iWitness Lunch Break at MMC

iWitness Lunch Break is a curated, multi-genre and multi-disciplinary creative and scholarly activation that uplifts the Global Borderless Caribbean in all its dimensions.

Join us for a conversation between artist Edouard Duval-Carrié and Professor Erica Moiah James (University of Miami) moderated by Dr. Rebecca Friedman (FIU Public Humanities Lab). The event will begin with a solo performance titled "Hip Hip Horray Dance Performance in T(h)ree” by FIU doctoral candidate A’Keitha Carey.

Lunch will be served.

Speakers:

Edouard Duval-Carrié is a contemporary artist and curator based in Miami, Florida. At heart, he is an educator— challenging the viewer to make meaning of dense iconography derived from Caribbean history, politics, and religion.

Dr. James is an art historian, curator, and Associate Professor at the University of Miami. Her scholarship centers on indigenous, modern, and contemporary art of the Caribbean Americas, and African Diaspora.

Dr. Rebecca Friedman is a Professor of History at FIU and the Founding Director of the Public Humanities Lab.

Performance:

Hip Hip Horray Dance Performance in T(h)ree centers Black women’s lived experiences and practices. This solo work by A’Keitha Carey explores 10 dimensions of Black female performance (including power, virtuosity, autonomy, play, the political, and freedom) that takes place in African Diasporic social gatherings such as Bahamian Junkanoo, Jamaican Dancehall and Trinidadian Carnival.

Partners

Haitian Cultural Arts Alliance

FIU Humanities Edge

FIU African and African Diaspora Studies

FIU Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center

Sponsor

Green Family Foundation

Host or Publisher FIU Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab