2005 | Canada, Trinidad & Tobago | Installation

Uncomfortable: The Art of Christopher Cozier

  • English - 48 mins
  • Director | Richard Fung
  • Writer | Richard Fung
  • Producer | -

STATUS: Released

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Uncomfortable journeys through the work and ideas of Christopher Cozier, a leading contemporary artist in the Caribbean. The video presents Cozier's witty and incisive drawings, installations and videos in the context of post-independence Trinidad with its oil-rich economy, complicated ethnic politics, and vibrant cultural forms. Treated in this video are the failure of McDonald's to take root (while other fast-food chains proliferate); an art market that validates only pretty pictures of flowers and beaches, while the country is obsessed with kidnappings and murders; and the systemic difficulties of a Third World artist circulating internationally. It illuminates the relationship between the local and the global.

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