MARK YUH WORK... from artzpubfilms

MARK YUH WORK... from artzpubfilms on Vimeo.

Mark Yuh Work is a short film from artzpub films
about the Trinidadian artist MANF.

Art MANF, narration , Tracy Hutchings, writer, director, producer Darryn Boodan, editor Tracy Hutchings, executive producer ARTZPUB FILMS, equipment FirsttFloor, transportation Sheldon G. Pierre, still photography MANF, Rodell Warner, original music Justin Lee

Special thanks to Rodell Warner, Dave Williams, Richard Rawlins, Indra Ramcharan, Mariel Brown, Alice Yard, Terry Smith, Indigroove, Draconian Switch & CMB Advertising

Made in Trinidad and Tobago
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DAVE WILLIAMS PERFORMS AT CHOGM OPENING, NOV.27th 2009

Dave Williams on Rodell Warner Losing your head in the Photobooth By Dave Williams

In my time in the “arts” in Trinidad & Tobago, I‘ve come to notice an interesting shift in the power and pursuits of artists. According to artist, Christopher Cozier, “artistic enterprise was about rendering or representing an inventory prescribed as Caribbean”. Consequently, artists produced works that were also intended to be inventory – made for sale. Today, however, in ‘e’ environment where the www has forever altered the transactive processes of the arts landscape, artistic practice has become more than just paints and canvas and exhibitions. Additionally, given the widely perceived shrinking of ambitions and voices of journalists, social scientists, teachers, priests, shrinks and operatives in every other social institution, artists are stepping in and filling the void.

read it all here
http://storage.smallaxe.net/wordpress/2009/11/09/dave-williams-on-rodell-warner/