Urban Heartbeat - 27th of March

From left : Jim Avignon, Marie-Elena, Danielle Boodoo-Fortune and Dean Arlen

From Left : Raquel Vasquez and Alicia Milne 

Designs for the wall.

Alicia Milne on the P&E wall space

Jim Avignon pasting Jennifer Perez Rojas image 

Urban Heartbeat - 26th of March

Mr Kinne house, Deputy Head of Mission and Counselor of the German Embassy.

Britta Salecker 

Jim Avignon 

From Left : Holger Bier, Anthony Inglifield, Salome Bu and Marie-Elena Joseph

Alicia Zamora

Show&Tell –Urban Heartbeat

"Urban Heartbeat – An artistic encounter in public spaces” has been initiated by the Goethe Institut in Mexico City and is touring Mexico, Latin America and the Caribbean."

"To celebrate the wrap up of the tour dates and contest, a special Show & Tell Urban Heartbeat will be hosted to showcase the winners, together with contemporary German artist Jim Avignon who will talk about the Urban Heartbeat project."


Thursday, 29 March, 7 pm at the East Wall of the Grand Stand (Queen’s Park Savannah), POS. Limited parking will be available in the Paddock of the Grand Stands. There will be signs to guide patrons to the parking and the actual venue. 


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Who am I? - I am the more

Who am I? - answer

I am the more . In essence... I am more than anything you can call me or any word you can describe me as.

I am more than a student, a coworker, a mother, daughter, lover or friend . No list of words can ever encompass all that I am was or will be so I will forever be the more.

To view the complete series of pictures click: Who am I? images

Who am I? - Interaction

Interaction with people.
Is interesting how people influence each other. Not only to participate but in their answers to who they think they are. People influence, push or just the fact of pressure will make them do or not do something. If the majority laughs means I should not be part of this, but if one gives in, some people start rethinking if they should be part. Is it impossible to take decisions without being influenced? is it possible to just "be me"?

Interacciones con personas:
Es interesante como personas tiene influencias sobre otras.No solo como influencian a otros a participar sino  la influencia que ejercen sobre la respuesta a "quien soy yo?". La gente influencia, empuja o el simple factor de presión hace que hagan o no hagan algo. Si la mayoría se ríe significa que no debería ser parte de esto, pero si una persona piensa lo contrario, comienza un proceso de repensar si realmente debería hacerlo. Sera posible toma decisiones sin ser influenciado por agentes exteriores? sera posible solo "ser yo"?

To view the complete series of pictures click: Who am I? images

Who am I? - Illustrations

On the papers for two different things

Postal Art Trinidad 2012

 

De mi barrio a tu barrio -Urban Hearbeat.

 

Trinidad+Tobago Guardian

Trinidad+Tobago  Newsday

De mi barrio a tu barrio - Urban Heartbeat

The Artist - missing two - from left to right Bottom: Jennifer Perez Rojas ,Kriston Banfield. Middle: Maria Elena Joseph, Luis Vasquez La Roche, Dean Arlen and Danielle Boodoo-Fortune. Top: Raquel Vasquez La Roche.


missing Artist: Alicia Milne and Brianna McCarthy.

For more De mi barrio a tu barrio (spanish)
               Urban Heartbeat (English)

In the Castle of Our Skins: Who Am I?

Creative Commess by Soy Forde

I’m really, really thrilled to have Luis Vasquez La Roche join the conversations inside the castle of our skins. His work surrounding questions of identity, nationhood, and the self is exciting and it interrogates what it means to “be” in ways that offer no one pathway or one single reckoning but a beautiful and interesting examination of the complexities inside these various spaces that I think we can all relate to. According to his statement:

My project came through my recent body of work called the search, in which I deal with identity, cultural and some other issues pertaining to belonging within a certain space. I started using teeth because it is a way in which a person can be definitively recognized, apart from DNA, or finger prints. So when I use the word “recognize”,  I don’t only refer to your identity by name. Because names, at the end of the day, are just names. Just like everything else has a name to be recognized. What I really was trying to do was consider whether I can pin point who I really was in essence, which I found difficult because I am not one thing but many.
All this came about as I got to Trinidad and all these issues of identity came about.  My race was questioned (I was no longer considered black, which for years, I thought I was),  so I started looking for something inside of me that I can feel comfortable with using to claim and identify who I am.  In having conversations with another artist called Nikolai Noel, he explained to me that in a certain way, everyone has a way how they see themselves and is not necessarily related to race or gender; they use many other ways to describe themselves: personality, career, emotions, nationality, religion — whatever makes everyone comfortable and at ease.
The answer always comes with the context you’re in. So, what if there is no context (there will always be one), what then, will your answer will be? What is that thing that will describe you? So I drew probably 15 or more dentures (same type of denture, different surroundings) and made people take one and tell me what one thing they think they are.

Project: Who am I?

Most of us construct definitions for ourselves in order to justify our existence in within the space. We use terms related to our careers, family, personality, nationality, race and many more. Is probably impossible to describe yourself in one sentence but from all the possible words that can describe a person, which one do you think describes you best?