Alfalfa Studio was asked to design a book featuring the work of Laura Anderson Barbata, a multidisciplinary artist who works in conjunction with traditional stilt dancers from the West Indies, Brooklyn and Mexico, as well as three essays and an illustrated chronology that place her work in context.

 

Transcommunality examines the beginning of the project in Trinidad and Tobago, and highlights the way Anderson Barbata has integrated into her work The Brooklyn Jumbies, a group of stilt dancers from the West Indies and West Africa living in Brooklyn, New York and more recently collaborating with Los Zancudos de Zaachila from Oaxaca, Mexico. By uniting these two living traditions and working alongside them, Anderson Barbata bridges continents, cultures and communities creating astonishing work that melds contemporary art and cultural heritage practices.

 

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