BAT: Bridging Art + Text
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Can art bridge across geographies and gaps of knowledge?
What connects Sápmi, Surinam and Schwitzerland? How do Christianity and Vodun intersect? Do Karen Blixen and Fidel Castro share common beliefs?
What might seem far removed, share close bonds when we look beyond national and historic divisions. The publication BAT: Bridging Art + Text, just released by Hurricane Publishing, looks into complex historic and current connections across the globe presenting international artists, scholars, curators and writers in 3 volumes of 800+ pages.
In-depth knowledge sharing The first volume shows the connections between art, performance and religion. In the second volume, artists and writers deal with racism as well as the omission of voice and identity. The third volume gathers artists and writers who actively critique history and its influence on present times.
The transfer of cultural and spiritual knowledge from Africa across the Atlantic and further towards Europe show the potential and strength of maintaining a shared cultural heritage. The strength of bridging creates ways of facing racism and prejudice and seeing old and new connections.
The book presents contemporary artists born or based in the Caribbean, Africa, Europe and the US creating an insight into aesthetics not often presented in Scandinavia.
Bridging: We wish to bridge the art works and their historical, political and personal contexts. These narratives not only influence the works but are also transformed through their aesthetics.
Art: Photography, installations, sculptures, paintings and stills from performances and video works.
+: The extract presents works inspired by spirituality, Jamaican dancehall culture, racial segregation in Cuba and being a woman of black ancestry and parentage living in a Nordic culture.
Text: Fiction, poetry, song lyrics, personal narratives, academic accounts and political discussions. The texts look into historical accounts of slavery, colonialism, racism and the transfer of cultural and spiritual knowledge and resistance across the Atlantic. The politics of blackness are discussed in texts on Negritude and Pan-Africanism, black identity and ethno-aesthetics.
Layout: Built up around the idea of the hidden and revealed foldouts the layout creates an intimate and tactile relation to the visuals. Generous attention and detail is given to the art works, as their stories and production envelops the heart of the book
BAT: Bridging Art + Text is curated by Michelle Eistrup, edited by Eistrup and Annemari Brogaard Clausen, produced by Anders Juhl, and published by Hurricane Publishing.
Contributors as they appear in publication
VOLUME 1
Michelle Eistrup
Temi Odumosu
Ery Cámara
Charl Landvreugd
Ebony G. Patterson
Nicholas Laughlin
Bárbaro Martìnez-Ruìz
Kenneth Dossar
Joseph Adandé
Mr. Dohinnon Mahounon Ayenima
Marika Seidler
C. Daniel Dawson
Robert Farris Thompson
VOLUME 2
Pia Arke
Naja Dyrendom Graugaard
Yvette Brackman
Mathias Kryger
Helene Lundbye Petersen
Christopher Cozier
Monique Meloche
Nicholas Laughlin
Patricia Kaersenhout
RuNett Nia Ebo
Ralph Ellison
Gillion Grantsaan
Carlos Moore
VOLUME 3Sasha Huber
Hans Fässler
Maria Helena P. T. Machado
Jeff Mahuika
Britt Kramvig
Jeannette Ehlers
Kristian Handberg
Patricia Kaersenhout
Mawuna Remarque Koutonin
Noufel Bouzeboudja
Yo-Yo Gonthier
Marie Guéret
Francoise Vergès
Søren Assenholt
Sanne Flyvbjerg
James Muriuki
Syowia Kyambi
Sasha Dees
Anders Juhl
Ato Malinda
Stefan Saffer
Dudley Joseph Thompson
Catherine Lefebvre
The editors wish to thank the artists, writers, curators and poets mentioned above, for their independent and original contribution to the BAT publication, and for their patience in the editing stages of the production. Your contribution is sincerely appreciated and gratefully acknowledged.
http://michelleeistrup.com/link/BAT_Bridging_Art_and_Text