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Welcome to the Past, Present, and Future: A Caribbean Futurist Read of Antonius Roberts’ Mabrika

Antonius Roberts’ Mabrika invites visitors into a suspended sea of silk cotton canoes, blending Lucayan ingenuity with Afro-Indigenous aesthetics to explore histories erased by colonization. This immersive installation envisions a pluralistic Caribbean futurism, where ecological and cultural pasts intersect with pressing questions about climate change, survival, and decolonization, offering a timeless meditation on progress and sovereignty.

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A Repository of Memories

Joining host, Amanda Coulson, on The Blank Canvas tonight are Tessa Whitehead, curator of the upcoming show at The D’Aguilar Art Foundation, entitled “Diversions” and participating artists Melissa Alcena and Sofia Whitehead.

 

 

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Everybody and Dey Grammy

Whether we were watching and waiting for the storm to hit directly, or watching and waiting for it to pass from the safety of our own sofas, Christina Wong’s “Everybody and Dey Grammy #hurricanedorian” (2019) struck a cord (and plucked on heartstrings) for all of us. From the hashtag to the sentiment of everybody collectively waiting with bated breath, we felt Hurricane Dorian as a nation — not in a nationalist sense, but rather as people living in, from and tied to this landscape, “born Bahamian” or otherwise.

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