This seminar focuses on African art, ritual, and performance issues developed within and circulated around the Afro-Atlantic, from West Africa to the Americas, particularly the U.S. South, Brazil, Cuba, Haiti, and the broader Caribbean. The course will explore the traditional arts and ideas deployed across the Atlantic during the Afro-Atlantic slave trade as a point of departure, and subsequent eras, up to and including the innovations of the contemporary moment. Modes of performativity intersected with issues of gender construction, feminisms, globalisms, border-discourses and ecological concerns will be central to the line of inquiry. Artists from the seminal exhibitions, Infinite Island: Contemporary Caribbean Art (Brooklyn Museum, 2007), Caribbean Art at the Crossroads of the World (El Museo del Barrio, 2012) and Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago (Wallach Gallery, Columbia University, 2018), among others, will be important to the analysis. 

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