Andil Gosine : Coolie Coolie viens / curator: Matthew Ryan Smith ; artist: Andil Gosine ; writers: Marsha Pearce [and 13 others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gosine, Andil, 1973- artist, author.

Pearce, Marsha, author.

Contributor:

Smith, Matthew Ryan, 1983- writer of introduction.

Glenhyrst Art Gallery of Brant (Brantford, Ont.), host institution.

Singh Family Fund.

McIntosh Art Gallery, host institution, publisher.

Indo-Caribbean Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Postcolonialism.

Caribbean Area.

Gosine, Andil, 1973---Exhibitions.

Gosine, Andil.

Installations (Art)--Exhibitions.

Installations (Art).

Postcolonialism--Caribbean Area.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

107 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Coolie Coolie viens

Place of Publication:

London, Ontario : McIntosh Gallery, Western University, [2018]

Language Note:

Includes some essays in French.

Summary:

"In Coolie Coolie Viens, Andil Gosine presents an autoethnographic study of life after the end of indentureship. Indentureship is the colonial system of labour that brought Indians and other peoples from South Asia to the Caribbean, effectively replacing slave labour on plantations. Here, Gosine interrogates the legacy of indentureship and its social and political effects on Indo-Caribbean communities. He believes that indentureship has transformed the lives of its descendants through intergenerational trauma, impacting upon their most intimate experiences. Gosine considers these conditions and turns inward to scrutinize his personal history, tracing the ways in which historical and contemporary negotiations of one's humanness and animality have been wrapped up in narratives of race, gender and class, always underpinned by anxieties surrounding sex. Gosine considers the differences between pleasure and violence in the places he has lived: a rural village in the Caribbean island of Trinidad, Southern Ontario cities such as Oshawa and Toronto, the British beach town of Brighton, and the metropolitan centres of Paris and New York. Throughout this, Gosine suggests that his experience of the simultaneity of pleasure with violence is a direct aftermath of colonialism."--Publisher's website.

Contents:

Acknowledgments / James Patten

Introduction / Matthew Ryan Smith

Chanting down indenture / Marsha Pearce

Andil Gosine, la coolitude des eaux noires aux mers de canne / Khal Torabully

Works: Cane portraiture - Marina Carter; Cane portraiture - Gaiutra Bahadur; Coolie colours - Richard Fung; Coolie music - Jane Clinton; Cutlass - Joy Mahabir; Gods of Jamaica Bay - Chantal Persad; Hoodie - Jillian Olivierre; Le bebe Krishna Bleu - Andrew Bagoo; (Made in love) - Nalini Mohabir; Natures: a guerilla story - Alexandre Tharaud; Parisien - Lisa Outar; 1, 2 - Jon Davies; Animal: an epilogue, a prologue - Andil Gosine

Artist biography.

Notes:

Includes a prologue by the artist.

Limited edition of 500 copies.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Glenhyrst Art Gallery, March 25 to May 21, 2017 and the McIntosh Gallery from November 8, 2018 to January 12, 2019.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Singh Family Fund.

ISBN:

9780771431142

0771431147

OCLC:

1081307519