Originally aired on November 3rd, 2020 is the Lockdown Virtual Salon with CATAPULT Grantee, Mariantonia Ordóñez (Puerto Rico), who will be speaking with Ian Bethell-Bennett (The Bahamas)!
Mariantonia Ordóñez studied Art in The University of Puerto Rico, La Liga de Arte, Escuela de Artes Plásticas and Casa Candina. Her work has been exhibited individually and collectively from the year 1980. She was a member of Asociación de Mujeres Artistas de Puerto Rico, has illustrated children’s books and taught Art in Casa Candina, La Liga de Arte and Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico. At the moment she works as an artist in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico.
About Ian Bethell-Bennett: Born in New Providence and raised around the colonial world, I am deeply connected to Caribbean spaces and agency as a peoples of migration, displacement and creole connectivity and creativity. I have worked with Caribbean islands, mainlands and identities repeating across time and space through Benitez-Rojo’s work as well as works of Edouard Glissant, Aime Cesaire in postcolonial studies to inform my understanding of colonialism in Caribbean experiences left after the end of direct colonial rule. I work through these themes in my photography, poetry, creative non-fiction and critical essays. My creative expression finds some home in the earlier works of theorists like Gloria Anzaldua, Zora Neale Hurston and Audre Lorde who challenge constructs of unbelonging and colonialism as they pertain to spatial displacement, occupation, sexuality, and identity formation. My creative, academic and critical work has focused on moving beyond time-bound understandings of space, agency, time and the limited agency of sexualised subjectivity.
Huge thanks to the CATAPULT Partners The American Friends of Jamaica, Kingston Creative and Fresh Milk for making this happen!
CATAPULT | A Caribbean Arts Grant is a COVID-19 relief programme conceptualised by Kingston Creative (Jamaica) and Fresh Milk (Barbados) and funded by the American Friends of Jamaica | The AFJ (USA). Designed as a capacity building initiative it will directly provide financial support to over 1,000 Caribbean artists, cultural practitioners and creative entrepreneurs impacted by the pandemic and working in the themes of culture, human rights, gender, LGBTQIA+, and climate justice.
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