Riding with Death
Jana Evans Braziel
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University Press of Mississippi
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Bildende Kunst
Beschreibung
On the southern end of the Grand Rue, a major thoroughfare that runs through the center of Port-au-Prince, waits the Haitian capital's automobile repair district. This veritable junkyard of steel and rubber, recycled parts, old tires, and scrap metal might seem an unlikely foundry for art. Yet, on the street's opposite end thrives the Grand Rue Galerie, a working studio of assembled art and sculptures wrought from the refuse.
Established by artists André Eugène and Jean Hérard Celeur in the late 1990s, the Grand Rue's urban environmental aesthetics--defined by motifs of machinic urbanism, Vodou bricolage, the postprimitivist altermodern, and performative politics--radically challenge ideas about consumption, waste, and environmental hazards, as well as consider innovative solutions to these problems in the midst of poverty, insufficient social welfare, lack of access to arts, education, and basic needs.
In
Riding with Death, Jana Evans Braziel explores the urban environmental aesthetics of the Grand Rue sculptors and the beautifully constructed sculptures they have designed from salvaged automobile parts, rubber tires, carved wood, and other recycled materials. Through first-person accounts and fieldwork, Braziel constructs an urban ecological framework for understanding these sculptures amid environmental degradation and grinding poverty. Above all, Braziel presents Haitian artists who live on the most challenged Caribbean island, yet who thrive as creators reinventing refuse as art and resisting the abjection of their circumstances.
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Postindustrialization, Grand Rue Galerie, Reflections in Surplus, Bricolage, Global Nomad Group, Modernity, creators, Lwas, Ronald “Cheby” Bazile, Jürgen Habermas, David Harvey, André Eugène, Gilles Deleuze, urban ecological framework, Judith Butler, Michael Hardt, United States Agency for International Development, TeleGhetto, postmodernism, Performativity, Adrian Parr, International aid, Walter Benjamin, Faux-dou, Haitian Revolution, Cité Soleil, Commonwealth, contre-biennale, sculptures, Lakou, Urbanization, Creative productions, Lionel St. Eloi, Angel of Progress, Jean Hérard Celeur, Atis Rezistans, Diasporas, Arjun Appadurai, USAID, Folklore, performative politics, Altermodernity, Bodies that Matter, Urban-art installations, recycled materials, Henri Lefebvre, The Production of Space, poverty, Grand Rue, sculptors, postprimitivist altermodern, Haitian artists, machinic urbanism, Ghetto TV, Haiti, Pétionville, Modernity at Large, Art and Architecture, Ghetto Biennale, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Champ de Mars, Caribbeean Studies, Folk Art, Jamaica