Ebony G. Patterson Live Art Project
Celebrated Jamaican artist Ebony G. Patterson — whose work [pictured] is now on display at the Bermuda National Gallery — is offering Bermudians a chance to watch a live viral performance art installation this weekend on how dancehall culture shapes black male identities in that Caribbean nation.
The webcast based on her scholarly research on issues of gender and masculinity in the Jamaica’s dancehall culture will be made available to online audiences in Bermuda, Barbados, the Bahamas, Trinidad and Kentucky on Saturday [Mar. 10]. An associate professor of painting at the University of Kentucky, the artist is currently in Kingston preparing her “Cheap and Clean: Masculinities Interrogation Project” funded by Jamaica’s Rex Nettleford Fellowship in Cultural Studies.
“Cheap and Clean” is a viral performance art installation featuring 14 young Jamaicans modelling outfits based on their ideas and perceptions of masculinity.
Though “Cheap and Clean” is being executed in Kingston, the performance art installation will be made available to audiences in Bermuda, the Caribbean and Kentucky via an orchestrated event on Facebook.
The Bermuda National Gallery exhibition — entitled “Out & Bad” — is a component of the overall “Cheap and Clean” project and locals will be able to view this weekend’s art installation in real time through Facebook on Saturday at 4pm Bermuda time.
The viral viewing will be shown at the Bermuda National Gallery.
The Bermuda exhibition opened to the public on January 21, 2012 and runs through May 25.
Ebony G. Patterson was born in Kingston in 1981. She has taught in the Edna Manley College of Visual and Performing Arts, the Sam Fox College of Design & Visual at Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Virginia.
Ebony Patterson Discussing Her Dancehall-Inspired Art Project
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