EN MAS' is one of the first publications to give serious scholarly
attention to contemporary art works considering carnival in the 21st
century, filling a gap in two decades of exhibitions of contemporary
Caribbean art that did not explicitly address carnival as an artistic
practice. A hybrid exhibition catalogue and academic reader with a
lively carnivalesque feel, it presents nine newly commissioned artist
projects by John Beadle, Charles Campbell, Christophe Chassol, Nicolás
Dumit Estévez, Marlon Griffith, Hew Locke, Ebony G. Patterson, Lorraine
O'Grady and Cauleen Smith. The book also includes a timeline of
diasporic pan-Caribbean carnivals, tracing the influence of Caribbean
carnivals and festivals on the theater, dance, and Broadway stages in
New York and London, in contemporary art galleries and biennials from
São Paulo to Havana to Gwangju, at the Olympics as well as in protest
and other movements.