoints of our year at CULTUREGO, because it’s a creative season and especially – film festival season! We’re excited to discover another year of the trinidad+tobago film festival as it “punches above its weight” with a second year entirely online. Throughout the years, we’ve loved (and we do truly do […]
Bantu Mama tells the story of Emma, an Afropean woman who escapes arrest and sees her destiny change in a dangerous district of Santo Domingo. According to filmmaker Ivan Herrera, for him and Producer Clarisse Albrecht, the film was made “to begin the personal recognition process of honouring our African roots and to reconnect stories from the Caribbean and Europe to Africa.”
What happens when a society gets trapped in a cycle of excess cash and consumerism? Could there be a link between increasing murder rates in countries which are the world’s top oil producers/extractive economies ? And at what point could “progress” as we know it, lead us to our own demise? Earlier this year, we […]
“I come from a very musical family and started making beats seriously around age 12. My father is one of Trinidad’s most experienced Ambassadors, but before he chose a career in the foreign service, he was a professional musician as a young man and a very accomplished one at that! My mother is from India […]
Since the discovery of the novel coronavirus a little over a year ago, the world has been turned inside out, thrown into a state of epic chaos, a pandemic. The shifts undergone by humankind over this past year are dramatic, palpable and visible to say the least.
A conversation with Zane Rodulfo. The best thing about being a creative, an artist or simply feeling the need to make / do things is that you’re always finding ways to keep yourself busy. This often looks like: imagination, innovation, and endless hours daydreaming, thinking about how to make another exciting project happen. In these […]
A conversation with Coreysan SKIN. Not just another colour, talking point or organic sketch pad… What do you get when you zoom, touch, scratch or cut the surface ? It hurts, it may bleed, but most times any attention is comforting (and it feels good). SKIN. A portal to our own complexity, the maze of […]
“In these works, non-human, subhuman and superhuman figures abound, elements of fiction that the artist and her audience superimpose over real life. (…) The discomfort, tension and posturing of these figures are forceful rather than subtextual.” Alice Yard On January 16th, for one night only, Alice Yard in collaboration with Cass’Mosha A. Centeno presented Big […]