A Moment to Celebrate? Art of the Caribbean at the Venice Biennale

Asquith, Wendy ORCID: 0000-0001-7900-0772 and Wainwright, Leon (2020) A Moment to Celebrate? Art of the Caribbean at the Venice Biennale. JOURNAL OF CURATORIAL STUDIES, 9 (1). pp. 40-68.

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Abstract

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>In recent years, the sporadic presence of various Caribbean national pavilions at the Venice Biennale – Jamaica (2001), Haiti (2011), Bahamas (2013), Grenada (2015, 2017, 2019), Antigua and Barbuda (2017, 2019), Dominican Republic (2019) – has on each occasion been almost unanimously applauded as marking some sort of moment of ‘arrival’ or ‘becoming’ for artists of the Caribbean, and for the local institutional structures and professionals that surround them. This article critically explores what the gains are of such a presence beyond the fleeting ‘Venice effect’ – mega-hyped exposure to international audiences, curators, gallerists and other market actors. The alleged benefits-for-all of contemporary cultural exchange, in an expanding globalizing field such as Venice, are by no means shared equally, and such discourses gloss over layers of uneven privilege embedded within the institution.</jats:p>

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Antigua and Barbuda pavilion, Bahamas pavilion, Grenada pavilion, Haiti pavilion, Jamaica pavilion, Venice Biennale, postcolonial Caribbean, Global South
Divisions:	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Histories, Languages and Cultures
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	25 Mar 2022 11:30
Last Modified:	26 Jun 2023 02:45
DOI:	10.1386/jcs_00010_1
Related URLs:	Author Publisher
URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3150994