HEROES BY JAMES HACKETT

art by James Hacket http://www.shizzies.com

DAVE WILLIAMS PERFORMS AT CHOGM OPENING, NOV.27th 2009

ANDERSON MITCHELL and Senzala Capoeira Trinidad & Tobago

Look for ANDERSON MITCHELL and Senzala Capoeira Trinidad & Tobago in the long shots upper left and approaching the 2.45 mark centre stage.

Draconian Switch Issue 10 Bonus book...

BEHIND THE SOL... online now.
download this collaborative effort here...

http://www.artzpub.com/alt/pdf/behindsol.pdf

Design: Richard Rawlins • artzpub.blogspot.com
Text: Anya Ayoung Chee, Darryn Boodan & Mariel Brown
Photography as credited: Rodell Warner, Michele Jorsling,
Richard Rawlins, Mariel Brown and Jonathan Mora

Wendell McShine in Draconian Switch 10

THE NEW ISSUE:

http://www.artzpub.com/alt/pdf/drsw10.pdf
The new issue of Draconian Switch is now online. This issue features the work of artist Wendell McShine. Writing contributions are Darryn Boodan, Dave Williams, Sophie Wight, Tracy Hutchings and guest editor Indra Ramcharan.

MULTIMEDIA:
This issue is a multimedia pdf and is best viewed with ...adobe acrobat reader. download it here
http://www.adobe.com/go/EN_US-H-GET-READER

HAPPENINGS AT THE SWITCH:

Publisher Richard Rawlins is currently working on issue 2 of the five issue limited edition Rockstone and Bootheel emagazine for the REAL ART WAYS gallery in Conneticut.

http://www.artzpub.com/alt/rockstoneandbootheel/index.html

Editor Darryn Boodan and Writer Tracy Hutchings have just completed a short film for the Transformations New Directions in Black Art Conference

http://vimeo.com/7260177

http://www.madblog.org/2009/11/transformations-new-directions-in-black-art-conference/

Photographer Rodell Warner was recently featured in Small Axe magazine

http://www.artzpub.com/alt/rockstoneandbootheel/index.html

The Switch's Web designer Anderson Mitchell and Writer Dave Williams are both performing in the opening ceremony of the CHOGM meeting in Port of Spain Trinidad on November 27th.

Akuzuru: Vein Monday 23 November, 2009, at 8.00 pm ALICE YARD...

Akuzuru: Vein
Monday 23 November, 2009, at 8.00 pm


Part of Akuzuru's Earthology performance, India, 2008


To coincide with the 2009 Commonwealth People's Forum in Port of Spain, and to celebrate the Commonwealth Foundation's support for artists via the Commonwealth Connections International Arts Residencies, Alice Yard will host a new performance work by Trinidadian artist Akuzuru on the evening of Monday 23 November.

In 2008, Akuzuru spent several months living and working in India with the support of a Commonwealth arts residency. The result was Earthology, a "spatial work in three acts" incorporating large-scale sculptural installations and performance. The entire project is documented in a limited edition catalogue titled Earthology India.

Vein, the new work which Akuzuru will create at Alice Yard, is a further installment in what she conceives as an "epic opus" unfolding in locations around the world. The performance will begin at 8.00 pm and run for approximately 45 minutes.

The event will also include a small installation documenting the work of Nigerian artist Bright Ugochukwu Eke, who was artist-in-residence at Alice Yard in 2008, supported by the Commonwealth Foundation.

Vein is part of the programme for the Creativity and Innovation component of the Commonwealth People's Forum. Delegates to the forum and representatives of the Commonwealth Foundation will attend, and Alice Yard invites members of the public to come and join in an informal conversation about creative connections across the Commonwealth.

All are invited.

About the artist:
Akuzuru is an "experiential artist" known for her performances and large sculptural-installation works. Interdisciplinary in approach, she creates experiences, working primarily in the natural environment. She has had solo exhibitions in the United Kingdom, Nigeria, South Africa, and various locations in the Caribbean. She was artist-in-residence at the Bag Factory in Johannesburg in 2002 and a participant in the 2006 Galvanize programme in Trinidad.

EL PEQUEÑO LIBRO NEGRO

EL PEQUEÑO LIBRO NEGRO from wendell mc shine on Vimeo.

New clips from the art project ¨La Puerta Abierta¨
These are some of the little black book sketches for the up coming HD animation movie by artist Wendell Mc Shine

3rd-world the series by Artist: Wendell Mc Shine

3rd world- in studio with artist: Wendell Mc shine from wendell mc shine on Vimeo.

Gallery Anno Domini presents...
FRESH PRODUCE
9th Annual Invitational Group Exhibit
50 artists from around the world have created hundreds of works of art for this highly anticipated annual exhibition and art sale.

Exhibition & Sale Opens: First Friday, December 4, 2009
8pm til late, free and open to the public
On view through January 16, 2009

eMAG Rockstone & Bootheel online NOW.

Produced by Richard Rawlins, Draconian Switch publisher/designer, the limited 5 issue monthly ROCKSTONE & BOOTHEEL eMAGAZINE for the exhibit runs from November 2009 til March 2010 . Look out for a new issue by the 14th of every month.

This is a multimedia Adobe Acrobat pdf. Please view using Adobe Acrobat Reader or you'll miss out on the fun. Thanks...

DOWNLOAD IT HERE

Rockstone and Bootheel: Contemporary West Indian Art Exhibition is curated by Kristina Newman-Scott and Yona Backer at the Hartford Conneticut Real Art Ways gallery.

The show will feature some 39 plus artists among them, Christopher Cozier, Jamie Lee Loy, Akuzuru, Marlon Griffith, Wendell McShine, Adele Todd, Dave Williams and Ras Kassa.

The show opens with Christopher Cozier's temporary sound installation, Sound System, and a performance by Zachary Fabri. The show closes with a performance by dancer/choreographer Dave Williams.

Esther Figueroa: Jamaica For Sale at ALICE YARD

Wednesday 18 November, 2009, at 7.30 pm

Jamaica for Sale is a feature-length documentary film about the economic, social, and environmental impacts of tourism and unsustainable development in Jamaica, directed by Esther Figueroa and produced in collaboration with Diana McCaulay.

On Wednesday 18 November, Alice Yard will host the Trinidad and Tobago premiere of Jamaica For Sale, with director and producer Esther Figueroa in attendance. The film will be introduced by economist Norman Girvan, and afterwards Figueroa will engage the audience in an informal discussion.

All are invited.

read it all here
http://aliceyard.blogspot.com/2009/11/esther-figueroa-jamaica-for-sale.html

Dave Williams on Rodell Warner Losing your head in the Photobooth By Dave Williams

In my time in the “arts” in Trinidad & Tobago, I‘ve come to notice an interesting shift in the power and pursuits of artists. According to artist, Christopher Cozier, “artistic enterprise was about rendering or representing an inventory prescribed as Caribbean”. Consequently, artists produced works that were also intended to be inventory – made for sale. Today, however, in ‘e’ environment where the www has forever altered the transactive processes of the arts landscape, artistic practice has become more than just paints and canvas and exhibitions. Additionally, given the widely perceived shrinking of ambitions and voices of journalists, social scientists, teachers, priests, shrinks and operatives in every other social institution, artists are stepping in and filling the void.

read it all here
http://storage.smallaxe.net/wordpress/2009/11/09/dave-williams-on-rodell-warner/

DRACONIAN SWITCH PART OF ROCKSTONE & BOOTHEEL EXHIBITION OF CONTEMPORARY WEST INDIAN ART

DRACONIAN SWITCH magazine will be featured in the upcoming Rockstone and Bootheel: Contemporary West Indian Art Exhibition curated by Kristina Newman-Scott and Yona Backer at the Hartford Conneticut Real Art Ways gallery.

The show will feature some 39 plus artists among them, Christopher Cozier, Jamie Lee Loy, Akuzuru, Marlon Griffith, Wendell McShine, Adele Todd, Dave Williams and Ras Kassa.


The show opens with Christopher Cozier's temporary sound installation, Sound System, and a performance by Zachary Fabri. The shows eCatalog and visual paraphenalia is designed and produced by Richard Rawlins, Draconian Switch publisher/designer. Draconian Switch will actually be producing a limited 5 issue monthly eMAGAZINE for the exhibit starting this coming Wednesday . The issues will run until March 2010. The show closes with a performance by dancer/choreographer Dave Williams.

READ ALL ABOUT IT HERE on eFLUX or go directly to the REAL ART WAYS SITE

MARLON DARBEAU VERB CONTINUES TO FEATURE...

VERB ON PICOCOOL
http://picocool.com/design/verb-multifunctional-home-furnishing/



VERB ON DESIGN LAUNCHES.COM
http://www.designlaunches.com/furniture/verb_a_multifunctional_piece_of_furniture_personifies_its_name.php



VERB ON HOME TONE
http://www.hometone.org/entry/verb-multifunctional-home-furnishing/



VERB ON MATERIALICIOUS
http://www.materialicious.com/2009/10/verb-multifunctional-home-furnishing.html

thisdiscoursehasno-startmiddlend

Great post about Dave Williams, Dancer/Choreographer at http://pleasurett.blogspot.com.
And by the way...PLEASURETT.BLOGSPOT.COM is a really great blog.

Art in all it's forms indeed.
Read it all here.

MAD: museum of arts and design highlights "Critical Space" film

One of the highlights of the conference was a conversation submitted by Christopher Cozier, artist/ writer in Trinidad, in which he and publisher Richard Rawlins discussed the “creative possibilities” in the Caribbean as well as the “collaborative networks, off- and online, that are evolving around Alice Yard and its partners.” Cozier is co-curator and “instigator” of the Alice Yard space and blogspot with architect Sean Leonard, writer /editor Nicholas Laughlin, and musician Sheldon Holder. Read it all here.

http://www.madblog.org/2009/11/transformations-new-directions-in-black-art-conference/

CHECK OUT PROYECTO CAPITAL

See it all here plus more pictures
http://proyectocapital09.blogspot.com/2009/11/proyecto-capital-concept.html

Proyecto Capital is a collective between two Colombian artists, Alejandro Mina and Mar Molano, and local artist Michelle Isava.

Together they have been collecting the coins that decorate the streets of the Port of Coins. It is based on the way foreign eyes see differently. Michelle Isava has been acting as the intermediary between the foreign and the local as she herself is half and half; with a family background from Venezuela but by birth a Trinidadian.

Once they had discovered that the coins were everywhere they felt compelled to start collecting. The interest lies in the coin's value, in Colombia a coin can be worth as much as 200 pesos and in Venezuela it can be as much as 500 b.s. and so coins are never found abandoned on the ground.

The plan therefore of this collaboration is to install mountains of coins
in various locations around the Port of Spain and document
the people's reaction to them.