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CHEAP & CLEAN: The Documentary from arrdowblu on Vimeo . A project by Ebony G. Patterson.

9 out of 219 by Ebony G Patterson at Alice Yard Ebony G Patterson in conversation with Alice Yard's Christopher Cozier. Photos by Andre Bagoo. COFFINS everywhere. And bodies, too. They move, are moved, were moved. How motion stops the clock, makes the ephemeral eternal. How streets outside can enter these walls, this yard. Places of mourning become places of candle-light and flight. To feel alive. This is Ebony G Patterson's 9 out of 219 . FIND OUT MORE about this show, part of a series marking Alice Yard's fifth anniversary, here . * SEE more from the show here and here . * "The work, both in its participatory aspects as well as its form, evoked Emily Dickenson’s famous poem, “A coffin—is a small Domain”, the opening lines of which are: “A Coffin—is a small Domain, / Yet able to contain / A Citizen of Paradise / In it diminished Plane.” By making a place for these objects, the artist has taken the artist’s own space and carried it beyond its traditional limits.  ...

FROM the first in a series of shows to mark Alice Yard's fifth anniversary. Photos by Andre Bagoo.   READ more here .

* At night, you see, there seems to be one lit room. Who is at its exit, in the doorway, back turned? The soft rectangle of human frame widens. Who waits within the metal edging? In this state of nervousness, forearms go cold seconds before hands catch fire, excessive lotuses of flame. Would you – two dark torches loose at your sides – would you walk into the first of the long dark corridors in a building that consists more nearly of corridors than any that should ever have been designed? Each corridor runs like a spill of milk on a black tile reflected in a smoked glass ceiling clapped on the width of one layer of a hotel. These corridors are dark; you would feel them all like paleness? Though there were light I could not name their handcrafted nougat colours, gentler, intentionally washed-out. I walk in the dark, and you feel the walls’ paleness? For we ourselves are luminous. Except we do not give off light.  —From About by Vahni Capildeo, featured at Poetry International Web ...

LAGAHOO:  The creature takes on the form of a man with no head who roams the night with a wooden coffin on his neck. On top of the coffin are three lighted candles — NALIS * * * A COFFIN—IS A SMALL DOMAIN A Coffin—is a small Domain, Yet able to contain A Citizen of Paradise In it diminished Plane. A Grave—is a restricted Breadth— Yet ampler than the Sun— And all the Seas He populates And Lands He looks upon To Him who on its small Repose Bestows a single Friend— Circumference without Relief— Or Estimate—or End— — Emily Dickinson * * * On  Monday 25 July , at  7 pm , Ebony G Patterson will present her work in progress  9 of 219 at Alice Yard, Woodbrook. Both installation and performance, the work will be a “bling” funeral using the Patterson's characteristic heavily decorated objects. Audience members are asked to participate by bringing candles to join in the vigil. All are invited to the event which marks the start of Alice Yard's fifth year anniversary. * * * MORE ...

SEE RICHARD RAWLINS E-CAT here . The Art Museum of the Americas (AMA) announces the opening of  Wrestling with the Image: Caribbean Interventions , an exhibition of contemporary art from twelve Caribbean countries.   Featuring work by artists from the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago, the exhibition is curated by artist and curator  Christopher   Cozier  and art historian Tatiana Flores. Wrestling with the Image: Caribbean Interventions  presents works in a variety of media, including photography, video, painting, graphic arts, sculpture, and installation.  The scope of the objects demonstrates how the region’s contemporary artists are confronting stereotypes about the Caribbean without denying their own surroundings or rejecting the worlds in which they operate.   Through investigations on history, tourism...