Tag: Haiti
-
Haïti: Mountains Beyond Mountains
Restoration Liberation2019 Ghetto Biennial Katelyn Alexis + Getho Jean Baptiste + Wesner Bazile + Rossi Jacques Casimir + Noel Edgard aka Papouche + Lee Lee + Mimi Sheller + moira williams We are exploring historic connections between Maine and Haiti with a series of workshops and performances; looking at the entangled mobilities between plant-human and…
-
Sea Shanties and SEED Stories
Celebrating the new gardens designed and built by Lee Lee at the Pendleton House, the beds set the stage for a display of Haitian artworks and maritime paintings during first Blue Hill Maritime Heritage Festival. In consideration of the historic use of the building to house sailors who needed temporary housing between seafaring journeys, garden…
-
In Memorium: Jean-Claude Saintilus – Part 3 Activating the Shrine
2017 Ghetto Biennial – Cartographies The theme of Cartographies for the 2017 rendition of the Biennial was in sync with the networks of gardens from which we had both sourced and dispersed plants. I was very happy to reconnect with moira williams. We met during the 2013 biennial, and she became an unanticipated but essential…
-
In Memorium: Jean-Claude Saintilus – Part 2 Food Forests
Kreyol, Vodou & the Lakou – 2015 Ghetto Biennial For the 4th Ghetto Biennial, themed KREYÒL, VODOU and the LAKOU : forms of resistance, we started looking closely at plant relationships. We decided to kick off the project with a shared meal of Tchaka, a three-sisters porridge made of crushed corn, beans and heirloom squash…
-
In Memorium: Jean-Claude Saintilus – Part 1 Shared Meals
3rd Ghetto Biennial: De-centering the Market & Other Tales of Progress 2013 The first time I met Claude was in his garden, where he handed me a skull and through an interpreter asked if I’d ever held one before. I still had on my wool socks from a Denver winter, having been whisked off to…
VOICES 