GALVANIZE 1.3

CCA is busy with Galvanize and encouraging you to view the blog at http://projectgalvanize.blogspot.com for continuous updates, retrospective postings and many images of the artists projects. We congratulate the artists and the Galvanize team for their efforts and work.

We also welcome Chemi Rosado from Puerto Rico who has joined us for eight weeks on the Artist-in-Residence programme.

Galvanize is about to launch the final segment of its 6 - week contemporary programme which was situated throughout Port of Spain from the 14th of September to the 26th of October.
View these projects that are part of Galvanize 1.3

Please view the projects that are still up from Galvanize 1.2 here

We invite you to the launch of Galvanize 1.3, the third of a three-part programme, at CCA7, Thursday 12th of October, 2006 at 7pm.

Come meet the artists and learn more about their projects. (listing of artists for Galvanize 1.3)

Hosted in the InterAmericas Space at CCA is documentation of the artists’ projects which have been updated with a ‘sketchbook’ effect, images, sketches and notes from the artists pinned to the wall.

Hosted in THE ART ROOM are videos in and of the Caribbean (listing).


Visibly Absent Artists Interventions: 13th of October to the 26th, 2006.

Marlon Griffith: Doppleganger
Venue: Mangoes Restaurant, Cor Chacon Street and Independence Square

Nikolai Noel: The Black Eye Project
Venue: CCA and Outdoor locations in and around Port of Spain

Some of Nikolai's Venues:

Lower Edward Street.
Chacon Street. car park
Abandoned gas station Western Main Road
Arched walkway Sandcreite
Cocorite

Alex Smailes: Back in Times
Venue: SWWTU Hall, Wrightson Road


Sound and Lyrics: Gary Hector and Jointpop: ‘Make a Holy Noise’
Saturday 14th of October, 2006 at 8pm. Venue: To be announced - see blogspot

Performance: Akuzuru: “Meta- Osmotica”
Tuesday 17th October 2006, 6 30pm
Venue: form and Function, 15 Gaston Johnston Street, WoodBrook

Retrospective: Design Works by Illya Furlonge-Walker
Tuesday 17th October, 006 at 6 30pm.
Venue: Form and Function, 15 Gaston Johnston Street

Conversation: Monsters and other Animals: Poems and Fictions
Thursday 19th October, 2006 at 630pm.
Venue: InterAmericas Space
Participants: James Christopher Aboud, Anu Lakhan, Nicholas Laughlin

Conversation: What Next?: Galvanize Post-Mortem
Thursday 26th October, 2006-10-05 Venue: InterAmericas Space, CCA7
Participants: Mario Lewis, Christopher Cozier, Steve Ouditt, Peter Doig, Nicholas Laughlin, Charlotte Elias


VISIBLY ABSENT: Artists’ interventions of GALVANIZE 1.2
29th September to 11th October, 2006

Akuzuru; Atonement for Our Transgressions
Venue: Queen’s Park Savannah, opposite the Botanical gardens

Parker Nicholas: Light, Lyrics, and Boxes
Venue: Mode Alive, Frederick Street, Downtown

Tessa Alexander: Progressive Blindness
Venue: Eddie Bowen’s Studio, 25 Sydenham Avenue, St Ann’s

For opening hours during the week please call Tessa Alexander at 745 6816
Friday 5pm to 8pm and Saturdays 12 30pm to 6pm.

Sound and Lyrics: Sheldon holder and 12: “Naked As You Born”
Saturday 30th September, 2006 at 8pm.
Venue: Alice Yard, 80 Roberts Street, WoodBrook

Conversation: What is Worth Talking About: points for reference in our changing urban landscape

Multimedia installation addressing architecture, design and urbanism
- Interviews with Steve Ouditt, Azad Mohammed, Colin Laird, Darren Braithwaite
- Interviewer and installation facilitator: Sean Leonard
Project by Sean Leonard
Camera and editing - Jaime Lee Loy

Thursday 5th October to Wednesday 18th October, 2006
Venues: 3 Gray Street, St Clair; Form and Function, 15 Gaston Johnston Street, WoodBrook

Between 10am and 3pm Mondays to Fridays, and Saturdays, 12 30pm to 4 30pm.

Performance: Makeda Thomas: “Fresh Water”
Dance project, with light installation by Elspeth Duncan
Saturday 7th of October, 2006, 6 30pm
Venue: InterAmericas Space, CCA7
Dancers: Makeda Thomas, Shani Collins, Khaleah London, Sonja Dumas

Videos for Galvanize: 1.2 – screening in the ART ROOM

1. Osaira Muyale :
God Dog
Illusion

2. Elspeth Duncan:
Light and Night
Angel

3. Jo Ferly:
The Strange Fruit

4. Natalie Wei:
‘And they say ‘don’t play with poison.’

5. Phil Coy:
Omega

6. Tirzo Martha:
The Suicide Note

7. Remy Jungerman:
Flattened Toad Force/Office

8. Myrtha Richards:
Parenthese

9. Marc Marie joseph
Parenthese



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