Comments on: Trinidad and Tobago: Online Art Networks

By: Richard Rawlins: Obsessed with Creating

Richard Rawlins: Obsessed with Creating — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 20:59:25 +0000

[...] that it is exciting. Nicholas Laughlin summed it all up in a brilliant article for Global Voices: “Trinidad and Tobago: Online Art Networks”. He called the scene an energetic and often anarchic art scene with no single centre or [...]

By: Adele Todd

Adele Todd — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 19:46:59 +0000

This in not about who thought of it first, this is not about Adele Todd, this is about the power of art which when untied can change a country

Post this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPCfxIllKso

Write how you truly feel over Crime in you country

Add this link: http://adeletodd.wordpress.com/

You know we have a thing together….no one needs to know. This is how the outside world sees us

Democracy, finally, rests on a higher power than Parliament. It rests on an informed and cultivated and alert public opinion. The Members of Parliament are only representatives of the citizens. They cannot represent apathy and indifference. They can play the part allotted to them only if they represent intelligence and public spiritness. -

-Dr. Eric Eustace Williams, Speech, First day of Trinidad and Tobago’s independence from Great Britain., August 31, 1962

By: Leigh Taylor

Leigh Taylor — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 02:34:20 +0000

nice to see more exposure all round. Will b egreat to have better training resources such as experienced teachers and proper equipment especially in the digital area.

By: Mark Franco

Mark Franco — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 20:58:22 +0000

It’s interesting to read Annie’s comment, in particular about Jamaica’s “dismal” art scene. We in Trinidad often comment about Jamaica’s rich public art expressions compared to our rather “poor” offerings.

By: Annie Paul

Annie Paul — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 03:28:25 +0000

Well, more power to the TnT artworld! clearly someone’s doing something right. wish you could bottle it and send it here coz the artscene here is pretty dismal. little evidence that this kind of experimentation is catching on in Jamaica.

If i could guess i would say that some of the credit must go to artists such as Steve Ouditt, Eddie Bowen, of course Chris Cozier, Susie Dayal and numerous others who have instrumental in exposing this younger generation to the contemporary impulse in art…