Showing posts with label trinidad. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trinidad. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Download the e-Catalogue for the exhibition "Common Room"


Put this together to share my recent exhibition in Johannesburg with you.

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Saturday, October 22, 2011

Tr.




In Port of Spain and in the towns going east, and around, the only information we share publicly and is given for free and is made part of our visual environment is advertising and religious material.

Messages are personally, individually given to people occasionally during advertising 'activations' by private companies and daily by people of various faiths through the use of 'tracts' - small, pamphlet-type informational things intended to share ideas - handed out around town in places with a lot of pedestrian Tr.affic.

To introduce and share another kind of information with the people walking around town I made some tracts and with the help of some friends, distributed them in Woodford Square yesterday afternoon.

This first set of Tr.acts - three different ones, each printed on its own colour fluorescent paper - shares ideas from thinkers and writers from all over the world and from different periods over the last few centuries, basically about what it means to be human and about living. The information is 'quotes' from these thinkers and writers but carefully translated from their original forms, which feel foreign to me or like they require Tr.anslation before I can relate the ideas in them to my life in Tr.inindad, into trini dialect.

I did this with Kwasi Shade and Brianna McCarthy volunteering their time and attention to help share, and, to keep it short, we got into all kinds of discussions with people from all walks, everybody passionately sharing their own Tr.uths and talking about these fellas' ideas, which was really valuable. Together we shared about three hundred pieces.

I'm posting some related images below and also making the Tr.acts available as downloadable pdf's for you - laid out, ready to print and photocopy, 3-up on a letter size page with crop marks so you can easily produce and share them too.

I will do this again with new Tr.acts in the future, probably around February. This weekend I'm leaving for a three month residency in South Africa. This action was a really beautiful note to leave on.

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Download: TR.ACT 1 (Tzu, Kaufman, Dostoyevsky) || TR.ACT 2 (Boyd, Eco, Rochefoucauld) || TR.ACT 3 (Fromm, Levi, Frankl)

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Saturday, September 17, 2011

Mordern Range _ 02
























Sisters & Brothers, download the digital version of Mordern Range #2 here or claim your free physical copy by sending a self addressed stamped envelope to this address:

Rodell Warner
P.O. Box 1501
92A Wrightson Road, P.O.S
Trinidad, W.I

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& if u missed it, here's digital Mordern Range #1. More to come, once we alive

Strenk & Powers?
One is one.

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Mordern Range is a not-no-random mash-up via Trini visual culture? A small collection of captured sights and found & copied images.

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Monday, August 8, 2011
























something ive been thinking about for some time, and looking for the right way to make it look. this is what i thought it should look like last year. big thanx to melissa doughty.

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Homeless PPL


Hot topic.

good excuse to show you this thing i made a couple years ago


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and Darryn Boodan's open letter to Mayor Louis Lee Sing on the subject.

If yuh lookin to go homeless, don't do it in Trinidad. Yuh gets no love.

Saturday, July 24, 2010

Cc: Everybody



Hello.

This is a project by Brianna McCarthy and myself - our first collaborative work :]

The texts in the signs we made are copied from actual classified ads and the title of each piece is name of the local newspaper the ad was found in and the date of publication.

We've been working on this for months now and since the nature of the content of some of the pieces fit right in with Erotic Art Week's intention of opening discussion around sex and sexuality in Trinidad, we're exhibiting the first wave of signs at EAW2010.

Cc: Everybody is installed at Studio (on the corner of Ariapita Avenue and Luis Street (pictured below)) and at Brooklyn Bar (corner Roberts and Carlos streets, woodbrook (images to follow)). Pieces are being offered for sale and will be on show for all of Erotic Art Week, 21-31 July, 2010.

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Cc: Everybody

Classified, Confidential - Everybody

Cc: Everybody explores the notion of privacy in the public domain. The project engages two common local media: the personals that appear in the national newspapers and a form of guerrilla street advertising developed locally to promote public parties. The publication of these, sometimes explicit, personal ads in the national domain may be considered surprising, given the context of a conservative, post-colonial island community. Cc: Everybody captures these private bits of black and white content and reproduces them, verbatim, in a most public and colourful medium. Cc:Everybody presents and interrelates this contemporary dichotomy as erotic art.

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Brianna McCarthy & Rodell Warner - Cc Everybody - Trinidad Guardian Classifieds - 8th February, 2010 (No. 5)
Brianna McCarthy & Rodell Warner - Cc: Everybody
Trinidad Guardian Classifieds - 8th February, 2010 (No. 5)


Brianna McCarthy & Rodell Warner - Cc Everybody - Sunday Express Classifieds - 24th January, 2010
Brianna McCarthy & Rodell Warner - Cc: Everybody
Sunday Express Classifieds - 24th January, 2010


Brianna McCarthy & Rodell Warner - Cc Everybody - Trinidad Guardian Classifieds - 8th February, 2010 (No. 3)
Brianna McCarthy & Rodell Warner - Cc: Everybody
Trinidad Guardian Classifieds - 8th February, 2010 (No. 3)


Brianna McCarthy & Rodell Warner - Cc Everybody - Installation View at Studio on Ariapita Avenue Port of Spain - IMG_3
Brianna McCarthy & Rodell Warner - Cc: Everybody
Installation View at Studio on Ariapita Avenue Port of Spain - IMG_3


Brianna McCarthy & Rodell Warner - Cc Everybody - Installation View at Studio on Ariapita Avenue Port of Spain - IMG_2
Brianna McCarthy & Rodell Warner - Cc: Everybody
Installation View at Studio on Ariapita Avenue Port of Spain - IMG_2


More photos of the work; finished, in progress and installed; can be viewed in this flickr set and will be added in the coming days.

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-Rodell.

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Shooting Kromatiq


hey.

these are some pictures of the dance crew 'kromatiq' that we shot on saturday. they're promoting an event called 'kromatiq sneaks out' thats coming up on july 3rd at the lure so these pics'll be used to promote that and the group in general too.

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and these are from last december. there were less members in the group then.:

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both shoots were fun. something different for me and the girls are rel cool. you can check out kromatiq on facebook. they're really very talented.

Monday, May 10, 2010

Cozier & Trinidad



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ey. hello. check this out

these are some pictures of christopher cozier that we made a few weeks ago on a sunday morning.

basically chris needed a more recent photo to use for different things he has coming up - the one he's been using was shot by jeffery chock quite a few years ago.

what i wanted was to try and make something that caught something of chris' personality and, after reading in this article something about him being 'emphatically out of exile', i thought it was fitting to try and make the environment in the photo obviously trinidadian - the hills and trees, the gigantic green parlour doors. to have that quality that old pictures get. the way they let u know 'this is what it looked like then'.

further to that, i think once the sun started coming up and we really got to talking about trinidad, and the way things are and the way things were, it seemed completely the thing to do to capture harsh, dry brown of the hills as some kind of metaphor. 'this is what it looked like then' but also maybe 'the grass is always greener..'

so this is what we caught. one of these (the one with the cat) was published in last thursday's newsday accompanying an article entitled "cozier named official artist of film festival". you can read the full article here. there are also a few others in this flickr set.

take care.

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Monday, January 12, 2009

Map of Woodford Square - Completed


hello!

i finally finished the woodford map. really happy with the way it turned out and i got some cool detail shots of it. superdocumented.

im grateful to DAVE Williams for recommending me for the job, giving me a chance to work on something cool!
and to RICHARD Rawlins for phototaking while i was working on putting it together last week.

i.aint.neva.had.no.real.life.studio.shots.befo':]



so yea.

i'm just gna post a couple photos of it and what i wrote on the description for the flickr set and be on my way.


do enjoy the photos, friend.

as always, click photos to enlarge.

Working

Map Of Woodford Square - Final

Map of Woodford Square - Detail 9

Woodford Square Map Detail

Woodford Square Map Detail 3


Late last year, i was asked by a friend to produce a piece of work for someone he knew that was leaving the country. I could do anything i wanted, the only stipulation being that the piece had to have something to do with Trinidad.

At the time i was sketching the pathways and trees and obstacles in woodford square for an unrelated project that really required no more than sketches and the commission seemed like a great opportunity to do an actual map of the square. The square is of great historical importance and it seemed a fitting subject for a souvenir of sorts.

The images in this set are of the sketches, drawings and final piece. I'm really happy with the way it turned out. I've never made anything like this before and i feel like my recent devotion to experimenting and being less anal about making work in any one way is leading me in the right direction.

For the piece i used cut pieces of linen board, acrylics and ink. The type in the header is of my own design and all buildings and references are accurate representations of the architecture styles and uses of the sites around the square.