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About Transforming Spaces

Transforming Spaces is an annual island-wide art bus tour held in Nassau, The Bahamas, showcasing the best in contemporary Bahamian visual art. Now in its nineteenth year, Transforming Spaces continues to showcase the amazing talent of both emerging and professional Bahamian artists!

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Sexypink - Akuzuru - Upcoming Performance

S P O R A MYSTICA

a new environmental performance work

by   A k u z u r u

COMMISSIONED BY : The National Museum and Art Gallery of Trinidad & Tobago -  

Venue : City Of Port Of Spain -Fort San Andres -

In celebration of WORLD ART DAY 2023

Themed : Performance is Art

Artist Proposal  (Posters Attached ) From The Artist

S P O R A MYSTICA is an ode to the purity of existence and the mystically imbued qualities of Spores . This inter galactic experience of the cosmic microscopic unseen suggests an inter-dimensional phenomena within the traversing patterns of Spores . Humans and animals breathe in , literally inhale millions of spores continually .

Each breath carries the essential life force of spores that makes existence a magnificent  intangible happening . Spores are a continuum of new births .

The artist through performative communion with the unseen microscopically powerful S P O R A will be attuned through various gestures and stamps of sound , movement , texture and form as her body / bodies as spore selves navigate the grounds of Fort San Andres , connecting the trees as sentinels with the architectural and mounted historical structures .

As an environmental intervention , this multi-sensorial work will most pointedly engage the surrounding ocean -the water element- which flanks the earth itself becoming an integral core of this exploration .This process as a cumulative effect will transmit the essential vibrations , toward a heightened sense of awareness resulting , in a deeply transformative experience so that a communion of elements and interstitial spaces amplifies the mystical prowess of our spore selves within the whole of S P O R A as an Omnipotent force .

© A k u z u r u  2023

A k u z u r u  Artist Biography

A k u z u r u  is an Avant Garde artist whose practice spans 30 years . She produces through a TransDisciplinary praxis straddling multiple approaches . Her thought provoking works invokes the unseen , where the material and the immaterial are as connectedly interspersed as the immanent and transcendent . Primarily environmental using vast spaces in the natural world and connected into the spatial appropriations of interiors of building spaces , her other- worldly forms in her installations or 'spatial works ' and expansive Performative AkTivations inoculates into the viewer deeply indelible emotive experiences .

The artist has established a multi-faceted lexicon of performative works which include her Ak-tionisms, Spontaneous Art, Spatial Works, Gesture Works, Experiential Art, whether live or on film. With the natural world and metaphysics being central to her process, her immersive complex presentations are expansive , often multi-locational , involving a multitude of persons whom she calls her co-performers, as well as deeply engaging solo expressions.

Having lived, studied and practiced in Trinidad, the UK and Nigeria for many years, her Total Art experiences are conceptually and physically intense - integral - often interak-tive, multi-genre constructions,  emphasizing performance art's radical axis as a dynamic and powerful art form.

This Environmental-Transdisciplinary artist has become known for her multi-genre works and her many performances including her iconic healing chambers and large sculptural-installations consistently presented worldwide at prestigious institutions and powerful natural environments including the Caribbean, Europe, Africa, Asia and the United States.

A pioneer in the radical presence-ing of performance art in Trinidad and the Caribbean, her evolvement as an artist during a thirty year practice, has exhibited a steady embrace of performance art as her primary focus in her TransDisciplinary visions, a metaphysically dynamic intersection of the human and natural world; encapsulating the science of space, light, sound, silence , movement, gesture and nuance .

The artist has been the recipient of numerous International awards from the Prince Claus Fund- Netherlands , the City of Munich- Germany and the Commonwealth Foundation- UK .

Significant solo presentations at important institutions include the National Museum of Trinidad & Tobago , PAMM - Perez Art Museum Miami in the US and the Buchheim Museum - Germany .

A k u z u r u  was also Art Lecturer for experimental practice at the University of the West Indies -Trinidad & Tobago during fifteen years.

Her project -Earthology- is an epic ongoing global opus.

© A k u z u r u  2023

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Sexypink - Important Initiatives

Windrush Portraits’ is a transatlantic artist collaboration with Michael Elliot (Jamaica) and Mary Evans (UK), delivered in partnership with Kingston Creative and the John Hansard Gallery and funded by a grant from Arts Council England. Windrush Portraits commemorates the Windrush Generation and gives voice to the subsequent Windrush scandal in the UK and the issues that exist around Windrush policy in Jamaica. Each artist will be showing work from their individual bodies of work, the ‘Windrush Series’ and ‘Please Do Not Bend’ respectively, on billboards nationwide in Jamaica. Register for the launch  event, an online talk with visual artists Michael Elliott (Jamaica) and Mary Evans (UK) at 1pm EST this coming Wednesday 1st February to learn more about ‘Windrush Portraits' and the artists' practice and this transatlantic collaboration! On Wednesday 1st February to commemorate Black History Month, ‘Windrush Portraits’ will launch the first stage of a nationwide public art exhibition to transform notions around the historically ‘permanent’ nature of public art. The project engages artists in co-creating the public space and engages audiences nationwide via digital billboard broadcast of visual conversations about Windrush on either side of the Atlantic. ‘Windrush Portraits’ will have a second staging in October 2023, in both Jamaica and the UK, with new works by both artists, after a summer of collaborative exchange between the artists and various Windrush communities both in Jamaica and the UK.  

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~Sexypink~  NO WORDS: A SOLO EXHIBITION BY KEVIN ADONIS BROWNE

Curated by Marsha Pearce

In 2020 Kevin Adonis Browne wrote No Words, an essay in response to the killing of George Floyd in Minnesota USA. He then translated his text into a number of digital videos.

 The No Words exhibition brings together his videos and a series of his self-portraits in its address of Black life and Black representation during a critical, global juncture marked by racial violence. The exhibition attends to worldwide experiences through a personal lens. It presents Browne’s work as a sequence of radical breaths drawn in a landscape of anti-Blackness. No Words transforms the physical gallery into an essay in three dimensions – offering a space to reflect on present and future states of individual and collective existence.

Exhibition dates: April 26 – May 7, 2021Venue: Thinkartworktt Studio, 11 Cipriani Boulevard, Port of Spain      

Monday to Saturday: 11am to 7pmFor visits on Sunday: Send a message to book a viewing time.

WhatsApp: 769-1948Covid-19 public health protocols observed. 

Visitor capacity is limited, and face coverings are required.