This was the multimedia component of my Red Band Maxi installation about the public transportation system in Trinidad and Tobago. The installation was held at Alice Yard in Port of Spain, Trinidad, on Monday, May 3rd.

On the evening of Monday, May 3rd, I held my first solo photography installation, entitled “Red Band Maxi”. The installation was held at Alice Yard in Port of Spain, Trinidad. It was all about privately owned Maxi Taxis, which are the dominant form of public transportation in Trinidad and Tobago. The installation included a projected [...]

On March 25th, 2010, dancer Celia Weiss Bambara performed a site-specific work in progress at the Alice Yard art space in Port of Spain. Her dynamic piece, beginning which reflected her extensive background in African diasporic contemporary dance, was about the “cyclical and intergenerational nature of violence” (Artist’s words).

This past Friday, I attended my second event at Alice Yard: the opening for Jemima Charles’ Cones installation. Ms. Charles is a young Trinidadian artist whose interest in paper led her to study art in Japan. The construction of Ms. Charles’ cones are drawn from the paper lantern technique, which is also used sculpturally at [...]

Part of my semester in Trinidad includes an internship with Alice Yard, an independent art space in Port of Spain. These photographs are from the first event at Alice Yard that I attended–the media launch party for Jam-It, the new 3 canal show “for life love and liberté”. 3 canal is a prominent rapso group [...]