Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Experiencing the Art in a State of the Art Museum and Art Gallery

"What is currently the home of the National Museum and Art Gallery has, as a building, outgrown its walls and its floors. So we are looking to a state of the art building or system of buildings that can house what we are also trying to currently define as the National Collection... and to chronicle, document and interpret events and experience"

Experiencing the Art in State of the Art

Opening Remarks, Chair, National Museum and Art Gallery, Dr Kris Rampersad

EYE...HAYTI...CRIES...EVERYWHERE...

Symposium on the Exhibition by LeRoy Clark, May 19, National Academy for the Performing Arts, Port of Spain

Happy International Museum Day!
Thank you for that invocation for reminding us that we are a part of something larger that came before us and that we ourselves come from something larger in our ancestry.

It has been a distinct honour that one of the first acts of the new Board of the National Museum and Art Gallery (NMAG) was to host this phenomenal exhibition of Chief Ifa Oje Won Yomi Abiodun—Master Artist, Le Roy Clarke EYE...HAYTI...CRIES...EVERYWHERE...

The breadth and depth of artistic vision are as much in each individual piece as in the collective of some 105 drawings in black and white which encapsulate and exude the spirit, resilience and potential of the civilisation and people who inspire, even with their tears, in Clarke’s symbolic Hayti. That is the overpowering sense when you enter the art gallery - that Hayti is all around us, and we are in it! Everywhere. That is the singular power that this exhibition: EYE...HAYTI...CRIES...EVERYWHERE...exudes.

I hope you have all had the opportunity to not just view but experience the exhibition before coming here – and if you haven’t yet, it is still open at the National Museum and Art gallery for another month.

It is in this context that I invite you to listen to the presentations and participate in the discussions that will follow. We. You Me all of us are not isolated or insulated from all of it. We are very much a part, participant, player and protagonist as we are audience, recipient and receptacle. This is a symposium about everywhere, as much as it is about the here and the now, and the actual country, our neighbour Haiti, that inspire it.

As we speak, we are confronting the tragedies of humanity that bring us to despair, to tears. I do not have to list them. They are personal and they are national and they are universal. That you are here means you must feel some of it, and want to impact upon it. And it is that eternal resilience to search out, to quest and to question and in doing so to transcend that this exhibition also celebrates.

At a time when the arts is the first – the first – to feel the axe of funding cuts and budget and other adjustments, we are trying to make the National Museum and Art Gallery into a state of the art institution. But what is state of the art? Which art? Whose art? It is a phrase often used loosely without thinking of what it really means:

The standard definition of state of the art is: the most recent stage in the development of something incorporating the newest ideas and features. Newness, innovation, and technology feature in every definition, but what of history, heritage, legacy? What of art?

Where is the place for art in state of the art?

It is indeed a reflection that seems apt standing here in a building like this that houses the National Performance Art Academy. Is this state of the art? Isn’t that a discussion, a dialogue, we should have had a long time ago, and is somewhat long due: the conversation between the centuries old building next door, known as the Royal Victoria Institute and headquarters of the National Museum and Art Gallery, and this ultra modern state of the art one here? And isn’t there a dialogue and conversation that should be happening between our institution next door, and institutions like this one, the University of Trinidad and Tobago and the other one up the road, the University of the West Indies.

Where is the art in state of the art?

When we talk of a state of the art, we at the National Museum and Art Gallery envision an institution that is aptly fulfilling its role in all the dimensions and expectations such an institution is supposed to offer. It is a building yes – but it is not just a building. We are well aware that what is currently the home of the National Museum and Art Gallery has, as a building, outgrown its walls and its floors. So we are looking to a state of the art building or system of buildings that can house what we are also trying to currently define as the National Collection. And we hope that can be equipped with the latest technologies and equipment and devices that define the modern age.

But that would be nothing, a void, like the echoes that emanate from the cries within Clarke’s drawings, if we do not also fill that building/those buildings with events and occasions like these: to reflect, to interrogate, to elucidate, to educate on the state of the art, the state of our art, and the state that we are in as a people, the role of the State and the role of the people in the state of the art. We welcome partnerships in this so we can have more of these, more engagement, more interaction, more discussion, articulation, interrogation so we could better understand ourselves and this place we call our society, and our world.

It allows us an opportunity to remind ourselves, and others, of the role of the arts: to chronicle, document and interpret events and experience; to bring people closer together to understand each other: to promote cross cultural understanding because art reaches out from canvas and makes the looker-on, the onlooker – a participant. Isn’t that true of the exhibition next door? It encourages us to find creative solutions to challenging situations which we are here to do at this symposium.

To me, ultimately, art, all art, is not techniques and buildings and technology but experience. Through it an artist expresses an experience that he or she often cannot even fathom – his/her experience of an emotion or thought; and through it we participate in an experience that may be larger and inaccessible to us in our daily lives.

As we reflect on, discuss, debate, project and contemplate the artist’s work here, examine and scrutinise where it came from, what it has become, where it will go; where we have come from, what we have become, where are we going as a people, let us also reflect on the state of the art: The state of the art that a Museum and Art Gallery represents, should represent.

And I invite you to join us in helping to take it there. It is a cry, my cry, for all of us to recognise that perhaps we would not have so many tears if we had such an institution that could hold together all the fraying and flaying strands of our society and from its chaos create the kind of art we see in the exhibition: EYE...HAYTI...CRIES...EVERYWHERE...

I thank you for taking the time and effort to be a part of this; and the University of Trinidad and Tobago and the Ministry of National Diversity and Social Integration for partnering; Legacy House for inspiring us and I look forward to the presentations and your partnership and collaboration as we move forward towards better appreciation of the state of the art. We appreciate and welcome your understanding of this as a collective responsibility as we move to form alliances and partnerships that would help us fullfil the esoteric and exoteric place a museum assumes in the lives of citizens.

We invite you to join us in forging opportunities for our National Museum and Art Gallery to grow in stature as a place to explore and interrogate ourselves as much as it is to celebrate and transform the worst in and of us into the best of us, so that we too become state of the art.

I thank you.

Dr Kris Rampersad

Chair, National Museum and Art Gallery.

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Monday, May 18, 2015

ACP conference aims to boost media coverage of rural agri - Stabroek News

ACP conference aims to boost media coverage of rural agri

By Alva Solomon in Brussels, Belgium

Over 150 officials and journalists from African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries have gathered in Brussels, Belgium for a conference that aims to bridge the gap between agriculture development in rural areas and coverage of this sector by media.
The conference, which is being held under the theme ’The Role of the media in Agricultural and Rural Development of ACP countries’, commenced on Monday with a briefing session for participants at the European Commission building at the Borschette Centre in Brussels.

The gathering is part of the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) 25th anniversary celebrations and aims to bridge the gap between agriculture development in rural areas by reaching target audiences in ACP countries via the mainstream media. Participants hail from more than 40 ACP countries.

In his remarks at the opening briefing, Ian Barber of the European Union emphasized the importance of the media in the various democracies. He said that the media acts as a watchdog and gatekeeper, ensuring that presentations by democratic governments are important to all areas of governance.

Former CNN news anchor Tumi Makgabo (left) chats with Trinidadian media consultant Dr Krishendaye Rampersaud.

CTA director, Hansjorg Neun said that the media strengthens and collaborates within the confines of good governance. He stated that this year’s conference intends to provide answers to the question; “why do we only read about agricultural issues when there are natural disasters such as tsunamis, food crises, flooding”. Neun emphasized the need for the media to provide coverage to agricultural issues; its potential and success stories, noting that agriculture needs to be urgently boosted to feed some nine billion people worldwide by 2015.

According to the CTA head, while most governments and private entities are investing in agriculture, there is also a simultaneous need for such entities to invest in media and communication. He said that most media houses /journalists are not specialists where coverage of agricultural matters is concerned. In this light, he pointed out that the CTA has undertaken several strategies to ensure that key messages are conveyed on agricultural issues; making agriculture a better, more appealing theme where journalism is concerned.

Among the reasons highlighted for agriculture issues receiving little recognition within the mainstream media were poor infrastructure within media houses, lack of equipment, lack of education on agriculture activities on the part of journalists and poor output resulting out of the latter. Recommendations brought to the fore within the first session on Monday were the need for improved skills where journalists are concerned; improved relationships between government agencies and the media; as well as the recognition of the important roles technology plays within the field, the latter being highlighted as advanced in the Caribbean as compared to Africa and parts of the Pacific.

Trinidad and Tobago’s Dr Krishendaye Rampersad – one of several Caricom representatives attending the conference, stated that there is an urgent need for investment in training to develop the sector. She said that on the part of the agriculture sector, officials there should also think of how the agency can strengthen itself where media relations are concerned.

Ignatius Jean, the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) representative based in Guyana told participants that there have been moves to improve relations between the mainstream media and the agriculture sector within Caricom. According to the former St Lucia government minister, “we love and hate the media but we can’t live without them”. He noted that it is important for partnerships to be a part of the media/agriculture development relationship. The agriculture official said the media has a symbiotic relationship with democracy, noting that it plays a powerful role as an agent for change in some societies.

Among the points raised at Monday’s session, which was moderated in part by former CNN news anchor Tumi Makgabo and Trinidad’s Dr Eugenia Springer, were the communication strategies used by various players within the mainstream media; the need for skills development of journalists; and access to more readily available information. Gender issues regarding cultural or personal issues preventing women in some societies from playing a part was also discussed.

Most participants at the conference are from the African continent while the Caribbean is represented by media houses from Jamaica, Barbados, Belize, Suriname and Haiti. The Caricom Secretariat is also participating while Guyana is represented by Stabroek News and Prime News.
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Demokrissy: Wave a flag for a party rag...Choosing the Emperor's ...

Oct 20, 2013 Choosing the Emperor's New Troops. The dilemma of choice. Voting is supposed to be an exercise in thoughtful, studied choice. Local government is the foundation for good governance so even if one wants to reform the ... http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/

Old Casked Rum: The Emperor's New Tools#1 - Demokrissy - Blogger

Apr 07, 2013 Old Casked Rum: The Emperor's New Tools#1 - Towards Constitutional Reform in T&T. So we've had the rounds of consultations on Constitutional Reform? Are we any wiser? Do we have a sense of direction that will drive ...http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/

Demokrissy: Valuing Carnival The Emperor's New Tools#2

Apr 30, 2013 Valuing Carnival The Emperor's New Tools#2....http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
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Demokrissy: Winds of Political Change - Dawn of T&T's Arab Spring

Jul 30, 2013 Wherever these breezes have passed, they have left in their wake wide ranging social and political changes: one the one hand toppling long time leaders with rising decibels from previously suppressed peoples demanding a ...http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/

Demokrissy: Reform, Conform, Perform or None of the Above cross ...

Oct 25, 2013 Some 50 percent did not vote. The local government elections results lends further proof of the discussion began in Clash of Political Cultures: Cultural Diversity and Minority Politics in Trinidad and Tobago in Through The ...http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/

Demokrissy: Sounds of a party - a political party

Oct 14, 2013 They are announcing some political meeting or the other; and begging for my vote, and meh road still aint fix though I hear all parts getting box drains and thing, so I vex. So peeps, you know I am a sceptic so help me decide. http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/

Demokrissy: T&T Constitution the culprit | The Trinidad Guardian

Jun 15, 2010 T&T Constitution the culprit | The Trinidad Guardian · T&T Constitution the culprit | The Trinidad Guardian. Posted by Kris Rampersad at 8:20 AM · Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook ...http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
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Demokrissy: To vote, just how we party … Towards culturally ...

Apr 30, 2010 'How we vote is not how we party.' At 'all inclusive' fetes and other forums, we nod in inebriated wisdom to calypsonian David Rudder's elucidation of the paradoxical political vs. social realities of Trinidad and Tobago. http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/

Demokrissy: DEADLOCK: Sign of things to come

Oct 29, 2013 An indication that unless we devise innovative ways to address representation of our diversity, we will find ourselves in various forms of deadlock at the polls that throw us into a spiral of political tug of war albeit with not just ...http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/

Demokrissy: The human face of constitutional reform

Oct 16, 2013 Sheilah was clearly and sharply articulating the deficiencies in governmesaw her: a tinymite elderly woman, gracefully wrinkled, deeply over with concerns about political and institutional stagnation but brimming over with ... http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/

Demokrissy: Trini politics is d best

Oct 21, 2013 Ain't Trini politics d BEST! Nobody fighting because they lose. All parties claiming victory, all voting citizens won! That's what make we Carnival d best street party in the world. Everyone are winners because we all like ...http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/

New Media, New Civil Society, and Politics in a New Age - Demokrissy

Jan 09, 2012 New Media, New Civil Society, and Politics in a New Age | The Communication Initiative Network. New Media, New Civil Society, and Politics in a New Age | The Communication Initiative Network. Posted by Kris Rampersad ...http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/

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Old Casked Rum: The Emperor's New Tools#1 - Demokrissy - Blogger

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Old Casked Rum: The Emperor's New Tools#1 - Towards Constitutional Reform in T&T. So we've had the rounds of consultations on Constitutional Reform? Are we any wiser? Do we have a sense of direction that will drive ...

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Demokrissy: Valuing Carnival The Emperor's New Tools#2

Apr 30, 2013
Valuing Carnival The Emperor's New Tools#2.

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Wave a flag for a party rag...Choosing the Emperor's New ...

Oct 20, 2013
Choosing the Emperor's New Troops. The dilemma of choice. Voting is supposed to be an ... Old Casked Rum: The Emperor's New Tools#1 - Towards Constitutional Reform in T&T. Posted by Kris Rampersad at 10:36 AM ...

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Demokrissy: Carnivalising the Constitution People Power ...

Feb 26, 2014
This Demokrissy series, The Emperor's New Tools, continues and builds on the analysis of evolution in our governance, begun in the introduction to my book, Through the Political Glass Ceiling (2010): The Clash of Political ...

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Envisioning outside-the-island-box ... - Demokrissy - Blogger

Feb 10, 2014
This Demokrissy series, The Emperor's New Tools, continues and builds on the analysis of evolution in our governance, begun in the introduction to my book, Through the Political Glass Ceiling (2010): The Clash of Political ...

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Demokrissy: Futuring the Post-2015 UNESCO Agenda

Apr 22, 2014
It is placing increasing pressure for erasure of barriers of geography, age, ethnicity, gender, cultures and other sectoral interests, and in utilising the tools placed at our disposal to access our accumulate knowledge and technologies towards eroding these superficial barriers. In this context, we believe that the work of UNESCO remains significant and relevant and that UNESCO is indeed the institution best positioned to consolidate the ..... The Emperor's New Tools ...

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Demokrissy: Cutting edge journalism

Jun 15, 2010
The Emperor's New Tools. Loading... AddThis. Bookmark and Share. Loading... Follow by Email. About Me. My Photo · Kris Rampersad. Media, Cultural and Literary Consultant, Facilitator, Educator and Practitioner. View my ...

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