Foregrounding street art in the capital cities of Cuba, Haiti, and Puerto Rico, this book argues that Antillean street artists diagnose the “impossible state” of the arrested present (colonized, occupied, or under dictatorship) while simultaneously imagining liberated futures and fully sovereign states.
Jana Evans Braziel launches a comparative study of art, politics, history, urban street cultures, engaged citizenships, and social transformations in three Antillean capital cities—Havana, Cuba; Port-au-Prince, Haiti; and San Juan, Puerto Rico—of the Greater Caribbean. The book includes a photo documentary archive of street art, murals, and installations by key muralists in these cities: Yulier Rodriguez Pérez, "Jerry" Rosembert Moïse, and Colectivo Moriviví (Chachi González Colón, Raysa Rodríguez García, and Salomé Cortés). Braziel offers art historical and geopolitical analyses of the urban street art in their cities of production, underscoring street art as political, economic, and environmental engagements (and not as exclusively aesthetic ones) with urban space and street life.
The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, Caribbean studies, Latin American studies, and urban studies.
Author(s): Jana Evans Braziel
Series: Routledge Research in Art and Politics
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 236
City: New York
Cover
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Living Streets: Calles Vivas: Lari Vivan
0.1 From Present “Impossible States” to Liberatory Futures?
0.1.1 “Impossible States”
0.1.2 Emancipatory Pasts: Liberatory Futures
0.2 Theorizing Caribbean Street Art—Archipelagic Or Hemispheric, Antillean Or Bolivarian
0.2.1 Archipelagic “Poetics of Relation”
0.2.2 Antillean “Politics of Aesthetics”
0.2.3 Island “Aesthetics” of Geography
0.3 Living Streets: Calles Vivas: Lari Vivan
0.3.1 Why These Cities?
0.3.2 Why These Artists?
0.3.3 Why Street Art?
0.4 Structure of the Book
Notes
Part Intermezzo: Havana
Archipelagic Wave 1
Tidalectic Wave 2
In the Wake
1 Murales as Testimonios: In the Streets of Havana
1.1 Arte Callejero: Historia Y Geopolítica (Street Art: History and Geopolitics)
1.2 Cuerpo Distorsionado Poli´tico (Distorted Body Politic)
1.2.1 Paradisio
1.2.1.1 Ángeles De La Desolación (Desolation Angels)
1.2.2 Purgatorio
1.2.2.1 Almas Devastadoras (Devastated Souls)
1.2.3 Inferno
1.2.3.1 Paso Inferior (Underpass)
1.3 Painting El Prado: Paredes Pintadas De Paseo
Notes
Part Intermezzo: Port-Au-Prince
Archipelagic Wave 1
Tidalectic Wave 2
In the Wake
2 Murales as Media: In the Streets of Port-Au-Prince
2.1 Atizay Lari: Istwa Ak Jeopolitik (Street Art: History and Geopolitics)
2.2 Pa Gen Jistis, Pa Gen Lapè: No Justice, No Peace
2.3 “Konstitisyon M Se Kinan'm”: Constitutional Claims to Political Rights in Haiti
2.4 Lavi Nwa Yo Enpotan: Black Lives Matter in Haiti
Notes
Part Intermezzo: San Juan
Archipelagic Wave 1
Tidalectic Wave 2
In the Wake
3 Murales as Mythos: In the Streets of San Juan
3.1 Arte Callejero: Historia Y Geopolítica (Street Art: History and Geopolitics)
3.2 ¿Dónde Está Borikén? Affective Island Ecologies and Arc’d Relations
3.3 Morí … (I Died …)
3.3.1 Santurce Es Ley 4 (SEL4)—2013
3.3.1.1 Agua (Water)
3.3.1.2 Corazón (Heart)
3.3.1.3 Mariposas Monarca
3.3.1.4 Cara Muerta (Dead Face)
3.4 Viví … (I Lived …)
3.4.1 Santurce Es Ley 5 (SEL5)—2014
3.4.1.1 Aire (Air)
3.4.1.2 Mariposas Monarca (Monarch Butterflies)
3.4.1.3 La Mimosa (Mimosa)
3.4.1.4 Océano (Ocean)
3.4.1.5 Isla Montañosa (Mountainous Island)
3.5 Origen: Tierra Y Mar (Origin: Earth and Sea)
3.5.1 Villa Colirubia, Culebra 2015
3.5.1.1 Calabaza (Pumpkin)
3.5.1.2 Mar (Sea)
3.5.1.3 Coral
3.5.1.4 Tierra (Land)
Notes
4 Digital Walls/Virtual Publics: Coronavirus Cities On Instagram
4.1 Digital Walls: Instagram Street Art
4.1.1 “Instafame”
4.1.2 Screen Lives: Street Lives
4.1.3 Digital Archives/Afterlives
4.1.4 Mediated Urban #StreetArt
4.1.5 Cybercities: The Online Urban
4.2 Caribbean Cybercities: Virtual Publics
4.2.1 #LaHabana
4.2.2 #Port-Au-Prince
4.2.3 #SanJuan
4.3 Jerry Rosembert Moïse’s COVID-19 Public Service Campaign in Belladère, Haiti
4.4 Colectivo Moriviví’s Public Service Campaigns
Artículo 25
Article 25
4.5 Yulier P.’s “Ciudad Corona”
4.5.1 From His Facebook Post
4.5.2 From His Instagram Post
Notes
Conclusion: Beyond “Impossible States”
C.1 Ebbing Tides
C.2 Crashing Waves
C.3 Beyond “Impossible States”
Notes
Bibliography
Index
