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EN MAS’ Curators’ Talk

Curator's Claire Tancons and Krista Thompson at EN MAS' at CAC New Orleans

Apr 29, 2016
6–8 pm

Nassau, Bahamas
National Art Gallery of the Bahamas

Villa Doyle
West and West Hill Streets
Nassau, N.P., The Bahamas
 

 

Curator's Claire Tancons and Krista Thompson at EN MAS' at CAC New Orleans

This event is FREE and open to the public

On Friday, April 29, the curators of EN MAS': Carnival, Junkanoo and Performance Art of the Caribbean, Claire Tancons and Krista Thompson, will lead a discussion on the exhibition. The two will discuss the linking of performance art and street festivals with contemporary art. They will share details about the process that connected artists across many borders. Guests will be encouraged to think critically about the origins of particular elements of street festivals like carnival and Junkanoo that we often overlook, including the mask, the drum and the parade. The talk begins at 6PM and all members of the public are invited and encouraged to attend.

For more information, visit the National Art Gallery of the Bahamas, here.

Presenters
Claire Tancons

Trained as a curator and art historian, Claire Tancons practices curating as an expanded creative field and experiments with the political aesthetics of walking, marching, second lining, masquerading and parading in participatory processional performances.

Krista Thompson

Krista Thompson is the Weinberg College Board of Visitors Professor and Professor of Art History at Northwestern University.