The Pleasure of Disorientation I Erica James
Keywords
Disorientation, creoleness, diversity, miscegenation
Abstract
The author proposes a new concept, disorientation, susceptible of defining Caribbean art in a better way than creoleness or miscegenation. She claims to renounce to analyze Caribbean artistic production through the prism of the most recent international theoretical trends, as well as to locate in those a unifying aesthetic.
Erica M. James
Erica M. James is a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in the Department of Art History and Archaeology. She earned her Ph.D. in Art History from Duke University. Her research interests center on the Arts of the African Diaspora, particularly the Caribbean and the Americas.
Currently on an extended leave as Director and Chief Curator of the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, Dr. James has held and received numerous fellowships and awards, including the prestigious Clark Fellowship from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, The John Hope Franklin Fellowship at Duke University, and the International Association of University Women graduate fellowship.
Her most recent publications include “Communion”, an essay on the artist Rotimi Fani Kayode, which appeared in the British photography journal Next Level and “The Pleasure of Disorientation” a catalogue essay for The Global Caribbean Exhibition held at the Haitian Cultural Centre, Miami as a part of Art Basel 2009. She is currently working on a book based on her doctoral thesis entitled “Re-Worlding a World: Caribbean Art in the Global Imaginary.”
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