摘要：This provocative collection on sustainable artscommunities in the Caribbean teaches us not onlyabout the ways in which knowledge is situated, as manyCaribbean theorists have posited, but also attemptsto situate artistic practices, institutions, and criticism– that is to say, the arts are seen as always engagedin complex, particular places rather than from animaginary utopia (or dystopia!) known as the global‘art world’. Thus, the question of the sustainability ofCaribbean arts pertains to a multitude of differentlylocated situations, specific places, distinct identities,and varied practices, some of which are in the region,some of which are in the diaspora, and some of whichare bridges in between. The essays in this volumeraise the problem of how these multi-located artscommunities (which are local, regional, national, andglobal simultaneously) may be sustained over time inall of their rich diversity, as a kind of complex culturalecosystem full of creative niches.
