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THERE ARE SEVERAL WAYS OF FINDING YOURSELF: Reporting from Tilting Axis 5

June 25, 2019 Tilting Axis Comments Off on THERE ARE SEVERAL WAYS OF FINDING YOURSELF: Reporting from Tilting Axis 5

By Letitia Pratt, The D’Aguilar Art Foundation. On a late Monday at the end of May, I sluggishly – by fault of a sleepless travel day –  made my way through the airport arrivals in Pointe-a-Pitre, Guadeloupe, unaware of the new ways in which experiencing Tilting Axis 5 (TA5) would change my perspective on many things – on art, the institution, and on my own practice; and how, despite all the harrowing setbacks that I have endured, that it is important to do work in and about the Caribbean.   

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Introducing Tilting Axis 2018 Curatorial Fellow, Natalie Willis

June 1, 2018 Natalie Willis, Tilting Axis Comments Off on Introducing Tilting Axis 2018 Curatorial Fellow, Natalie Willis

For the second year, Tilting Axis has facilitated, administered and designed an open call for our Curatorial Fellowship. In a strong partnership with the University of Texas at Austin Art Galleries at Black Studies we issued an open call to find and seek out a curator living and working in the Caribbean who would rise to the occasion to use the resources, collections and moment at hand to advance their practice in a nuanced and sensitive way. 

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Tilting Axis 3: Curating the Caribbean

May 18, 2017 Tilting Axis Comments Off on Tilting Axis 3: Curating the Caribbean

Tilting Axis is a roving meeting, conceptualized by ARC Magazine and the Fresh Milk Art Platform Inc., that moves in and out of the Caribbean region on an annual basis. It brings together arts professionals who are interested in, and committed to, expanding contemporary visual art practice across all linguistic areas of the region. Participants include those based in the Caribbean and its diasporas, professionals working in the coastal rim of the Caribbean, as well as global professionals whose research and practice is influenced by the region. The goal of Tilting Axis is to facilitate opportunities for those who are living and working in the Caribbean, to increase interest and understanding of this region’s contemporary visual practice while contributing to a healthy cultural eco-system and purposeful growth for the Caribbean creative sector.

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Members of the Caribbean visual art community demonstrate unity, progression at Tilting Axis conference.

March 21, 2015 Tilting Axis Comments Off on Members of the Caribbean visual art community demonstrate unity, progression at Tilting Axis conference.

Dedicated to forging infrastructure between independent art organizations and museums operating across the Caribbean, U.S., E.U., U.K., African continent and China, the international visual arts conference, “Tilting Axis: Within and beyond the Caribbean – shifting models of sustainability and connectivity”, was held recently in Barbados.

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