CLARK CONFERENCE

BEYOND BOUNDARIES: SEEING ART HISTORY FROM THE CARIBBEAN

Artist conversations

In advance of the conference, artists patricia kaersenhout and Andrea Chung engaged with conference conveners, Anna Arabindan-Kesson and Wayne Modest, in lively conversations about their work, intersectionality, art history as a discipline, and how they think about the Caribbean—past, present, and future—as concept, method, and practice.

“Transformative Justice” with patricia kaersenhout, artist, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

patricia kaersenhout is an artist who was born in the Netherlands, descendant of Surinamese parents, whose artistic practice investigates her Surinamese background in relation to her upbringing in a West European culture. The political thread in her work raises questions about the African Diaspora’s movements and its relation to feminism, sexuality, racism, and the history of slavery. She considers her art practice to be social, and her work seeks to empower young men and women of color and supports marginalized people. By revealing forgotten histories she tries to regain dignity and create transformative justice. She frequently exhibits in the Netherlands and abroad. Recently four major Dutch museums acquired the installation Guess who’s coming to dinner too?, which refers to Judy Chicago’s canonical work The Dinner Party, only this time honoring erased and forgotten black and brown heroines of resistance. www.pkaersenhout.com

“DREAMING IN THE FACE OF THE IMPOSSIBLE” WITH ANDREA CHUNG, ARTIST, SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA

Andrea Chung is an artist who lives and works in San Diego, California. She received a BFA from Parsons School of Design in New York and an MFA from Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. Her recent biennale and museum exhibitions include the Addison Museum of American Art, Prospect 4, New Orleans and the Jamaican Biennale, and California African American Museum in Los Angeles, and the Ford Foundation. In 2017, her first solo museum exhibition, You broke the ocean in half to be here, took place at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. She has participated in national and international residencies including the Kohler Industry Residency, Headlands Center for the Arts, and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Her work has been written about in The New York Times, Artnet, and Hyperallergic, among others. Her work is included in collections such as the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Cleveland Clinic Art & Medicine Institute, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Addison Museum of American Art, and the J. Paul Getty Museum.

These videos will be available to view through January 15, 2023.

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