Episode 01

Brown Atlantis Radio feat. Keyna Eleison

Episode Date: 6 November 2020

Guest: Keyna Eleison

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“In the first episode of Radio Brown Atlantis we speak with Keyna Eleison about Octavia Butler, fik’iri as love, Miriam Makeba, and mestizo, Afro diasporic and South Asian currents of brownness. We talk with smells, colours, joy. And we sing.

Curator. Writer, researcher, heiress Griot and shaman, narrator, singer, ancient chronicler. Master in Art History and specialist in Art History and Architecture from PUC – Rio (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro); Bachelor of Philosophy from UFRJ (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro). Member of the African Heritage Commission for laureation of the Valongo Wharf region as a World Heritage Site (UNESCO). Curator of the 10th. SIART International Biennial, Bolivia. Currently chronicler of Contemporary& magazine, Professor of the Free Learning Program at Parque Lage School of Visual Arts, Rio de Janeiro and Artistic Director of MAM-Rio with Pablo Lafuente.