COLLABORATIONS
2010 Aids Chronicle
2010 Aids Chronicle
TBD ( To be Determined) in collaboration with ICP (The institute for Cultural Inquiry)
An ongoing and fundamental project of ICI, since 1992, is the AIDS Chronicles:
“The AIDS Chronicles are historical, statistical documents that record the discourse surrounding one of the defining events of our age: the AIDS pandemic. Each yearly volume consists of 365 front pages from the New York Times, collected over the year from 1 December to 30 November. These pages are treated on both sides with three layers of acrylic paint, producing blood-red sheets that leave visible only images or articles that mention AIDS or HIV, thus recording of the (lack of) day-to-day discourse on AIDS in one of the most read newspapers in the United States.
Periodically, these documents are displayed on December 1st, World AIDS Day, either on a pedestal or in an imposing grid arrangement, to allow members of the community to view the pages that mark a year of AIDS history. After each period of display, an artist is commissioned by the Institute to bind the pages and create an original cover for the annual volume before it is deposited in the ICI Library for permanent display. In years when the Chronicles are not displayed, associates, supporters and community volunteers come together on December 1st to paint the pages of these yearly tomes.”
ICI plans to carry out this project until there is a cure.
TBD ( To be Determined) in collaboration with ICP (The institute for Cultural Inquiry)
An ongoing and fundamental project of ICI, since 1992, is the AIDS Chronicles:
“The AIDS Chronicles are historical, statistical documents that record the discourse surrounding one of the defining events of our age: the AIDS pandemic. Each yearly volume consists of 365 front pages from the New York Times, collected over the year from 1 December to 30 November. These pages are treated on both sides with three layers of acrylic paint, producing blood-red sheets that leave visible only images or articles that mention AIDS or HIV, thus recording of the (lack of) day-to-day discourse on AIDS in one of the most read newspapers in the United States.
Periodically, these documents are displayed on December 1st, World AIDS Day, either on a pedestal or in an imposing grid arrangement, to allow members of the community to view the pages that mark a year of AIDS history. After each period of display, an artist is commissioned by the Institute to bind the pages and create an original cover for the annual volume before it is deposited in the ICI Library for permanent display. In years when the Chronicles are not displayed, associates, supporters and community volunteers come together on December 1st to paint the pages of these yearly tomes.”
ICI plans to carry out this project until there is a cure.
Skowhegan Tarot
Aim 97-Multi Media Porfolio project
With the 29 artists of the 1996-1997, Bronx Museum, Artist in the Marketplace program participants. Edition of 31.
Streetwise Harlem
This site specific collaborative project by two 1997 artists in residence, June Clark Greenberg and Vladimir Cybil Charlier, was a response to the then invisibility of the neighborhoods located north of 96th street in Manhattan on most maps. The name of the project itself comes from a popular tourist map brand, “Streetwise”.
Vladimir Cybil Charlier and June Clark Greenberg- Streetwise Harlem-1997-Mixed media installation at the Studio Museum of Harlem - 54’ x 8’ x 6’
Tourist Art
Exploring ideas of cultural authenticity and commercialization, Tourist Art is a fine artist book in the Haitian diaspora that tackles issues of high and low culture in art. Its production through print-on- demand technology underlines this concept. Combining original poetry, drawings and watercolors, Tourist Art addresses Haitian art, tourism, border relations, commercialization, and the global art market.
With a text by Gabrielle Civil and artwork by Vladimir Cybil Charlier, two Haitian diasporic artists, this book highlights multiple ironies: how Haitian tourist art is produced in Haiti, a place with virtually no tourism; how it is the shadow of a rich, Haitian fine art tradition collected around the world; and, how Haitian tourist souvenirs are exported and
sold in high volume, largely outside of Haiti itself.
"take the art tour.
to jacmel air stream to boston donkey
hoof to port-au-prince
shark
raft to montreal
cracked foot
to cap haitïen tap tap to brooklyn aux cayes dark limousine
visa
to miami shot to croix-des-bouquets
return
tracery of tourist art
itinerary en route"
“tourist art by haitians doesn't need haitians at all."
With a text by Gabrielle Civil and artwork by Vladimir Cybil Charlier, two Haitian diasporic artists, this book highlights multiple ironies: how Haitian tourist art is produced in Haiti, a place with virtually no tourism; how it is the shadow of a rich, Haitian fine art tradition collected around the world; and, how Haitian tourist souvenirs are exported and
sold in high volume, largely outside of Haiti itself.
"take the art tour.
to jacmel air stream to boston donkey
hoof to port-au-prince
shark
raft to montreal
cracked foot
to cap haitïen tap tap to brooklyn aux cayes dark limousine
visa
to miami shot to croix-des-bouquets
return
tracery of tourist art
itinerary en route"
“tourist art by haitians doesn't need haitians at all."
ArtQuake-2010
AQ/Art Quake is a group of internationally known artists who have contributed to a portfolio of contemporary prints available for collection. AQ/Art Quake honors Haiti’s history in artistic leadership and addresses the impacts of the January 12, 2010 earthquake on the nation’s visual art community.
From colonial portraiture, to metal sculptures, to sequined flags, and to cinema, the visual artists and artisans of Haiti and its diaspora have established a vibrant and lasting impact on the international art market. AQ/Art Quake is designed to raise awareness of the plight of Haitian visual artists and artisans who are suffering the dreadful consequences of the earthquake, and the current cholera epidemic. To provide both artistic inspiration and humanitarian support, net proceeds of each portfolio sale will go to Haitian artists and artisans living in Haiti, impacted by these recent devastating events.
Terry Boddie, V. Cybil Charlier, Aurora DeArmendi, Marlie Décopain
Scherezade Garcia, Klode Garoute, Rejin Leys, Alva Mooses, formerly known as Kathy Mooses, Juana Valdes, Didier William.
From colonial portraiture, to metal sculptures, to sequined flags, and to cinema, the visual artists and artisans of Haiti and its diaspora have established a vibrant and lasting impact on the international art market. AQ/Art Quake is designed to raise awareness of the plight of Haitian visual artists and artisans who are suffering the dreadful consequences of the earthquake, and the current cholera epidemic. To provide both artistic inspiration and humanitarian support, net proceeds of each portfolio sale will go to Haitian artists and artisans living in Haiti, impacted by these recent devastating events.
Terry Boddie, V. Cybil Charlier, Aurora DeArmendi, Marlie Décopain
Scherezade Garcia, Klode Garoute, Rejin Leys, Alva Mooses, formerly known as Kathy Mooses, Juana Valdes, Didier William.
The Politics of Paradise
“The Politics of Paradise” examines the marketing practices often associated with the colorful and fantastic work that has become associated with Caribbean art. By casting on the “local” art a tourist gaze, we are examining our own intricate relationship with the Haitian and Caribbean art market. While the use of the language of Pop Art seems point to the tawdry commercialization of the art industry points, by tediously hand painting bolts of canvases to be sold by the yard; and adorning rolls of paper towel with iconic “naïve” paintings and patterns of tropical vignettes we are pointing to the relationship of the art industry to inexpensive labor.) Similarly, echoing our own distaste toward many “third-world” countries current subservient political practices “1805 for $999.99” offers the first Haitian constitution in its entirety, overlapping the repeated images of the Haitian founding father that adorns the pastel-colored paper towel rolls. In contrast, “Peddler’s Romance” is an affirmative work that underscores the will to embody through memory the sense of our own social, cultural and historical experiences.
Vladimir Cybil Charlier and Andre D. Juste
Vladimir Cybil Charlier and Andre D. Juste
The Bountifull Series
Buy the Yard Series
Charmin Series
Superstition Porfolio with Arceo Press
(23 artists collaborative project)
(23 artists collaborative project)
“Papa Loko ou se ven, pote’m ale; ou se papiyon wa pote nouvel by Agwe…”
“Papa Loko, you are the wind, carry me; you are a butterfly and will bring news to
Agwe…” (Traditional)
A very large dark moth enters an old gingerbread house, at dusk, and lands near the ceiling. Long handled brooms are fetched to chase that “bad spirit” immediately from the house as, if they land upside down, bad news or death will sure follow…. From Mexico to the Caribbean and Latin America, a strong mythology follows the erebid moth ascalapha odorata. In Haiti, those “Papa Loko butterflies” are named after the powerful God of Healing of Dahomean and Taino origin.
I’m told that they are sometimes killed with salt, and flipped over so that the numbers that are a sure win at the national lottery can be deciphered on their wings…
“Papa Loko, you are the wind, carry me; you are a butterfly and will bring news to
Agwe…” (Traditional)
A very large dark moth enters an old gingerbread house, at dusk, and lands near the ceiling. Long handled brooms are fetched to chase that “bad spirit” immediately from the house as, if they land upside down, bad news or death will sure follow…. From Mexico to the Caribbean and Latin America, a strong mythology follows the erebid moth ascalapha odorata. In Haiti, those “Papa Loko butterflies” are named after the powerful God of Healing of Dahomean and Taino origin.
I’m told that they are sometimes killed with salt, and flipped over so that the numbers that are a sure win at the national lottery can be deciphered on their wings…
