Caribbean Contemporary Poets and Graphic Artists Moored at the Venice

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Campo DC	Valore
dc.contributor.author	Matz Margaret Spencer
dc.title	Caribbean Contemporary Poets and Graphic Artists Moored at the Venice Biennale of Architecture 2018
dc.type	Journal Article
dc.language.iso	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://doi.org/10.14277/Tol/2499-5975/2018/20/016
dc.description.abstract	The Teatrino del Mondo of Aldo Rossi, a performance space set on a barge that could be reached by boat (1979-80), became an iconic metaphor for the first Venetian Biennale of Architecture. At the Venetian Biennale of Architecture 2018, this metaphorical representation was engaged by Caribbean contemporary poets Lasana M. Sekou and Charles Matz II and visual artists Cozbi Sanchez Cabrera and Jean-Ulrick Désert. In exploring ties that link the vessels of Caribbean contemporary literature and art to Venice, witness is the audacity of their opera, created while confronting intensifying natural disasters such as earthquakes and hurricanes, and recalling horrifying unnatural conditions of Slavery and war. The artists participated in collateral events in which poetry or visual art intersected marvellously with Venetian idioms.
dc.relation.ispartof	Il Tolomeo
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 1 \| Dicember 2018
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.date.issued	2018-12-21
dc.dateAccepted	2018-08-23
dc.dateSubmitted	2018-10-03
dc.identifier.issn	1594-1930
dc.identifier.eissn	2499-5975
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject	Caribbean
dc.subject	Venice Architecture
dc.subject	Poetry
dc.subject	Art
dc.subject	Biennale 2018

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Caribbean Contemporary Poets and Graphic Artists Moored at the Venice Biennale of Architecture 2018

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Margaret Spencer Matz New York Institute of Technology and the Pratt Institute Schools of Architecture

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abstract

The Teatrino del Mondo of Aldo Rossi, a performance space set on a barge that could be reached by boat (1979-80), became an iconic metaphor for the first Venetian Biennale of Architecture. At the Venetian Biennale of Architecture 2018, this metaphorical representation was engaged by Caribbean contemporary poets Lasana M. Sekou and Charles Matz II and visual artists Cozbi Sanchez Cabrera and Jean-Ulrick Désert. In exploring ties that link the vessels of Caribbean contemporary literature and art to Venice, witness is the audacity of their opera, created while confronting intensifying natural disasters such as earthquakes and hurricanes, and recalling horrifying unnatural conditions of Slavery and war. The artists participated in collateral events in which poetry or visual art intersected marvellously with Venetian idioms.

Keywords: Caribbean. Venice Architecture. Poetry. Art. Biennale 2018.

Language: en

Submitted: Aug. 23, 2018
Accepted: Oct. 3, 2018
Published: Dec. 21, 2018

permalink: http://doi.org/10.30687/Tol/2499-5975/2018/20/016

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