The Analysis and Tutorial Program on the Clark Artwork Institute presents “The place the Ozama Meets the Caribbean Sea: Dominican Artwork and Social Advocacy within the Ecotone” by Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert. This lecture occurred immediately (Tuesday, March 15, 2022). The video for this lecture can be launched on Tuesday, March 22. The video will stay obtainable till June 15, 2022.
Description: On this Analysis and Tutorial Program lecture, Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert (Vassar Faculty / Caribbean Artwork and Its Diasporas Fellow) examines the position of artists in addressing issues concerning the vulnerability of the inhabitants of the communities dwelling alongside the banks of the Ozama River in Santo Domingo within the face of violent political repression, rampant environmental air pollution, and the impacts of local weather change. The presentation focuses on tasks and performances by two artists—Silvano Lora and Domingo Liz—whose extremely politicized tasks aimed to supply environmental help and advocacy.
Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert is a professor of Caribbean cultures and ecologies at Vassar Faculty in Dutchess County, New York, the place she holds the Sarah Tod Fitz Randolph Distinguished Professor Chair. Her analysis focuses on the intersections of artwork, tradition, and the surroundings within the Caribbean area, with explicit consideration to local weather change. Her most up-to-date work consists of the forthcoming Extinctions: Colonialism, Biodiversity, and the Narratives of the Caribbean (Liverpool College Press, forthcoming) and Misplaced Paris of the West Indies: Inventive Responses to the 1902 Eruption of Martinique’s Mont Pelée Volcano (Liverpool College Press, forthcoming). She co-edits Repeating Islands, a weblog on Caribbean tradition. Her undertaking on the Clark, “The place the River Meets the Sea: Visualizing Local weather Change within the Dominican Republic,” explores the central position performed by up to date Dominican artists in chronicling and fascinating the plight of the endangered communities dwelling alongside the Ozama River as they face the influence of local weather change.
[Shown above: Domingo Liz, “Mural del Ozama.” Oil on Canvas (2009).]
For extra data, see https://www.clarkart.edu/occasion/element/1964-87956 and https://www.clarkart.edu/Analysis-Tutorial/Clark-Lectures/Lizabeth-Paravisini-Gebert