CCA collaborates with the London based Triangle Arts Trust, which was founded in the early 1980's by Robert Loder CBE and Sir Anthony Caro. The Trust has initiated international artists' workshops in over eighteen countries world-wide, with almost two thousand artists having participated to date, in such countries as the Republic of South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Botswana, Kenya, India, Namibia, Jamaica, Cuba, Pakistan, Australia, Venezuela and the United States of America. These workshops are a co-operative venture between artists. Each workshop brings together a group of twenty to twenty-five artists in a working situation from a variety of cultures and backgrounds. Artists have found the workshop experience to be broadening, innovative and creative. Triangle works alongside regional partners who share common objectives. These partners cover the globe from Australia to South Asia, from East Africa to Southern Africa and from the Caribbean to New York.
After the success of the first ‘big River’ workshop, CCA was asked to initiate and co-ordinate workshops in the Caribbean and Latin American regions with the Triangle Trust. Our joint primary objective is to initiate and facilitate the exchange of ideas and practice between an extensive network of artists around the world. Upcoming workshops include ‘big River3’ in Trinidad in March - April 2004. ÊWe are currently securing a site for the workshop.
Recent
International Artists Workshops
Madinina
International Artists Workshop
Martinique
6th July - 21st July 2002
Madinina International Artists Workshop took place in Martinique, in a fishing village called Grand Rivière, from 29th June to 14th July 2002. It was organised by the Working Group SET, in collaboration with CCA and the Triangle Arts Trust. Twenty three (23) artists participated. The Workshop produced a number of site specific works, which were installed all over the village.
Participating artists:
Marcela Astorga (Argentina)
Christian Bertin (Martinique)
Herve Beuze (Martinique)
Glauba Cestari (Brazil)
Robert Charlotte (Martinique)
Lisa Cheung (China)
Earl Darius Etienne (Dominican)
Patrick Ganthier (Haiti)
Marlon Griffith (Trinidad)
Alexander Guerra Hurtado (Cuba)
Valerie John (Martinique)
Moshekwa Langa (South Africa)
Sandrine Mahieu (France)
Thierry Major (Martinique)
Marc Marie-Joseph (Martinique)
Guirouard-aizee Norville (Martinique)
Jose Cruz Pabon (Puerto Rico)
Heronimo Renwick (Aruba)
Myrtha Richards (Saint Martin)
Ejti Stih (Bolivia)
Sonia Tourville (Martinique)
Florent Trochel (France)
Sussy Vargas Alvarado (Costa Rica)
Madinina Workshop Group
big
River2 International
Artists Workshop
Trinidad
25th March - 9th April 2001
24 artists, 12 international and 12 local, participated in ‘big River2’. It was hosted on the north east coast of Trinidad in Grande Riviere. The working group, G4+, invited artists to consider and explore the theme: 'The Dynamics of the Hinge'. This theme focused on the dynamics of their particular locations within fragmented regions loosely connected by pluralistic hinges. At the workshop, they had the opportunity to work uninterrupted and were encouraged to be experimental and explore new ideas within their practice. At the end of the intensive two weeks, ‘big River2’ culminated in an Open Day on site on the 8th April and an exhibition held in the Main Gallery at CCA7, which opened on 11th April 2001.
The theme "The Dynamics of the Hinge", arose from the essay "THE NEW ATLANTIS - The ultimate Caribbean archipelago" Hopscotch, Vol.#1.1, 1999, by Antonio Benitez-Rojo.
G4+ was committed to exploring and developing this theme with visiting artists and learning about positions on/of their geopolitics. ‘big River2’ has highlighted the effectiveness of such exchanges and we intend on supporting/collaborating with other working groups of artists who are equally committed to such an initiative within the Caribbean Region. We have been working with the Triangle Arts Trust to develop a more consistent form of support for this regional initiative. The other sites under current negotiation are Argentina, Aruba, Columbia, and Bolivia. The Martinique workshop is due to take place in May 2002.
big River2 Workshop Group
Watamula
International Artists Workshop
Curaçao
23 September - 12th October 2000
‘Watamula’ is the first such workshop to be held in Curaçao. Carib.4ce is the name that was given to the Working Group of four artists from Curaçao and Aruba who organised and hosted the project. ‘Watamula’ was a collaboration between Carib.4ce and Caribbean Contemporary Arts.
Participating artists:
Laura Facey Cooper (Jamaica)
Herman Van Bergen (Curaçao)
Osaira Muyale (Aruba)
Subba Ghosh (India)
Renwick Heronimo (Aruba)
Tirzo Martha (Curaçao)
Yubi Kirindongo (Curaçao)
Lourdes Penarando (Venezuela)
Nelson González (Venezuela)
Wilson Diaz Polanco (Colombia)
Wilfredo Prieto (Cuba)
Thierry Major (Martinique)
Tony Monsanto (Curaçao)
Richard Bolai (Trinidad)
Ryan Oduber (Aruba)
Watamula Workshop Group
La
Llama International Artists Workshop
Venezuela
4th – 18th June 2000
La Llama offered 20 artists of various nationalities, the chance to live and work together at Tacata Arriba, for a two weeks exchange. La Llama confronted the hegemony of established systems, regarding the creation, circulation and promotion of artistic works both nationally and internationally.
La
Llama Workshop Group
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2000 Luis Romero
big
River International Artists Workshop
Trinidad
18th April –
3rd May 1999
CCA hosted the first International Artists Workshop in Trinidad
from April 18th - May 3rd 1999. The workshop, entitled ‘big River’,
gave twenty-two participating artists from thirteen countries the opportunity
to work uninterrupted. Artists were encouraged to experiment and develop
new ideas and practices, often using unusual materials. The workshop was
situated at the remote location of Grande Riviere, on Trinidad's north
coast.
The 'working group' (G3+) encouraged site specific work and collective interactions and was very much concerned with ecological and environmental development, especially in the light of modern political and economic divisions, and the ways in which the contemporary artist reflects these. Widening the notion of ecological and environmental issues, the working group was committed to sharing these ideas with artists from other countries, who learnt from each other's diverse points of view regarding their practice and roles as artists in the developing world.
Participants sought the freedom and metaphorical space in which to develop their creative abilities in a situation that was neither determined by aesthetic dogmas imported from Europe and America nor by the necessities of the market which often drives artists to make objects for the tourist trade.
The Open Day was an opportunity for approximately 600 visitors from all over the island to see the work on-site. An exhibition of some of the work produced at ‘big River’ was then held at the National Museum in Port of Spain on May 5th 1999. A catalogue has been published and Banyan Productions has produced a 1 hour documentary about the workshop.
big River Workshop Group