Contributors
- Contributors
Rocío Aranda-Alvarado was born in Santiago de Chile. She is the senior curator at El Museo del Barrio, New York, where she recently organized Presente! The Young Lords in New York (2015) as well as the last two editions of El Museo’s Bienal. She is also on the adjunct faculty of the Art Department at the City College of New York. Her writing has appeared in various publications and exhibition catalogues.
Deborah Anzinger is a Jamaica-based artist whose work is an exercise in testing the limits of understanding existence as hybrid and indeterminate. Through transgressions—between synthetic and living, sculpture and painting, artist’s hand and viewer’s reflection—her work brings the viewer into the process of observing at close range, teasing apart mechanisms of value and negotiating new ones. She has exhibited recently in Field Notes: Extracts, Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (2015); Double Dutch: Heino Schmid and Deborah Anzinger, National Art Gallery of The Bahamas (2016); and Jamaican Pulse: Art and Politics from Jamaica and the Diaspora, Royal West of England Academy (2016). In 2016, she completed a residency at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
Laura Anderson Barbata works in Brooklyn and Mexico. Since 1992 she has worked primarily in the social realm. She has initiated projects in Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Mexico, Norway, and the United States. Her work is included in various collections, including at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and Museo de Arte Moderno, México.
Celia Britton is an emeritus professor of French and francophone literature at University College London. She has researched widely on French Caribbean literature and thought, and in particular on Édouard Glissant. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques. Her recent publications include The Sense of Community in French Caribbean Fiction (2008) and Language and Literary Form in French Caribbean Writing (2014).
Marta Fernández Campa is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Reading, where she focuses on Caribbean contemporary literature, visual art, and popular culture that engages critically with archives and provides counter-histories to official historical narratives. She has published in Anthurium, ARC magazine, and Caribbean Beat, among others, and has been the recipient of fellowships from the Fulbright Commission and the Center for the Humanities at the University of Miami.
Gabrielle Civil is a black feminist performance artist, originally from Detroit. Over the past fifteen years, she has premiered more than forty original solo and collaborative performance works internationally (Canada, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Mexico, the Gambia) and in the United States (in Salt Lake City, Minneapolis, Yellow Springs, Chicago, New York). Her performance memoir Swallow the Fish will be published in the #RECURRENT series in 2017. [End Page 260]
Annalee Davis is a visual artist and creative activist who works around issues of postplantation economies by engaging with the landscape of Barbados. She is the founding director of Fresh Milk, cofounder of the independent Tilting Axis conference, and codirector of Caribbean Linked, an annual regional residency program. She is a part-time tutor in the BFA program at Barbados Community College, is on the board of ARC magazine, and is the Caribbean arts manager for the British Council.
Kendra Frorup is a sculptor born and brought up in Nassau, Bahamas. She earned her BFA in sculpture at the University of Tampa and her MFA in sculpture at Syracuse University, and is currently an assistant professor in sculpture at the University of Tampa. Her work has recently been exhibited at the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, in Nassau; the Little Haiti Cultural Complex, in Miami; and the Musée International des Arts Modestes, in Sète, France.
Joscelyn Gardner is a visual artist who works between Barbados and London, Ontario, where she teaches at Fanshawe College. Prior to 2000, she ran the Art Foundry galleries in Barbados and served on various national cultural arts boards. She exhibits internationally, and her work is held in public collections in the United States, Europe, Latin America, and...
