Queens Park Art Gallery-Bridgetown, Barbados
Monday 25 February 2008
5pm
All welcome
Monday 25 February 2008
Wednesday 6 February 2008
Call Out to Artists
MAS-SAMple will be in the Caribbean fom 1-28 February 2008, with the aim of establishing contact with artists, writers, arts and cultural organisations, collectives, curators, publishers and thinkers based in Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago.
We welcome contact and expressions of interest from emerging and established practitioners.
Throughout this time, we aim to share information about our initiative and build a greater knowledge and understanding of the artistic production, needs and aspirations of artists operating out of the Caribbean. This research will form an integral part of MAS-SAMple’s development and creative vision.
We view this exploration period as a visible and collective process, therefore all participating practitioners and members of the public will be able to access and respond to this research via hardcopy and an online pdf in September 2008.
We welcome contact and expressions of interest from emerging and established practitioners.
Throughout this time, we aim to share information about our initiative and build a greater knowledge and understanding of the artistic production, needs and aspirations of artists operating out of the Caribbean. This research will form an integral part of MAS-SAMple’s development and creative vision.
We view this exploration period as a visible and collective process, therefore all participating practitioners and members of the public will be able to access and respond to this research via hardcopy and an online pdf in September 2008.
The Beginnning of MAS-SAMple
North East based artists, Andrea Macdonald and Sheree Mack have had a long-standing creative relationship over the last four years, working collaboratively on several arts and heritage based projects in the cultural sector. They mutually support each other in the creative and practical development of their own art practice, linked through similar conceptual interests to Caribbean ancestry and re-imagined Diaspora identities.
In February 2007, Macdonald and Mack embarked on a creative research trip to their ancestral homes of Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago to collate first-hand research and new documentation for their personal practice. This journey was a self-initiated ‘go and see’ experience and served as a valuable opportunity for both artists to meet visual artists, writers, curators and critics in the Southern Caribbean. This trip resulted in new contacts, a series of professionally recorded audio interviews, new photographic and literary work, research and visual documentation.
Inspired by the mas-camps of carnival, the representation of the post-colonial condition in the arts, and the two-fold desire for experimentation, investigation and experiences across continents, MAS-SAMple was formally created on their return. Through extensive discussions about the aims and purpose and research regarding existing opportunities, regional and national networks, Macdonald and Mack created MAS-SAMple to establish a combined arts initiative for Caribbean Diaspora artists, issue-based arts and global audiences alike.
In February 2007, Macdonald and Mack embarked on a creative research trip to their ancestral homes of Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago to collate first-hand research and new documentation for their personal practice. This journey was a self-initiated ‘go and see’ experience and served as a valuable opportunity for both artists to meet visual artists, writers, curators and critics in the Southern Caribbean. This trip resulted in new contacts, a series of professionally recorded audio interviews, new photographic and literary work, research and visual documentation.
Inspired by the mas-camps of carnival, the representation of the post-colonial condition in the arts, and the two-fold desire for experimentation, investigation and experiences across continents, MAS-SAMple was formally created on their return. Through extensive discussions about the aims and purpose and research regarding existing opportunities, regional and national networks, Macdonald and Mack created MAS-SAMple to establish a combined arts initiative for Caribbean Diaspora artists, issue-based arts and global audiences alike.
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