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A Rafiki Art Initiatives podcast dedicated to uplifting and amplifying BIPOC voices in the art sphere across the Nordics.

12/04/2024

Seasons Closings

In this season finale session we join Rafiki once again in her studio to discuss fame, art as labour, the art in labour, the labour in art, and much more as we explore and tease out the stakes of RAI Sessions and spaces/platforms like Rafiki Art Initiatives. Thanks for joining us this season, and stay tuned for more!

50 min
11/28/2024

On the Art in and of Diaspora - Pt. II

In this second of a two-part session, Ro continues their session with Ayesha T. Jordan (https://www.ayeshajordan.com/) and Jelsen Lee Innocent (https://jelsenjelsenjelsen.com/) in their home in Oslo. Continue listening for a deep, yet fun and lighthearted, discussion about doing art while in diaspora, navigating the Norwegian art scene as U.S. Americans, and finding ways to build community, connect with the land, and stay grounded through it all. Please enjoy!

58 min
11/20/2024

On the Art in and of Diaspora - Pt. I

In this first of a two-part session, Ro meets with Ayesha T. Jordan (https://www.ayeshajordan.com/) and Jelsen Lee Innocent (https://jelsenjelsenjelsen.com/) in their home in Oslo for a deep, yet fun and lighthearted, discussion about doing art while in diaspora, navigating the Norwegian art scene as U.S. Americans, and finding ways to build community, connect with the land, and stay grounded through it all. Please enjoy, and tune back in next week for Part II!

1h 5m
11/13/2024

On Weaving Community

In this RAI Session we meet with Nkuli Mlangeni-Berg (https://www.theninevites.com/about), and explore her wonderful textile artistic practice, while weaving the threads between family, home, belonging, motherhood, and forging global community while navigating the Swedish and Nordic cultural sphere.

52 min
11/06/2024

On Power, Protest, and Place

This RAI session centres on the interrelationship of power, protest, and our places within these frames. We speak with the multigeneric artist, poet, and activist, Makda Embaie (https://www.instagram.com/makawayy/). Makda's poetic interrogations of time and space root those who experience and participate in her work in immense depth of engagement with the truths of relationship and political context.

46 min
10/30/2024

On Collaboration, Exhibition, and Unpolished Time

In this RAI Session, the prolific interdisciplinary artist Cauleen Smith (https://www.cauleensmith.com/) joins us in Oslo during the close of her exhibition The Deep West Assembly. Enjoy this conversation full of laughter and talk of what it is to collaborate and exhibit the world over, rocks, and time.

1h 14m
10/23/2024

On Sovereignty, Academe, and Resistance

In this session, Ro meets with the prolific multimedia artist and scholar Sissel M. Bergh (https://sisselmbergh.net/) for a conversation centering on the land, on sovereignty, and what resistance can look like in academia and elsewhere.

1h 20m
10/16/2024

On Movement and Ancestry, and Movement to Ancestry

In this inaugural RAI Session, Jessica Lauren Elizabeth Taylor (thejessicastudy.com) joins our host Ro Averin for a live recording during our RAI Sessions launch event. We begin with a lively exercise, and then dive in to a rich conversation full of reflection on identity, ancestry, movement, and art.

1h 2m
10/16/2024

Introducing RAI Sessions

In this very first RAI Session, RAI Founder and artist Rafiki joins our host and RAI Director Ro Averin to introduce RAI Sessions, give the RAI backstory, and highlight why exactly there is a need for a podcast and space like that of RAI Sessions and RAI.

1 hr

9 Episodes

A Rafiki Art Initiatives podcast dedicated to uplifting and amplifying BIPOC voices in the art sphere across the Nordics.

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Rafiki Art Initiatives
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2K
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9
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Explicit
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