Caribbean Contemporary Arts, Trinidad and Tobago

Due to production problems, the partnership between the CCA and the Prince Claus Fund was terminated. The planned exhibition and publication on the work of the 2001 Prince Claus Laureate Peter Minshall did not occur according to the terms stipulated in the contract. this created difficulties for the Fund in relation to the Kunsthal in Rotterdam and Hatje Cantz publishers in Germany. Therefore, the Prince Claus Fund decided to terminate the contract.

Caribbean Contemporary Arts was established in 1997 during a time of cultural and artistic fermentation, which yielded controversial views on the development of culture and cultural product. The organisation was formed out of a collective acknowledgement of the relative deficiency – both regionally and internationally – of accessible information on Caribbean arts and artists. At the core of its origin is a commitment to institutionalising a tradition for appreciating, preserving, and exhibiting the contemporary arts and cultural products emerging from the region today.

Caribbean Contemporary Arts is an international arts organisation that works with contemporary visual artists, curators, writers, historians and art educators from the Caribbean and the Caribbean Diaspora to exhibit, publish and document our region’s art practice, influences and ideas. Active regional meetings and digital networks are organized, as well as a series of accessible activities and publications that will bridge the fragmentation in the region.

 

Period

CCA, Network Partner from 29 October 2003 to 9 June 2006. they received 178.700 Euros for two and a half years.

 

 

Library at the Carribean Contemporary Arts centre

Detail from John Stollmeyer’s ‘Cairi’ at CCA

Contact

For information on the Network programme please contact Joumana El Zein J.elzein@princeclausfund.nl