Fannie and Alan Leslie Center for the Humanities at Dartmouth College

Christopher Cozier, Trinidad - "it now have kaiso in it"

Christopher Cozier, Artist in Residence at Dartmouth College will present the conclusion to the Humanities Institute Conference - No Laughing Matter: Visual Humor in Ideas of Race, Nationality and Ethnicity. Joining him will be fellow Trinidadian David Rudder, calypsonian, vocalist, and musical composer.

Cozier is an artist and writer living and working in Trinidad. He has participated in a number of exhibitions focused upon contemporary art in the Caribbean and internationally. Since 1989 he has published a range of essays on related issues in a number of catalogues and journals. He is on the editorial collective of Small Axe, A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, published and distributed by the Indiana University Press. He has been an editorial adviser to BOMB Magazine for their Americas issues (Winters, 2003 ­ 2005) and was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2004. Cozier has taught at various institutions and works in collaboration with a number of younger developing artists, designers and illustrators. His work has consisted of multimedia projects, involving sound, video, live performances and installations, including drawings, constructions and appropriated objects. The artist's works are in a number of collections both private and corporate in the USA, Europe, and Africa and in the Caribbean. The artist is currently working on a series of drawings entitled "tropical night" - an ongoing investigation of personal vocabulary, working drawings or notations for public projects to be implemented, in the coming months.

Photo portrait courtesy of Jeoffrey Chock.