tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-233676142024-03-13T04:11:30.285-04:00Visual MattersUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23367614.post-42154267374976207402019-11-04T17:10:00.000-04:002019-11-04T17:10:04.911-04:00"Where Is Here" Museum of the African Diaspora.<iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/iRjHqt_u5ZM/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/iRjHqt_u5ZM?feature=player_embedded" width="320"></iframe>
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An interview about "Little Gestures" 2017<br />
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Where Is Here, curated by Jacqueline Francis and Kathy Zarur, evokes the real and conceptual space through which we travel. The exhibition presents the works of contemporary artists who are developing personal and engaged visual and musical systems to claim, make, and describe space. The imagery is both straightforward and poetic.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23367614.post-67381400582350066392019-11-04T17:03:00.000-04:002019-11-04T17:09:46.580-04:00New Level Head(s)Rising Waters Confab<br />
Rauschenberg Residency: April-May 2016
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><i>In my past work I thought often about the difference between being displaced and being dispersed.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><i>I come from the rest of the Hemisphere or planet. We have always been on the move between owned spaces or territories. What has been our response?</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><i>I have always drawn these submerged heads. They refer to a condition - to a state of being - of suspension, on the move, between territories, be it cultures, nations and other social constructs.</i></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23367614.post-73671974225841018292019-04-14T08:41:00.000-04:002019-04-14T08:48:16.316-04:00Cannonball Residency, Miami, 2015<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23367614.post-52412313502780255212015-08-29T07:04:00.000-04:002015-08-29T07:09:01.059-04:00Enredos / TEOR/ética <span style="color: #38761d;">July 15 - September 26 / 2015
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See review from <i><a href="http://www.experimenta.es/blog/christopher-cozier-enredos-5195" target="_blank">Experimenta</a></i> also translated on <i><a href="http://repeatingislands.com/2015/08/28/christopher-cozier-enredos-entanglements-a-review-by-luis-fernando-quiros/" target="_blank">Repeating Islands</a></i><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23367614.post-82569960307969889532015-08-28T18:39:00.001-04:002015-08-28T18:41:59.297-04:00Entanglements / June 27- October 18 / 2015<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibre, Helvetica, Arial, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17.0000591278076px;">Curated by Yesomi Umolu, </span><br />
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Derived from a recent series of drawings called The Arrest, and experimental collaborations, while in residence at North Western University, this video, tentatively titled Gas Men or Globe, (Globe being a popular cinema in Port of Spain), Christopher Cozier’s latest video installation investigates the ongoing environmental and sociopolitical challenges presented by oil economies. <span style="color: #990000;">Read more <a href="http://moniquemeloche.com/exhibitions/gas-men/">here</a></span><br />
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<a href="http://moniquemeloche.com/exhibitions/gas-men/" target="_blank">Monique Meloche Gallery</a>, Chicago; Northwestern University’s <a href="http://www.humanities.northwestern.edu/programs/artist-in-residence/index.html" target="_blank">Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities</a>, co-sponsored by the Department of Art History, the Department of Communication Studies, the Center for Global Culture and Communication, and the Latin American & Caribbean Studies Program at Northwestern University, Evanston; Miller Beach Arts and Creative District. Special thanks to Evan Boris, Tom Burke, Ann E. Rose.</i></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23367614.post-21218040271533402362014-08-03T07:59:00.000-04:002014-08-03T08:00:53.942-04:00Works from 4 projects, 2010 - 2013 February 10-24 / 2014 / Y Art Gallery.
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See review <a href="http://www.guardian.co.tt/arts/2014-02-16/loss-lack-cozier-shows-tt-first-time-13-years">here</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23367614.post-63976643275005468912014-08-03T07:39:00.000-04:002014-08-03T08:36:00.587-04:00Prince Claus Award ceremony at Alice Yard<span style="background-color: #f4f5f7; color: #71767a; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px;">Tuesday the 18th of March 2014</span><br />
<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" mozallowfullscreen="" src="//player.vimeo.com/video/89518396" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="500"></iframe> <a href="http://vimeo.com/89518396">CHRISTOPHER COZIER: ONE NIGHT COLLABORATIONS Version 2</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/trinidadhomestudioltd">Trinidad Home Studio Ltd</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>. <span style="color: #990000;">SEE PRESS <a href="http://arcthemagazine.com/arc/2014/03/of-honours-and-creative-inclusivity-christopher-cozier-receives-prince-claus-award-in-atmosphere-of-collaboration/">here</a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23367614.post-73108520380067501552014-01-15T20:48:00.000-04:002014-01-15T20:52:41.697-04:00the arrest, hands up, hand out...<div id="stcpDiv" style="left: -1988px; position: absolute; top: -1999px;">
Making of The Arrest- hands up, hand out.<br />
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and ketch ass stepping / Laocoon and crapaud dance / watching the coin
drop / Terrazzo and camouflage balls / Looking like a red dot but it’s
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http://arcthemagazine.com/arc/2013/11/the-arrest-hands-up-hand-out-opening-reception-at-the-betsy-south-beach-hotel/#sthash.bkutizbw.dpuf</div>
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bit head snake / Pump to the right and pump to the left / Throw the coin / five
gourde toss / Departing birds / Hiding to bite, chew and swallow / Bag men
eating, gas men laughing / Converse and ketch ass stepping / Laocoon and
crapaud dance / watching the coin drop / Terrazzo and camouflage balls / Looking
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The Arrest- hands up, hand out.<br />
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your hand in the air and jump and jump / Dig it up and down / watch the
plates shake / silicone bit head snake / Pump to the right and pump to
the left / Throw the coin / five gourde toss / Departing birds / Hiding
to bite, chew and swallow / Bag men eating, gas men laughing / Converse
and ketch ass stepping / Laocoon and crapaud dance / watching the coin
drop / Terrazzo and camouflage balls / Looking like a red dot but it’s
not. - See more at:
http://arcthemagazine.com/arc/2013/11/the-arrest-hands-up-hand-out-opening-reception-at-the-betsy-south-beach-hotel/#sthash.Wj01Wni7.dpuf</div>
Art Basel at <a href="http://www.thebetsyhotel.com/concierge/exhibit-christopher-cozier-,event-calendar_viewItem_3261-en.html" target="_blank">The Betsy</a>, 2013, in partnership with <a href="http://davidkrut.com/dknyindex.html" target="_blank">David Krut Projects</a>, presents <span style="line-height: 1.25;">Christopher Cozier: "The Arrest: hands up, hand out" a </span><span style="line-height: 1.25;">commissioned work in the Light Boxes of the B Bar.</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23367614.post-38875180777654568612014-01-15T18:18:00.000-04:002014-01-15T18:18:22.958-04:00Culture in Action with Naiza Khan & Christopher Cozier - Prince Claus Awards Week<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" mozallowfullscreen="" src="//player.vimeo.com/video/81807570" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="500"></iframe> <a href="http://vimeo.com/81807570">Culture in Action with Naiza Khan, Christopher Cozier - Prince Claus Awards Week</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/debalie">De Balie</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
<i>READ MORE <a href="http://www.princeclausfund.org/nl/activities/culture-in-action-with-naiza-khan-and-christopher-cozier.html" target="_blank">HERE</a></i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23367614.post-1209924187424679732013-06-24T14:53:00.000-04:002013-06-24T15:01:47.693-04:00Being an Island (Inseldasein)<br />
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June 8th / July 27th / 2013 / daadgalerie / Berlin<br />
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Artist talk with Annika Eriksson, Christopher Cozier & Sarnath Banerjee.</div>
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Annika Eriksson, Allan Kaprow, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz,
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On view: January 25 – March 16, 2013<br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show" style="font-size: small;">Experience SSV4KY in front of the University of Kentucky Fine Arts Building, Wednesday, April 11, 2012 from 7:00-9:00pm and in front of the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, KY on Friday, April 13, 2012 from 7:00-9:00pm. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/56271618@N00/2427452091/in/photostream" target="_blank">Sound System</a> is a collaborative experiment - a ten year investigation of accumulated sound.</span><span class="text_exposed_show"> </span><br />
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<a href="http://christophercozier.blogspot.com/2008/11/ongoing-thoughts.html" target="_blank">"Little Gestures"</a> installation [<a href="http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150438457334136.423743.726934135&type=3&l=1d8e9eb61d" target="_blank">recent Substation version</a>] as well as Alice Yard design collaboration with <a href="http://marlondarbeau.blogspot.com/2010/11/peera.html" target="_blank">Marlon Darbeau</a> from the <a href="http://madmuseum.org/press/releases/global-africa-project-explores-impact-african-visual-culture-contemporary-art-craft" target="_blank">Global Africa Project</a> adapted for - <a href="http://www.art-agenda.com/shows/into-the-mix-at-the-kentucky-museum-of-art-and-craft/" target="_blank">Into the Mix</a> - at <a href="http://www.kentuckyarts.org/current-exhibitions/" target="_blank">KMAC</a>. More soon.<br />
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Since I was given this archaic object, I have been wondering about how education sometimes gives us the language to articulate and even the countenance to accept the random conditions created by those who simply have the money to do what they want? I think of the outrage being expressed by young people occupying various financial districts around the world. It is a device to brush crumbs from a table. I thought it would be interesting to use the lino cut and Century Schoolbook type with creole - like grammar to make the unfamiliar object and the language fit.<br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="fbPhotoCaptionText">The Substation Residency Dislocating the Studio is a series of residencies featuring local and international cultural practitioners, structured as a challenge to the space of the studio / gallery.<a href="http://www.dislocatingthestudio.tumblr.com/" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank"></a> Wits School of Arts, Wits 2013 Strategy, Wits Vision 2022, CISA and the Africa Centre - see further images <a href="http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150438457334136.423743.726934135&type=1&l=1d8e9eb61d" target="_blank">here</a></span></span><br />
<div style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="fbPhotoCaptionText"><b><span style="font-size: xx-small;">FURTHER INFO. AVAILABLE ON THE EDITION FROM DAVID KRUT PROJECTS, NY AND JOHANNESBURG, <a href="http://davidkrutprojects.com/15793/christopher-cozier-after-all-that-talk-2011" target="_blank">HERE</a></span></b></span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23367614.post-53906666834495066302010-11-14T09:58:00.012-04:002010-11-15T09:57:22.223-04:00"development box" and other moments<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/56271618@N00/5148089343/" title="MADE IN CHINA 3 by christophercozier, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4152/5148089343_c82121bdd6.jpg" width="400" height="568" alt="MADE IN CHINA 3" /></a><br />
"MADE IN CHINA" stamps have been so much a part of our lives growing up in Caribbean. In the past it was pencils and plastic pencil-sharpeners, yellow twelve-inch-rulers etc. Modest items with all the associations of developing countries and low level consumption. Today, in the same locations, for people with bigger budgets, it is now monolithic structures and narratives of progress.<br />
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I bought this little stamp in a mall in Port of Spain. I began to see these little stamps more and more over the years. Apparently they are quite commonly used for labeling, on arrival, in small shops? Why are they being labeled here in Trinidad? What would the value of labeling my work this way in narratives of development and progress? So far I have begun to label drawings of pedestals for politicians to stand upon. Within the narrative of "Development" this object can allow them to feel taller and more important or they could use it to hang themselves. <br />
A friend, Cecile, offered the following comment on my blog:<br />
"I've heard of "suitcase traders" using these stamps when importing goods that aren't labelled with a country of manufacture. Such a label is necessary to bring these goods here "legally". So, traders take these stamps with them to wherever they go to get their goods and if there happen to be any items which are untagged, they place a little "Made in China" stamp on to avoid any trouble with Customs."<br />
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This was my first drawing of the bench (peera ) which I called "little gestures" in 2006. Through the dialogues instigated by architect Sean Leonard at Alice Yard, this simple everyday object, enlisted into my symbolic vocabulary, became an object for design investigation by designer <a href="http://marlondarbeau.blogspot.com/2010/11/peera_07.html">Marlon Darbeau</a>. <br />
See further thoughts <a href="http://christophercozier.blogspot.com/2008/11/ongoing-thoughts.html">here</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23367614.post-34767528282605136962010-11-10T12:58:00.004-04:002010-11-10T14:50:13.647-04:00Tropical Night in Martinique<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/56271618@N00/5148196575/" title="Martinique Poster by christophercozier, on Flickr"><img alt="Martinique Poster" height="599" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4048/5148196575_5667890395_b.jpg" width="400" /></a><br />
<div style="color: #660000;"><i><b>Click on image to read more. Click <a href="http://tropicalnight.blogspot.com/">here</a> for the "Tropical Night" site.</b></i><br />
<i><b>See <a href="http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1655767030794&comments">Video</a> by Marco Lora Reid. </b></i></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23367614.post-16641358539853840432010-07-18T23:46:00.026-04:002013-01-06T22:23:50.338-04:00NOW SHOWING<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/56271618@N00/4807423324/" title="Now Showing by christophercozier, on Flickr"><img alt="Now Showing" height="539" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4121/4807423324_abcd3cfbfd_b.jpg" width="400" /></a><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Limited edition silk screen ( 100/100 ) done at Axelle Fine Arts, NY. commissioned by the Trinidad +Tobago Film Festival 2010, ( 27 x 20 inches ). The edition was launched on Friday July 16th at the National Museum.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Download discussion by Richard Rawlins in <a href="http://www.artzpub.com/alt/pdf/drsw13.pdf">Draconian Switch #13</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">1. "Stains on paper;" is an idea that has been with me throughout my career. It's the title of an older work from the mid 90s. As with many of my images, the idea that my thoughts, visually, feel like a smearing or a staining of a pristine surface or field of art making ( <i>I am thinking historically/internationally as a mere "native" who does not know better</i></span><span style="font-size: small;">.) This is also implied locally as I do not come from the “Culture-producing-caste/cast” in the narrative of nation. You can look at it from within the confines of ethnic narratives or from class and family name etc. - the local bullshit that I faced when I was younger and now starting out as an artist in the mid-late 70's. (<i>The “who-are-you-to-feel-you-could do – x” stuff.</i></span><span style="font-size: small;"> ) So, there is, in my work, a dialogue about beauty and order deferred in sociological / existential ways. I was thinking about that anxiety which people like Naipaul discuss in their early lives and careers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The stain - that grey grimy feeling - is the feeling of walking the streets of the city or of those kind of primary schools or institutional spaces like courts, government buildings, hospitals - any traditional waiting room around Port of Spain, still. But, it could also be Baltimore in the 80's or in those particular places in cities like Caracas or Johannesburg - those places where you find the darker people. Those places that people who inherit an idea of power think that it’s okay or natural for the rest of us to occupy?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> 2. The "12.30 show" from Walcott and the Vybz Kartel <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORi4xwSwWlM">Clarks</a> song meet or collide within my visual vocabulary therefore bringing together </span><span style="font-size: small;">the formal </span><span style="font-size: small;">and </span><span style="font-size: small;"> the </span><span style="font-size: small;">vernacular. Again, it is about the spaces I navigated growing up here and remain curious about when I travel. Also this is derived from the collaborations I have done with <a href="http://www.davidmichaelrudder.com/">David Rudder</a> and also <a href="http://12theband.com/">Sheldon Holder</a> of the band 12. There exists a visual interpretation of the "Mad Man's Rant," by Rudder, which the artist and myself discussed in great detail over time. This print is a follow on in some way. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Much of the writing in my images are random but sometimes related thoughts that come to me while drawing. So next to the bread on wheels I wrote my own thoughts and also something derived from a line</span><span style="font-size: small;"> from</span><span style="font-size: small;"> a song ( <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2b-jjsvemI">Salt</a> ) by 3 Canal where they ask - where you going with all that dough boy - or was it millions…tens of millions or something like that. That line and tone of voice in their performance matches the line..where you get them new Clarks dey daddy….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">3. The cut - tree ( cut-nature ) is, of course, the one outside the Forensic Center in Federation Park. I have been looking at it for some years now - and especially so - since the rise in daily murders in our city. I find it interesting that the tree was cut down, the trunk burnt out, yet it's sprouting again. To me this says something about history - about persistence and hope. But, it also says something about how the tree in the sun, in a “tropical” sense, can have different meanings based how one encounters it. In this image I am more interested in the topical than the tropical.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Often, I am driving past this location. The people standing around it may have lost a son, a father, a brother or relative, for example. While waiting, they are hearing gunfire from the police shooting range over the wall. It’s the background of our ongoing and often denied violent history. The mysterious cracking sound in the back of Chekhov's play, The Cherry Orchard, comes to mind.. the something that makes people build higher walls or more burglar bars or stay home at night….but now its playing out for a different class and group in another place. It impacts upon the flavor of the promise of mobility and liberation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">4. The bare feet and Clarks shoes could be dancing feet stepping to an urban beat. Bare feet may mean impoverishment in one narrative or folk-ish rural fortitude from old national and socialist forms of representation and the shoes - a kind of grassroots stylish-ness or bling. Bunji mentioned the Citizens' Conservation Core and his commitment to Clarks as a sign of rooted-ness some years ago in his personal narrative - in an early hit, about people wanting him for fetes all over the country.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The feet could also be the feet under those goofy old fashion Carnival costumes or the feet of shot youth sticking out from under a cloth at a crime scene on the side of the road. The feet also could be the feet of marching protesting workers carrying placards as was the case in my earlier "intersection" series from Johannesburg. It could also be the feet of a vagrant in the city sticking out from under cardboard as you walk by. Its patterning recalls the fringe on a dress or the pompoms on a Midnight Robber's hat. A friend who works in emergency services once told me that they are always puzzled by why the left shoe </span><span style="font-size: small;">seems</span><span style="font-size: small;"> always to fall off first when someone runs or becomes injured. So one shoe on and one shoe off is suggestive in that sense.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">7. The the faded figures in the center continue to reference the kinds of movies I grew up seeing in the 60s-70s. Wang Yu in "One Armed Swordsman', Clint Eastwood and Amitabh Bachchan are seen. Then of course there is “the block” derived from our local Percy moment in the last elections. The link between action movies, karate and spiritual blocks are played with. Some how, the imagery from what is called "Blaxploitation” films slipped out of the net even though they factor heavily in my other works. Somewhere in there is also a lady in patterned maxi- dress looking like those from the early 70's. This like many of the other images came from the newspapers. It is an image of our past national spiritual adviser.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">9. The image has both topical and conceptual ideas of the moment or of my general concern. It tries to capture a moment or the moment so there is a time bending in that the world this work describes is any place like this, but also, this place. The recent "Dudus" event and similar ones here and in other parts of the hemisphere make that clear. It’s not a new question this collision of art and life. The word's "Now Showing" are layered into the image. Are we living in a movie unmade?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23367614.post-71813095855501093242010-01-30T04:22:00.001-04:002010-01-30T04:25:35.326-04:00Tropical Night in AFRO MODERN.<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/56271618@N00/4312810651/" title="TATE INSTALLATION by christophercozier, on Flickr"><img alt="TATE INSTALLATION" height="267" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2770/4312810651_0e63385a0f.jpg" width="400" /></a><br />
Installation of larger version of "Tropical Night" in <a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/exhibitions/afromodernism/default.shtm">AFRO MODERN</a> at the TATE, Liverpool. 189 drawings were used instead of the 136 used in the "<a href="http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/infinite_island/highlight.php?a=EL51.41">Infinite Island</a>" show at the Brooklyn Museum in 2007. See details on the <a href="http://tropicalnight.blogspot.com/">Tropical Night </a>site.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23367614.post-22271301935013114882009-11-12T14:49:00.013-04:002009-11-15T23:31:02.571-04:00"Sound System II" at Rockstone and Bootheel<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/56271618@N00/4098837422/" title="SOUND SYSTEM GRAPHIC 1 by christophercozier, on Flickr"><img alt="SOUND SYSTEM GRAPHIC 1" height="398" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2665/4098837422_489a3928e0.jpg" width="400" /></a><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Sound System graphic - "arena"</span></i> </span><br />
<div style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: small;">Rockstone and Bootheel: Contemporary West Indian Art</span><br />
</div><span style="font-size: small;"></span><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Curated by Kristina Newman-Scott and Yona Backer</i> </span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Opened November 14th at <a href="http://www.realartways.org/visualarts.htm">Real Art Ways</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">See info. about exhibition and also download sound sample <a href="http://www.realartways.org/visualarts.htm#rockstone">here </a></span><br />
See fragment of the artist's notes<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/56271618@N00/2427452091/"> here</a><br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/56271618@N00/4098837414/" title="SOUND SYSTEM GRAPHIC 2 by christophercozier, on Flickr"><img alt="SOUND SYSTEM GRAPHIC 2" height="400" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2618/4098837414_b3ca8d8b9d.jpg" width="400" /></a><br />
<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">"it real nice"</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">"...Ideological lyrics man, with erection, between two dancing girls....thinking about the traditional politics of the space..."</span></i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23367614.post-78976969598610424662009-04-03T17:16:00.013-04:002011-02-22T05:23:01.330-04:00e-magazine link for San Jaun<span style="color: #006600;">Trienal Poli/Gráfica de San Juan: América Latina y el Caribe.</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;">Opens on April 18th.</span><br />
<a href="http://www.artzpub.com/content/bonus/fear"><img alt="available at all leading stores" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3333/3409594379_36e44d4543.jpg" style="height: 426px; width: 400px;" /></a> <br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-size: 85%; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Click on the image to go to link to download your own copy.</span></span><br />
To my surprise and thanks to curator Julieta Gonzalez, "Availalble At All Leading stores" may have a continued life (even in this Obama moment?). Curious and excited to see how this takes shape. I remain astonished at the potential of designer Richard Rawlin's e-magazine link for this project, and Nicholas Laughlin's response, which also gives it yet another life.<br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/56271618@N00/3451838361/" title=""Available At All Leading Stores" by christophercozier, on Flickr"><img alt=""Available At All Leading Stores"" height="267" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3573/3451838361_e9acb2c830.jpg" width="400" /></a><br />
<span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: arial;">San Juan installation. Click on the image to see more.</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23367614.post-43608114392719910842008-11-20T17:30:00.011-04:002012-02-20T18:05:37.174-04:00ongoing thoughts<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/56271618@N00/3045964069/" title="Benches in hand by christophercozier, on Flickr"><img alt="Benches in hand" height="298" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3143/3045964069_85b1226838.jpg" width="400" /></a><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">ongoing thoughts</span>...little hand printed and cut out benches,(implying much hope? )<br />
There is also the “pira” or the little bench that refers to small incremental gestures that build up over time. <span style="font-style: italic;">This what I feel that I am going after with my little daily drawings. </span><br />
It’s the kind of bench that people use to do simple humble daily things like weeding a garden or vending at the side of the road or shining a shoe and so on. It’s often portable and is often intriguingly worn or weathered into shape by use over extended periods of time. I feel that these little gestures are the foundation of a global economic reality that is not seen for what it is. Often it is discussed as some kind of inefficient and errant form. A messy problem to be corrected or reformed. This is why I brought it together with the old Colonial map - for the moment.<br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/56271618@N00/2200817046/" title="Line - up in Chicago by christophercozier, on Flickr"><img alt="Line - up in Chicago" height="298" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2289/2200817046_1f6821bee7.jpg" width="400" /></a><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Further thoughts:10/03/09</span> <br />
Is Hope an idea or a concept that is easily materialized or inferred? Maybe not - because it may be an active conjuring or imagining of possibility? I was attracted to the bench design as it recalled a modest however naïve and idealistic time in my life. A time in which I was not too “exposed,” so to speak, and so I had to figure ways or functioning with very little in hand. By the way, then, the “little in hand,” felt like the world and the ability to transform these few things through imaginative reverie, as, for example, in the games of childhood, was quite exhilarating. <br />
It all keeps coming back to me when I see the way these little work-benches are put together or designed. Designed is the better word as it implies a solidity of intent.<br />
I was concerned with ( inspired by?) the make-shift which I knew and had come to understand, even accept in a place like Trinidad . However its familiarity was less than comforting or consoling than it was comfortable or accommodating.<br />
Through my knowledge and or familiarity, a tension lingered in my mind/sense between the formor process being “ all I know” or just “what I know.”<br />
So I keep drawing and investigating this bench form.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23367614.post-83008959068041269962008-07-07T00:06:00.019-04:002008-08-11T08:01:54.753-04:00Port-au-Prince<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/56271618@N00/2644193743/" title="Canape Vért by christophercozier, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3074/2644193743_c18e98bd9c_o.gif" width="400" height="339" alt="Canape Vért" /></a><br />Working at Place public Canape Vért with local artists and various children who just joined in. I worked with Karim Bléus, artist and sign painter, as well as with artist Tessa Mars who translated my text into creole. See hers and mine here - <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/56271618@N00/2649856030/">"creole text"</a><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/56271618@N00/2645013990/" title="Tessa translating by christophercozier, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3054/2645013990_6044090fec_b.jpg" width="400" height="300" alt="Tessa translating" /></a><br />I am not sure if the image done on ply-board with house paint worked out but the process of working outdoors in a public space and the resulting comments were interesting. <a href="http://www.art-habdaphai.com/">Habdaphai</a>, of Martinique, as well as <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/artexplorer/sets/72157606452090740/">Edwige Aplogan</a> of Benin worked with other artists at the same location. This was all part of the <a href="http://www.africamerica.org/index.php?action=galerie&subaction=album&id_album=19363&page=&start=">Forum Transculturel de Port-au-Prince</a>. Click on the images also to see more in Flickr.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2