Transcommunality focuses on five collaborations that Laura Anderson Barbata has made across the Americas and presents them together for the first time. Though varying in process, tradition, and message – each of these collaborative projects emphasizes Anderson Barbata’s understanding of art as a system of shared practical actions that has the capacity to increase communication around topics of cultural diversity and to create sites of human connection or belonging.
Transcommunality offers a space to contemplate ritual, folklore and impact of the natural environment on culture. It equally centers oral histories and the interdisciplinary academic thought that shapes Anderson Barbata’s engaging creations.
Daniel Fuller reviews the intensive documentation of pain and survival found in A Brand New End: Survival and Its Pictures by Carmen Winant at the Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville.
Burnaway takes a close look at You Belong Here: Place, People, and Purpose in Latinx Photography, at the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami.