How to Build a House on Stilts
Kwesi Abbensetts and Andrew Lyght on how their work invokes Guyana’s architectural landscape.

Event: Wednesday, August 23, 2017
Liminal Space artists Kwesi Abbensetts and Andrew Lyght will join curator Grace Aneiza Ali in a conversation on how their work invokes Guyana’s architectural landscape. Both artists reference the stick-frame wooden houses on stilts that are quintessential to the visual identity of Guyana. In this conversation, they will share how they are inspired to use these structures as symbols in their work, how these houses on stilts serve as remnants of colonial and postcolonial power in Guyana, as well as how as architectural artefacts, they stand the passage of time.
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