The Visible City Project’s initial research trip to Havana was planned to coincide with the 9th Havana Biennial, Dynamics of Urban Culture. Professor Janine Marchessault and Professor Susan Lord (Queen’s University) presented at the Biennial’s theoretical event Forum Idea 2006, and the research team used the framework of the biennial, its various events and exhibitions, to support their preliminary exploration of artists and creative communities in Havana. We conducted a range of formal and informal interviews with individual artists, collectives and curators and documented a number of projects from Cuba and Latin America.
Janine Marchessault and a group of doctoral students (Shana MacDonald, Jason Rovito, and Nicholas Balaisis) attended the 2006 Havana Film Festival. They also helped to carry out numerous interviews with curators, artists and writers.
