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Issue 104 Summer 2008
THE BOMB BLAST
Maria Elena González’s sculptures describe a confrontation between architecture and memory—of built and remembered identity. Architect Carlos Brillembourg sat down with González to discuss her influences.
>>>Artistic, critic and curator Christopher Cozier has played a central role in the development of the Trinidadian art scene, challenging his colleagues and viewers to resist prescribed notions of Caribbean culture and nationality that he calls “islandness.”
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The work of Cuban artist Carlos Garaicoa has evolved from a utopian project for the future to a set of pieces with a more defined relationship to the discipline of architecture—one concerned with actual social and cultural problems in Cuba today.
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Cuban writer Antonio Benítez-Rojo is best known for his monumental study The Repeating Island: The Caribbean and the Postmodern Persepective. Author Robert Antoni and Benítez-Rojo discuss the true nature of cultural creolization.
>>>Since his first novel in 1960, Palace of the Peacock, Wilson Harris has helped change the landscape of literature. Classically trained, he has redefined the very nature of contemporary storytelling by going back to pre-Columbian myth and history.
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Zee Edgell, Belize’s principal contemporary author, embeds an entirely new strata of storytelling into Belize’s literary tradition. Her 1982 book Beka Lamb was the first novel written in a newly independent Belize to reach an international audience.
>>>Maraca’s technical proficiency as a flutist is complemented by his lightning-fast ear. Renowned in his native Cuba, Maraca earned his chops playing Cuban jazz with Chucho Valdés’s supergroup, Irakere, and composer Emiliano Salvador before he turned 23.
>>>Eddie Bobè is a master percussionist, vocalist, composer and arranger. His expertise extends across a full spectrum of Afro-Caribbean music and traditions. Fellow drummer Frank Marino speaks with Bobè about the force that Afro-Caribbean music is today.
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Haitian classical guitarist Frantz Casseus came to New York with the ambition to compose a distinct music, fusing the European classical tradition with Haitian folk elements.
>>>Born in Jamaica, Lorna Goodison has received international recognition and awards for her writing in both poetry and prose, including the Musgrave Gold Medal from Jamaica in 1999.
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