in the shade…
blooms a residency program designed for creative spirits for two weeks of messy but secretly organized exchange in Tartane, Martinique. Residents embark upon each other’s creative journey and experience the freedom to play in this collaborative program –
flows a procession of forms, visual and performative, griots, and tricksters who share the desire to rehearse and mix up (pro)visions, voices, parables, and loose references. The theme of the residency, in the shade, echoes black queer and feminist practices of opacity, indirection, in-discretion, and preservation. The aesthetic and ethical demand is to revisit our habits of adumbration, collective care, and pleasure under conditions of colonial retaliations and authoritarianism –
time and space are sculpted in accordance with the intentions set by the collective, enabling the artists to delve deeper into their practice without the pressure of presenting a final work.
Creative Director & Program Manager
Ronald Rose-Antoinette is a Martinican scholar and independent curator interested in advancing creative experiments in decolonial, cross-cultural practice. In recent years, he has helped organize numerous talks, workshops, film programs, and exhibitions centering the practices of visual, sound and performance artists in Canada, Germany, France, Martinique, and online. He is the co-author of Nocturnal Fabulations, a book that examines the works of the Thai filmmaker, Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Rose-Antoinette is the 2024 laureate of the TENDER: A Caribbean Arts Regranting Initiative by the Fresh Milk Platform in the Caribbean Curator category.
Collaborators
Claire Tancons
Denise Ferreira da Silva
Angélique Willkie
Kim-Sanh Châu
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