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Suriname: Welcome to the Jungle

Janine Mendes-Franco — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:37:21 +0000

For Paramaribo SPAN, Christopher Cozier visits artist Daniel Djojoatmo, whose work “discuss[es] the predicament of certain narratives of development which are, at their inception, ill-fated and at the disposal of the jungle.”

Dominica: Fruit Cake

Janine Mendes-Franco — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:02:26 +0000

Dominica's Gourmet Global is getting ready for fruit cake season and posts a mouth-watering recipe!

Suriname: Personal History

Janine Mendes-Franco — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:04:18 +0000

For Paramaribo SPAN, Chris Cozier visits Dhiradj Ramsamoedj’s home to view the artist's Adji (which means ‘maternal grandmother') Gilas cups and notes: “This is a very personal navigation of his experience — his own memory and relationship to family and place. This processing and reconfiguring defines the current moment in which many contemporary Surinamese artists are proceeding.”

Suriname: Experiencing Suriname

Janine Mendes-Franco — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:52:50 +0000

Paramaribo SPAN features the work of video artist Maartje Jaquet, who documents her time in Suriname via a Flickr photoset.

Suriname: Tattoo Art

Janine Mendes-Franco — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:42:32 +0000

Paramaribo SPAN pays a visit to artist Pierre Bong A Jan, whose work “sets up a creative dialogue between…painting and tattoos, at a meeting-point of conventional ‘fine' art and bodily adornment, folklore and science fiction, international youth culture and personal self-expression.”

Suriname: Photographic Art

Janine Mendes-Franco — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:09:00 +0000

Paramaribo SPAN shines the spotlight on Dutch artist Risk Hazekamp, who shares her thoughts on thoughts “on one of the works inspired by her residency in Suriname in 2008.”

Suriname: R.I.P. Henk Tjon

Nicholas Laughlin — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:50:10 +0000

Celebrated Surinamese playwright and theatre director Henk Tjon died in Paramaribo on 18 September, 2009. The Bahamas-based Ringplay Productions blog remembers “his passion and his eloquence on the subject of the role of the arts in Caribbean society.”

Suriname: a vist to Marienburg

Nicholas Laughlin — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:21:40 +0000

Flickr user SOG P posts a series of images documenting a visit to a former sugar factory in Marienburg, Suriname.

Suriname: Invisible Men

Nicholas Laughlin — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:01:17 +0000

Paramaribo SPAN posts images and text from Invisible Men, a new book by Surinamese artist Patricia Kaersenhout.

Suriname: a word for freedom

Nicholas Laughlin — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:23:18 +0000

“It’s hard for me to imagine a language or dialect without a word for ‘freedom'”: Jamaican litblogger Geoffrey Philp reviews a new documentary film about the Surinamese poet Trefossa.

Suriname: On “Someni Tongo”

Janine Mendes-Franco — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:46:37 +0000

“I think art is exactly and only about this: the need to create and express what is uniquely inside you, and to do so because you have no choice”: Chandra van Binnendijk, guest blogging at Paramaribo SPAN, shares her impressions of Dutch artist Arnold Schalks's Someni Tongo project, “which examined Suriname's cultural and linguistic diversity through a live performance of a celebrated poem.”

Caribbean: Climate Change Concerns

Janine Mendes-Franco — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:12:55 +0000

The threat of rising sea levels is of concern to CARICOM [the 15-nation Caribbean community]. Repeating Islands explains.

Suriname: Photo-Op

Janine Mendes-Franco — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:12:18 +0000

Paramaribo SPAN features the photography of Reshma Kirpalani who, upon her return to Suriname, intends “to explore this country just as it exists, at this point in time: on the eve of an election year, on the brink of progress, in the ebb and flow of inevitability.”

Suriname: Interesting Art

Janine Mendes-Franco — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:07:57 +0000

“On the one hand, her work demonstrates a strong ecological consciousness. On the other, it seems to grapple with various cultural discomforts and shocks”: Paramaibo SPAN pays a visit to artist Ellen Ligteringen's studio.

Suriname: W.I. Identity

Janine Mendes-Franco — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:59:23 +0000

Trinidadian Nicholas Laughlin discovers unexpected proof of Suriname's Caribbean connections - through “clothing and fashion as a badge of social identity.”