Rafiki explores the intersections of art, labor, and fame in the season finale of RAI Sessions, revealing the stakes of creative expression in the modern era.
28 Nov 2024
On the Art in and of Diaspora - Pt. II
Ro engages in a fun and lighthearted discussion with Ayesha T. Jordan and Jelsen Lee Innocent about navigating the Norwegian art scene as U.S. Americans and staying grounded in diaspora.
20 Nov 2024
On the Art in and of Diaspora - Pt. I
Artist Ayesha T. Jordan and Jelsen Lee Innocent share their insights on navigating the Norwegian art scene as U.S. Americans and building community in diaspora.
13 Nov 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.
6 Nov 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.
30 Oct 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.
23 Oct 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.
16 Oct 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.
16 Oct 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.
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