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In Another Man’s Yard: John Beadle, Lavar Munroe, and the Spirit of (Posthumous) Collaboration
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The catalogue accompanying the Bahamas Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, 2026
John Beadle (1964-2024) and Lavar Munroe (1982-), deeply grounded in visual and social practices of The Bahamas and broader African diaspora, highlight themes of commemoration, collectivity, and collaboration. Beadle, who died in 2024, worked as part of a community of makers who collaboratively make costumes for the bi-annual Junkanoo masquerade, a centuries-old tradition. Junkanoo often formed the DNA of Beadle's studio art, particularly in his use of discarded materials like cardboard, the typically covered over and embellished inner structure of Junkanoo costumes. Munroe has similarly worked at the intersection of Junkanoo, as a member of a Junkanoo group, and contemporary art. Munroe has created elaborate sculptures made from strips of Junkanoo costumes that had been abandoned after being performed in the bi-annual parade. Beadle and Munroe share a focus on the hidden, the discarded, the thrown away, the undervalued, "the minor notes," in society—the migrant, the day laborer, the homeless. The publication explores too the idea of "posthumous collaboration," the process of collaborating with and commemorating the deceased through material traces of their art and labor. The volume, part of the Bahamas's Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, 2026, is edited by Krista Thompson and includes essays by Christian Campbell, Amanda Coulson, and Tandazani Dhlakama.
Extent: 112 pp
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 2027-04-26
Size: 25.0 x 25.0 cm
ISBN: 9788857255262
About the Author
Krista Thompson, art historian, is the Mary Jane Crowe Professor of Art History at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. Her writings and curatorial projects focus on modern and contemporary art and visual culture of the Africa diaspora and the Caribbean. She is the author of An Eye for the Tropics (2006) and Shine (2015), and co-curator (with Claire Tancons) of En Mas': Carnival and Performance Art of the Caribbean (2015).
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