Round Table

CREATING/LIVING IN A TRANSNATIONAL ART COMMUNITY

Education Space (MOAD @ MDC), 600 Biscayne Blvd | Transportation Options

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For the past 22 years, Miami-based Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator has been promoting dialogue between artists of the global south through international cultural exchanges. Selected creators have travelled across the Caribbean Sea and Atlantic Ocean, which Paul Gilroy suggests must be viewed as complex units of analysis in our discussion of the modern world and used to “produce an explicitly transnational and intercultural perspective.” The plasticians have debated Diasporan art and culture with their counterparts in Anglophone, Hispanophone, Dutch and French Caribbean nations. Referencing Edouard Glissant, Kamau Brathwaite, Aimé Césaire, and Benitez Rojo, through workshops, roundtables, studio visits and exhibits they have discussed what it means to be artists living and working in the global south of which Miami is an extension. In a round table conversation a panel of DVCAI members will expand on the significance of creating and maintaining a transnational art community for their practice.

Rosie Gordon-Wallace is the founder, curator and president of Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator. Since 1996, she has initiated and produced transnational creative programs that redefine concepts of “Diaspora” including the International Cultural Exchange Program.

Alix Pierre, Ph.D., teaches at Spelman College in the departments of African Diaspora Studies and World Languages and Literature. He has project managed DVCAI’s Guadeloupe 2015 and 2017 ICEs. He’s been the scholar-in-Residence since 2015.