XXXVII AICA CONGRESS 2003, Southern Carribean: " Repositions Repossessions "

BARBADOS, 11-12 NOVEMBER 2003

Official opening of the Congress
 Nick Whittle, General Secretary of AICA Southern Carribean & Co-organiser of the Congress
 Allinson Thompson, President of AICA Southern Carribean
 Henry Meyric Hughes, President of AICA
 Hon. Mia A.Mottley, Deputy Prime Minister & Attorney-General
 Alissandra Cummins, Chairperson, National Art Gallery Commitee & Director, Barbados Museum & Historical Society

Developping Nations : Identity and Culture
Feature presentation
Kamau Brathwaite, Barbados : Possession & Repossession

Gladstone Yearwood, Barbados : Aesthetic Expression in Barbadian Traditional Culture : The Barbadian Chattel House
Jennifer Smit, Curacao : ABC, A(ruba), B(onaire), C(uracao) : The Case of the Dutch Carribean Leeward Islands

SESSION 1 : PUBLIC/ POPULAR ART

 Political

Moderators
Henry Meyric Hughes, President of AICA
Allinson Thompson, President of AICA Southern Carribean

Veerle Poupeye, Jamaica : ‘Wrong Race, Wrong Colour, Wrong Class’ : The Public Controversy about Laura Facey Cooper’s Emancipation Monument in Jamaica
Elona Lubyte, Lithuania : The Steps of Changes : Sculpture un Public Spaces - The Strategies of alternativeness, opening and openness
Laimute Kreivyte, Lithuania : Going Public : The Strategies of Interaction
Milanka Todic, Serbia : The Art in Street Protests
Leda Guimarães, Brasil : Arts & Crafts in Brazil : Fairs as Artistic and Aesthetics Hybridization Space in the city of Goiânia [Communication in Spanish]
Fatma Ismail, Egypt : The Koum Ghourab Project

Panel Discussion
Leslie King-Hammond & Jose Mapily : Profound Visions : The Ordinary as Extraordinary - The Popular Artist in the Vision of Modern and Post-modern Art

 Media

Moderators
Ramon Tio Bellido, General Secretary of AICA
Christian Chambert, President of AICA Sweden

Gerardo Mosquera, Cuba : The City as Protagonist. An International Urban Art Project in Panama
Judith Gutman, USA : Photography Re-inventeing the Wheel, Turning Private into Public

 Religious

Moderator
Haydee Venegas, AICA Puerto Rico

Orlando Hernández, Cuba : Odara, Babeche, Abarorí : Short Notes on Santera, Palera and Abakuá Aesthetics [Communication in Spanish]
Sabine Grosser, Germany : Transferring Visual Culture of Commemoration : The Shrine of Innocents - An Effective Fusion of Western and Asian Traditions

SESSION 2 : INSTITUTIONS, CURATOR, CRITICS

Moderator
Taava Koskinen, AICA Finland

Alissandra Cummins, Barbados : Public Art : Repositioning the Audience
Elaine King, USA : A Cultural Tapestry in a After Post Present
Michael Omoighe, Nigeria : Negotiated out of Position : The Artist in Modern Society
Nel Casimiri, Netherlands Antilles : Resusita
Lars Saari, Finland : Oops, They Did It Again - How to Construct Simplified Histories. Rhetorics of the Winners, and Cold War Seen from a Post-September 11 Viewpoint
Ola Oloidi, Nigeria : Culturally Oppressed, Yet Impressively Cultured : Modern Art in the Developing Countries

MARTINIQUE, 14-16 NOVEMBER 2003

Official opening of the Congress
 Michel Monrose, President of AMCA & Co-organiser of the Congress
 Henry Meyric Hughes, President of AICA
 Madame Madeleine Jouye de Grandmaison, President of the Culture, Sport and Associative Life Commission, Conseil Régional de Martinique
 Monsieur Jean-Claude Duverger, Vice-President of the Conseil Régional de Martinique
 Monsieur Michel Cadot, Préfet de la région Martinique
 André Pierre-Louis, poet and director of the Office Municipal de la Culture du Marin, Martinique

SESSION 3 : ARTISTIC GROWTH IN SMALL/ DEVELOPING COMMUNITIES

Moderators
Suzanne Lampla, AICA Southern Carribean
Allinson Thompson, President of AICA Southern Carribean

Virginia Perez Ratton, Costa Rica : Survival in small developing countries
Taava Koskinen, Finland : The Power of the Center versus Periphery
Valérie John, Martinique : Quest of... Investigation on art [Communication in French]
Irini Savvani, Greece : The Development of Visual Culture in Greece during the Last Decay and the Factors of this Evolution [Communication in French]
Nina Guetashvili, Russia : Small Communities in the Post-Soviet artistic space : Decay products or a New Whole

SESSION 4 : ART IN PUBLIC SPACE

Moderators
Dominique Brebion, Vice-President of AICA Southern Carribean Sophie D’Ingianni, AICA Southern Carribean

Liam Kelly, Ireland : Public Art in Rural, Costal and Small Urban Environments
Claude Yacoub, Martinique : Critical Analysis of some realisations in public space in Martinique [Communication in French]
Haydée Venegas, Puerto Rico : Public Art in Puerto Rico [Communication in Spanish]
Myrna Rodriguez, Puerto Rico : Public Art Projects in Puerto Rico
Jana Wisniewski, Austria : Artistic Signs in Open Space
Chen Chu Yin, France : Meeting Artificial Life in an Interactive Installation ‘Quorum Sensing’ [Communication in French]

SESSION 5 : REAPPROPRIATE THE ENVIRONMENT TO RECONQUER IT

Moderators
Christiane Dorleans
Chantal Charron

Susana Sulic, Argentina : New appropriation forms in arts [Communication in French]
Sophie D’Ingianni, Martinique : The Various Vivid and Material Popular Forms in Carribean Contemporary Art [Communication in French]
Sandra Rey, Brasil : States of Mind, States of Art : the inventory of Arthur Bispo de Rosario [Communication in French]
Suzanne Lampla, Martinique : When art define the city [Communication in French]

SESSION 6 : INSTITUTIONS, CURATORS, CRITICS

Ery Camara, Sénégal : Criticism, a challenge for African curators of the XXIst century [Communication in French]
Alix Pierre, USA : Light Brushes as plastical ‘Boulagel’ [Communication in French]