Felandus Thames: Oops Upside Your Head
Artist's website: felandus.com
Five books recommended by Felandus Thames to accompany his exhibition "Oops Upside Your Head" in the Eli Marsh Gallery, October 23-December 15, 2023.
Heavy by Call Number: E185.97.L394 A3 2018
The Undercommons by Call Number: E185.86 .H336 2013
South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s by Call Number: N6538.N5 J668 2017
Just Us, An American Conversation by Call Number: PS3568.A572 A6 2020
Everything but the Burden by Call Number: E185.615 .E86 2003
nibia pastrana santiago: other islands originated in the ocean, but...
Artist's website: nibiapastrana.com
Five books recommended by nibia pastrana santiago to accompany her performance other islands originated in the ocean, but the island is also the origin, radical and absolute” —a borrowed phrase from Deleuze’s Desert Islands for this choreographic event (and yes, all of this is the title).
The performance is part of the Mead Museum Spring 2024 exhibition Trópico es Político: Caribbean Art Under the Visitor Economy Regime, curated by Marina Reyes Franco (Curator, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico).
Agua Viva by Call Number: PQ9697.L585 A7813
Digital Lethargy by Call Number: N72.T4 H8 2022
Affect, Archive, Archipelago by Call Number: JC327 .L583 2022 (UM copy; on order for AC)
Hacer historia: Reflexiones desde la práctica de la danza edited by Isabel de Naverán
“Discover Puerto Rico USA”: Propaganda, Culture and Country Brand, 1929-1941 by Hilda Blanch-Miranda (on order)
The Amherst College Library and Museum also highly recommend Inhabiting the Impossible: Dance and Experimentation in Puerto Rico, edited by nibia pastrana santiago and Susan Homar