Overview

"Relational Undercurrents accompanies an exhibition curated by Tatiana Flores for the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, California, which forms part of the Getty Foundation's Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA. This initiative examines the artistic legacy of Latin America and U.S. Latinos through a series of exhibitions and related programs. This exhibition catalog and volume edited by Flores and Michelle Ann Stephens calls attention to the artistic production of the Caribbean islands and their diasporas, challenging the conventional geographic and conceptual boundaries of Latin America. The editors offer an ""archipelagic model,"" which proposes a mapping of the Caribbean from the perspective of its islands as distinct from its continental coasts. The exhibition, organized around the four themes of Conceptual Mappings, Perpetual Horizons, Landscape Ecologies, and Representational Acts, highlights thematic continuities in the art of the insular Caribbean, placing Hispanophone artists in visual conversation with those from Anglophone, Francophone, Dutch, and Danish backgrounds. It includes over eighty artists, among them Tania Bruguera, Allora & Calzadilla, Christopher Cozier, Jorge Pineda, Edouard Duval-Carrie, and Ebony G. Patterson. In accompanying essays, curators, critics, and scholars discuss particular artistic traditions in Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, and Haitian art and theorize the broader decolonial and archipelagic conceptual frameworks within which such works are produced. Relational Undercurrents will be on display that the Museum of Latin American Art from September 2017 through January 2018. Publication by the Museum of Latin American Art in collaboration with Fresco Books / SF Design, LLC. Distributed by Duke University Press."

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The project as a whole helps to unpack connections between regional and international divides,and moreover between diaspora and island, land and sea, art and theory, histories and ground. It is an effort that will surely ripple, and that carries with it the potential to rupture and reconfigure modes of thinking of and through the insular Caribbean, its art,and its histories- told and untold. -- Adrienne Rooney * CAA Reviews *

"""The project as a whole helps to unpack connections between regional and international divides,and moreover between diaspora and island, land and sea, art and theory, histories and ground. It is an effort that will surely ripple, and that carries with it the potential to rupture and reconfigure modes of thinking of and through the insular Caribbean, its art,and its histories— told and untold."" -- Adrienne Rooney * CAA Reviews * ""In its compendious and imaginative reach, Relational Undercurrents augurs brightly for a new generation of scholarship on Caribbean art. . . . Beautiful color illustrations grace the volume throughout, showing details and installation views that document the work, much of it little known or exhibited. A fitting, interdisciplinary counterpart to Flores’s exhibition, Relational Undercurrents posits the power and plausible archipelagicity of contemporary Caribbean art, daring to chart new conceptual and topographical terrain."" -- Abigail McEwen * Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture *"

The project as a whole helps to unpack connections between regional and international divides, and moreover between diaspora and island, land and sea, art and theory, histories and ground. It is an effort that will surely ripple, and that carries with it the potential to rupture and reconfigure modes of thinking of and through the insular Caribbean, its art, and its histories-- told and untold. -- (07/01/2019)

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Tatiana Flores is Associate Professor of Art History and Latino and Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, and the author of Mexico's Revolutionary Avant-Gardes: From Estridentismo to !30-30!. Michelle Ann Stephens is Professor of English and Latino and Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, and coeditor of Archipelagic American Studies, also published by Duke University Press.

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