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Labadee
URe:AD TV (United Re:Public of the African Diaspora Television)
Screening Room - Michigan Theater
Sat, Mar 24, 2018 2:45 PM
URe:AD TV is a transmedia “network” produced through a global open call for media and comprising fresh, contemporary audiovisual work by and for the African diaspora. Challenging the narrow, stereotypical, and banal aspects of both popular media and art-institutional framing of Black representation, URe:AD TV grows and changes with new submissions, producing new work with artists in the cities on its tour. Curated by Shani Peters and Sharita Towne.
Labadee is a short video documenting parts of a Royal Caribbean cruise trip in Labadee, Haiti, and the dynamics that unfold in this fenced off, privately-managed space. Text from the 1492 voyage diary of Christopher Columbus is entwined with a contemporary recount of the trip, meditating on exploitation, self-exploitation, performance, and access control created by the system of tourism in the Caribbean.
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