Dialogues in Caribbean Modernisms

Dialogues in Caribbean Modernisms

24 - 26 October 2024 / San Juan, Puerto Rico

Dialogues in Caribbean Modernisms was the second iteration of the Small Axe Caribbean Modernisms project. Held at the University of Puerto Rico and at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, it brought writers and visual artists of different generations into conversation with intellectuals and scholars to think about the impact of "modernism" (as style, as ethos, as value, as vocabulary, as infrastructure) on the arts across the regional and diasporic Caribbean.

The aim was to listen to these writers and artists and to hear the ways in which modernism, and issues related to it, shaped, or not, their creative practice.

Now are available the three-day event's talks, conversations, and round tables in this open repository, where there are, among other videos, the round table coorganized by our editorial assistant Dantaé Elliott, and Carmen Haydée Rivera, curator at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico.

Here, Marianne Ramírez Aponte, Marina Reyes Franco, Alejandra Rosa, Abdiel Segarra Ríos, Roberta Stoddart, Remy Jungerman, Mafalda Modestia, and Diógenes Ballester held a conversation in the second iteration of this project described by SX editor David Scott as an "attempt, in a different format, to use a more a kind of living exchange between artists and writers around the impact or relevance or usefulness, or not, of caribbean modernism."

Besides, the repository includes all the conversations held in the first two days of activities, with the participation of such scholars and writers as Mayra Santos Febres in conversation with SX managing editor Vanessa Pérez-Rosario, among many others who contributed with their outsanting work and ideas to this event.

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