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Screening: Ojos Caribe - Casa Mella Russo
2023-03-30 15:39:35 UTC
Encantade de ser parte de este grupo de artistes. Gracias @patricia.encarnacion.c @yelaineartspace and @ginamgoico
Ojos Caribe invites you to its second edition of Caribbean videography and discussion panel, hosted by Casa Mella-Russo (@casamellarusso) during Design Week RD 2023.
Organized by Patricia Encarnación, co-curated with Yelaine Rodríguez and Gina Goico…
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AIR: FIAP Martinique
2023-03-01 15:43:00 UTC
Luis Vasquez la Roche est un artiste et éducateur qui réside entre Trinidad-et-Tobago et la Virginie. Diplômé des beaux-arts de l’université de Virginie, sa pratique s’intéresse aux aspects de la traite transatlantique des esclaves qui se répètent de manière variable dans le temps
Nous l’avons rencontré lors de Mar…
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Exhibition: My Condolences
2023-01-21 22:28:00 UTC
M+B is pleased to present MZ.25 (My Condolences), an exhibition by Monsieur Zohore. The exhibition opens on January 21 and will run through February 18, 2023 with an opening reception on Saturday, January 21 from 6 to 8 pm.
The value of blackness resides in its metaphorical aptitude,…
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Screening: Ojos Caribe
2022-12-17 15:36:00 UTC
Happy to be part of this group of artists
OJOS CARIBE: Videografía Caribeña y Panel Conversatorio (Cinemateca Dominicana)
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Por invitación de @estefanythen_ la artista Afro-Dominicana Yelaine Rodriguez invita a cinco artistas Caribeñes de República Dominicana y Trinidad & Tobago a una noche de proyección que se enfocará en la…
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Exhibition: InLight 2022
2022-11-18 22:17:00 UTC
InLight 2022
1708 Gallery’s 15th annual InLight will take place November 18-19, 2022 at Bryan Park in Richmond, Virginia. Artists will create works that engage with and expand upon the histories and current activities that comprise Bryan Park, as well as the site’s current uses. These include Gabriel’s Rebellion and…
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Exhibition: Caribbean Yet to Come
2022-11-09 22:21:00 UTC
Happy to be part of this. Thanks Arnaldo
Curated by VisArts’ 2022 Emerging Curator Arnaldo Rodríguez Bagué
Kaplan Gallery
November 9, 2022 – January 8, 2023
On the Coastlines of a Caribbean-yet-to-come is a curatorial research project that takes an embodied look at Caribbean islanders’ contemporary geographical performance practices enacted…
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Exhibition: Documenta Fifteen
2022-07-04 22:14:00 UTC
Happy to be invited to be part of Documenta 15 by Alice Yard
“Luis Vasquez La Roche is Alice Yard’s second artist in residence at documenta fifteen. From 4 to 17 July, 2022, they are based at WH22 in Kassel. During their time there, they will present a series of…
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Exhibition: Subversive Media: Materiality and Power
2022-06-05 00:09:00 UTC
Subversive Media: Materiality and Power
“Subversive Media: Materiality and Power posits that the often overlooked component of our visual language - materiality - plays a critical role in the representation of power. The 10 exhibiting artists creatively reconstruct our visual language through the articulation of material, underscoring the agency…
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Exhibition: Healing a Broken World
2021-07-01 06:36:00 UTC
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Above there is an image of the exhibition at the Inter-American Bank in Washington DC.
Here is a link to the publication:
https://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/Healing-a-Broken-World-The-Power-of-Art-for-Social-Transformation-in-the-Post-Pandemic-Era.pdf
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Exhibition: Precarious Performances
2021-06-20 05:39:18 UTC
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Happy to be part of the exhibition Precarious Performances. Curated by Chelsea A Flowers.
Opens on Monday, June 21st, 2021.
Check out that golden shoe…
Ase
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To Read: Art Connect - Artist to Watch
2021-06-18 20:41:12 UTC
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Got featured in Art Connect - Artist to watch :
https://www.magazine.artconnect.com/luis-vasquez-la-roche
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Project: Destination Log
2021-06-06 06:28:00 UTC
Honoured to have collaborated with Lisa-Marie Harris and Leanne Wiggers.
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Sails, secured in a casket, are sent between agents - from one artist to another - in different locations across different global cities. They travel alone, in stasis and isolated, in this time of inertia. Becoming reanimated, mutated, changed…
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To Read: Aint Bad 15
2021-06-06 06:18:00 UTC
I am part of Aint- Bad 15
I am looking forward to see the printed version
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“Aint–Bad issue No.15 represents some big things for our small company. 2020 was a year of unprecedented events, challenges, and outcomes. The world as we know it has changed, and so has Aint–Bad.…
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To Read: REST AT HOME
2021-04-23 06:08:00 UTC
Collaboration
REST AT HOME - CHRISTOPHER COZIER IN COLLABORATION WITH AMIR DENZEL HALL, ROBERT YOUNG, SUELYN CHOO AND LUIS VASQUEZ LA ROCHE(Trinidad and Tobago) for the IDB
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mihau58N6ts
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Exhibition: Visualizing / Performing Blackness in the Afterlives of Slavery: A Caribbean Archive
2021-04-02 20:47:00 UTC
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Happy to be part of this. Visualizing / Performing Blackness in the Afterlives of Slavery: A Caribbean Archive at The University of Chicago
https://afterlives.hum.uchicago.edu/
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To Read: Number INC Magazine
2021-03-29 20:32:00 UTC
Interview with Luis Vasquez La Roche
Written by Haley Clouser with Luis Vasquez La Roche
Through his performances and participatory installations, Trinidadian-Toboggan artist Luis Vasquez La Roche presents a mirror onto our world, raising pertinent questions on the historical and future realities of colonialism and labor systems. To unpack these…
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Entre Puerto Rico y Richmond: Women in Resistance Shall Not Be Moved
2021-03-20 06:23:00 UTC
The dance film “Entre Puerto Rico y Richmond: Women in Resistance Shall Not Be Moved” links interrelated histories of racism and colonial capitalism in Virginia and Puerto Rico. Filmed in a former American Tobacco Company warehouse, the film honors the spirit of resistance and liberation of Black female tobacco stemmers…
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Exhibition: An A-historical Daydream 14th A.I.R. Biennial
2021-02-12 06:44:00 UTC
February 12 — March 14, 2021
Curated by Jasmine Wahi
Jo Ann Block, Marcy Chevali, Jin-Yong Choi, Molmol Kuo, Marina Leybishkis, Nikki Luna, Helina Metaferia, Marianna Peragallo, Nitcha Tothong (Fame), Luis Vasquez La Roche, Noa Yekutieli
A.I.R. Gallery is pleased to present its 14th Biennial exhibition, An A-historical Daydream, curated…
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To Watch: Rumors of War: One Year Later
2021-01-23 05:54:00 UTC
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Rumors of War: One Year Later
Created by the 2020-2021 Museum Leaders in Training cohort at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
Glad I was part of this
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To Read: MFA Thesis - Art and Education
2021-01-14 06:13:00 UTC
Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts
arts.vcu.edu
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Like many other MFA programs in spring 2020, the graduating students at VCUarts were not able to show their work in a final thesis exhibition due to the global pandemic. There have been a wide array of…
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Exhibition: Reclaimed, Reimagined
2020-11-12 06:40:00 UTC
RECLAIMED, REIMAGINED Curated by David Rios FerreiraFeaturing: Kelly Chuning, Maya Ciarrocchi, Vanezza Cruz, Francisco Donoso, Alexis Duque, Fei Li, Maria Liebana, Dionis Ortiz, Deja Patterson, Brad Silk, Jill Slaymaker, Joey Solomon, Luis Vasquez La Roche
Opening Reception: Thurs, Nov. 12, 6-9pm
Dates: November 12 - December 12 2020
Regular Hours:…
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To Watch: November 2020
2020-11-06 05:40:37 UTC
November 2020 seems to be a very busy month
I will be talking to Middle and high school students in MLit organized by Fin Bradley from the Virginia Fine Arts Museum.
I will also be part of a series of group shows:
InLight / Afrikana Film Festival - 1708 Gallery.…
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AIR: Mar de Islas 2021
2020-10-12 06:30:00 UTC
Happy to be one of the selected artists for the performance encounter in Mar de Islas.
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Screening: Film Festivals
2020-08-28 17:21:06 UTC
I am happy to share with you all the Official selection of my video to the Afrikana Independent Film Festival and the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival
Synopsis
Collection of phrases from 2013 - 2016 that talk about blackness, failure, hopelessness, and death—thoughts about water on how it gives life…
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Exhibition: We Are More than a Moment
2020-08-12 06:42:00 UTC
Genevieve Gaignard, our MCLA Artist-in-Residence selected 40 artists from the nearly 100 submissions we received for the group exhibition, We Are More Than A Moment. MCLA’s Gallery 51 is grateful to Genevieve for curating this exhibition and we are very excited to open the show next Wednesday, August 12th
Here…