Alleviative Objects: Intersectional Entanglement and Progressive Racism in Caribbean Art

David Frohnapfel

Published by transcript Verlag 2020

Alleviative Objects

Intersectional Entanglement and Progressive Racism in Caribbean Art

David Frohnapfel

Volume 43 in the series Postcolonial Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839455920

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The global field of contemporary art is shaped by inter-racial conflicts. Alleviative Objects approaches Caribbean art through intersectional entanglements and combines decolonial epistemologies with critical whiteness studies and affect theory in order to rethink `Euro- and U.S.-centric' perspectives on art, race, and class. David Frohnapfel shows how progressive racism in the discourse on Haitian art recenters Whiteness by performing benign, innocent, and heroic identifications with the artist group Atis Rezistans. While the study turns critically towards Whiteness, it also turns away from it and towards the compelling contributions of Haitian curators and artists to the decentralization of contemporary art.

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David Frohnapfel studied art history, comparative literature, and religious studies at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich and at the Universidad de la Habana in Havana. He works on contemporary art and visual culture from the Caribbean region and defended his dissertation, Disobedient Musealities. Dialogue and Conflict in the Art Scene of Port-au-Prince, at Freie Universität Berlin in 2017. His research focuses on decolonial theory, critical race theory, critical whiteness studies, and affect theory. He also worked as curator of The 3rd Ghetto Biennale: Decentering the Market and Other Tales of Progress in Port-au-Prince together with Leah Gordon, André Eugène, and Jean Herald Celeur, and curated the exhibition NOCTAMBULES on Queer Visualities on the occasion of Le Forum Transculturel d'Art Contemporain.

Reviews

»Überaus lesenswerte Studie.«
Michael Klipphahn, www.sehepunkte.de, 21/5 (2021)

Besprochen in:
https://networks.h-net.org, 20.11.2020, Marlene Daut
https://brill.com, 14.10.2021, Natacha Giafferi-Dombre
Journal of Haitian Studies, 27/1 (2021), Carlo A. Célius

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
Glossary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
1 Sharing Silences: Inter-klas Dialogues in the Art Scene of Port-au-Prince Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
2 Conditional Hospitality: Atis Rezistans in European and U.S. American Art Institutions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
3 Gestures of Generosity: Politics of Emotions at the Ghetto Biennale in Port-au-Prince Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
4 Between Harmony and Anger: Exhibition Spaces by Eugène, Guyodo, Getho, and Papa Da Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
5 Disobedient Musealities: The Master’s Tools Revisited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
Resume: Alleviative Objects, or Translating Black Suffering into White Pedagogy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291
List of Illustrations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	313

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 318
Keywords: Haiti; Caribbean; Socially-engaged Art; Installation Art; Racism; Whiteness; Decoloniality; Intersectionality; Affect; Museum; Art; Postcolonialism; South American Art; Cultural Anthropology; Museology; Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: December 27, 2020
ISBN: 9783839455920