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 […]
Lesley-Ann Brown is a Brooklyn-born writer, educator and activist who currently lives in Copenhagen, Denmark. She has written for Vibe and The Source, and is the founder of Bandit Queen Press and the critically-acclaimed blackgirlonmars blog. Decolonial Daughter is the memoir of a bold, independent black woman seeking freedom across different worlds marked by the […]
Blitz “The Ambassador” Bazawule is a Filmmaker and Musician born in Ghana and based in New York. Blitz’s short films Native Sun (2012) and Diasporadical Trilogìa (2016) premiered at New Voices in Black Cinema and Blackstar Film Festival respectively. Blitz is also the founder of the Africa Film Society, an organization focused on the preservation […]
A conversation with Emilie Upczak on her debut feature Moving Parts CE: Can you tell us about the inspiration and/ or motivation behind this film? EU: Moving Parts was conceived in January 2013, shortly after the completion and festival run of my first narrative short film Knockabout, a neo-noir shot in Port of Spain using […]
Tyronn “Blasé Vanguard” Wilson may seem like the regular cool guy, youth on his side, the world to conquer: with all the “swag” and cheekiness of 25. Yet, there is also a certain maturity in Blasé’s pensive gaze and composure: he really takes a few seconds to measure his answers to my questions, conscious of the fact that through his words, he can maintain a certain mystery about himself. We spend the afternoon exchanging on what it means “to be Caribbean”, how music and other stimuli influence creation and finally the need to connect – My lesson: Don’t be fo
As I enter the rust coloured gate, which Rodell locks twice while greeting me with a serene and almost timid smile, I’m pleasantly surprised by the contrast in scenery between the main street I just walked up, lined so tightly with offices and cars that everything seemed almost stuck together in one rainy, grey filter, […]